The Met had assembled a very capable cast, too. In the title role was Michael Sumuel, a bass-baritone from Texas. He has a ...

Joana Mallwitz, one of Germany’s fastest rising stars, makes her Metropolitan Opera debut in “The Marriage of Figaro” on Monday.

I was overly aware of my response the night I saw Moby-Dick at the Met. I don’t know the first thing about opera and, more worryingly, I’ve become known to friends as a person who won’t stop talking ...

Opera lovers won't need to head to New York City to hear world-class voices this March. On Saturday, March 29, 2025, at 7:30 ...

(Credit: Marty Sohl / Met Opera) The Metropolitan Opera’s 2023–24 Live in HD season will continue with the live transmission of Verdi’s “Nabucco.” The broadcast, which will take place on Jan. 6, ...

Billy Corgan, the bold rocker of Smashing Pumpkins fame, is entering his opera era. Corgan will stage a world-premiere show at Lyric Opera of Chicago in November. The new project, announced ...

The Metropolitan Police has launched an investigation into suspended Reform MP Rupert Lowe. It comes after the party revealed they had referred him to police and stripped him of the whip on Friday ...

The Department of Climate Change and Meteorological Services (MET) says Malawians are still in danger after Cyclone Jude made a landfall in Mozambique yesterday but with minimal impact on Malawi as of ...

Jürgen Flimm's 25-year-old production of Beethoven's Fidelio has returned to the Met for five performances ... who generated plenty of heat from there until the opera’s close. Her Florestan, David ...

It has been 20 years since Sarasota Opera last presented Giuseppe Verdi’s “Stiffelio” as part of its 28-year Verdi Cycle of performing just about every note written by the composer.

Credit: Wikimedia Commons I went to the Metropolitan Opera the other night to see the new opera, Moby-Dick. It was a black-tie gala, and the performance was tremendous, but the evening was somber.

Jake Heggie’s 2010 operatic treatment certainly took up a lot of aural and visual space at its Metropolitan Opera premiere on Monday, but there was an emptiness at its heart.