The Metropolitan Opera’s 2025-26 season of Saturday matinee broadcasts continues at 1 p.m. with a performance from last fall: Donizetti’s comedy "La Fille du Régiment" – "The Daughter ...

The soprano Asmik Grigorian is starring as Tatiana, one of her signature roles, in Tchaikovsky’s classic at the Metropolitan ...

The Metropolitan Opera’s 2025-26 season of Saturday matinee radio broadcasts continues with Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin.

The Metropolitan Opera’s 2025-26 season of Saturday matinee radio broadcasts continues with Bellini’s La Sonnambula.

NEWBURYPORT — Bellini’s “La Sonnambula” is scheduled as the next installment of the Metropolitan Opera’s season of matinee broadcasts at 1 p.m. Saturday on WJOP 96.3 FM Newburyport. The performance ...

Kaija Saariaho’s “Innocence,” one of the most important new operas of this century, finally made it to the Metropolitan Opera on Monday in a superb performance. I have now seen it four times, ...

Despite its beauty and power, the Met’s Innocence had me wanting to run. Photo: Karen Almond/Met Opera For 400 years, opera’s business has been the aestheticization of pain. Wrenching loss, blinding ...

The Passion has inspired endless adaptations, from symphonies to motion pictures to Broadway musicals. This Holy Week, the Metropolitan Opera in New York City hosted a one-night-only contemporary ...

People who care about opera can’t stop talking about the baby, or “that damned baby” as a disgruntled patron put it on the way out of the Metropolitan Opera last week. It’s a directorial conceit in a ...

Lisette Oropesa, the soprano from Louisiana, has become a big, big singer. She is rail thin (a runner and a vegan). But she is a prima donna in New York, Salzburg, and elsewhere. I remember a time ...

Laffont Competition Grand Finals Winners Gabriel Natal-Báez, Elizabeth Hanje, Song Hee Lee, Shannon Crowley, Robert Wente, and Anna Thompson. (Natalie Powers / Met Opera) The Metropolitan Opera has ...

Acoustically that seems to have been a challenge for those I know who were present at the Met, the orchestra supposedly overwhelming the singers, but not in the sound for the screening. And the ...