Earlier this month the Metropolitan Opera, America’s largest performing-arts institution, which opens its 2025-26 season on Sunday, announced it had signed a memorandum of understanding with the Saudi ...

Carla Jablonski and Arthur Lazalde had their first date on March 10, 2020. Days later, as the coronavirus forced cancellations at the Met, they found themselves spending a lot more time together.

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook “Grounded,” the new work that opened the season, has been joined by revivals of three Puccini, Verdi and Offenbach classics. By ...

Derrick Goff, onetime vocal coach at the Metropolitan Opera: “I grew up surrounded by church music, choirs, piano playing. I started taking languages. There’s vocal music in other countries, operas, ...

Condensing Melville’s vast and discursive work into a three-hour opera may have seemed as foolish as Captain Ahab’s increasingly desperate voyage to find the whale that maimed him, but Heggie and ...

In an early scene from "Moby-Dick," the crew of the whaling vessel The Pequod get to know their skipper. His name is Captain Ahab, and they are on a dangerous journey to track down the white whale ...

Why these extravagant gestures to Puccini? While celebrations connected to an artist’s birth are quite common, making a big fuss over the anniversary of their death happens far less frequently. But ...

It was a night of many firsts. On Monday, March 9, the Metropolitan Opera celebrated the premiere of its new production of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde, which marked the company role debut of soprano ...

Mignon Dunn's dramatic vocals made her a popular and mesmerizing star at New York's Metropolitan Opera and on stages around ...