Michael Mayer is directing the Met’s first new production of Verdi’s classic in nearly four decades, aiming for something fresh yet enduring.

Great literary works adapted for the opera stage are not exactly a dime a dozen, but they are plentiful and varied in form and plot. Benjamin Britten's "Billy Budd" based on the novel by Herman ...

MEXICO CITY—A week after Donald Trump’s election victory, two Mexican media executives flew to the Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida so the president-elect could personally thank them for ...

MILWAUKEE; December 9, 2020 – Milwaukee PBS is pleased to announce the hiring ... communities built atop garbage dumps. He has met dignitaries and celebrities from around the world.

And so Barney met a lot of things that we really didn't, as a system, offer yet. HERRERA: So Larry looked at the video's back cover, found the name Sheryl Leach and gave her a call. RIFKIN: And lo and ...

Read the synopsis and program guide from the Metropolitan Opera. From the Met: "The fourth collaboration of Richard Strauss and librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal was in many ways their most ambitious: ...

I can’t remember an opera where there were so few walkouts during such a lengthy, esoteric evening. (Not counting Wagner’s RING, of course.) The story--which the Met describes as a “heavily ...

The Metropolitan Opera’s “La Bohème” celebrated a new season of success thanks to Kensho Watanabe at the podium and a stunning cast of favorites, including Ailyn Pérez, Dmytro Popov, Boris ...

Sharon will need to spend more time in New York City, where earlier this year the Metropolitan Opera announced that Sharon would direct its next "Ring" cycle beginning in 2028. He's set to make ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) wants to cut federal funding to Planned Parenthood and PBS as part of a broader effort to downsize the size of government and reduce spending. During an interview ...

The Metropolitan Opera House in Iowa Falls first opened in 1899. The building was intended to look like a miniature version of the famous “Met” in New York City. While that building (also known as the ...

This Monday at 7 PM, experience the timeless splendor of Handel’s Messiah with The Phoenix Symphony, airing on KNAU Arizona Public Radio, DTV 8.5 Classical Arizona PBS, and Classical ... with ...