Despite encouraging box office figures for the season's first half, the financially strapped Metropolitan Opera scaled back ...

The Metropolitan Opera has revealed its 2026–27 season, featuring five new and 12 repertory productions, a special ...

José van Dam, the celebrated Belgian bass-baritone opera singer who created the title role in Messiaen’s “Saint François d’Assise,” has died at 85. Natsumi Krischer of the Queen ...

For starters, a premium seat to a Portland Opera production can cost upward of $250. But a simple lack of exposure is often more forbidding. What does one wear to the opera, and how does one act once ...

Kaija Saariaho’s “Innocence” was celebrated at its premiere. After her death in 2023, her collaborators continue to travel with it around the world.

After 20 years as a makeup artist for TV and cinema, Noel Jacoboni sees few other options than to leave New York City, where she has been "priced out" by the soaring cost of living. - 'Lack of work' ...

The Metropolitan Opera has been making headlines lately — for all the wrong reasons. It’s not that the country’s oldest continuously operating opera company is seeing revived relevance and eager ...

Isabel Leonard’s journey to becoming one of Opera’s most celebrated figures is one of constant reinvention and passion. As a child, Isabel never imagined she’d be an opera singer. But her natural love ...

Watch Hyona Kim, SeokJong Baek, and Andrzej Filończyk, as Suzuki, Pinkerton, and Sharpless, sing an excerpt from the Act III trio from the Met Opera's production of Madama Butterfly. The title ...

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There’s a new buzzword circulating in the art trade right now: “strategic pause.” Last week, Vienna’s Spark Art Fair said it would take a hiatus. Days earlier, Berlin dealer Mehdi Choukri revealed ...

If one of your New Year’s resolutions was to spend less time on devices and get more “cultured,” the Metropolitan Opera is here to help—even if you don’t find yourself in New York City. On Saturday, ...