Singers who are charismatic on the opera stage often find solo recitals a daunting prospect.
Two alluring sopranos making house role debuts are on the lineup this week: Nina Stemme sings with a powerful, luxuriant voice and offers an unusually nuanced portrayal of the titl…
Bizet’s “other” major opera returns to the Met stage for the first time in a century.
The Tony Award-winning director Bartlett Sher’s debut production for the Metropolitan Opera was an inventive and animated staging of Rossini’s “The Barber of Sevi…
James Levine conducts his very first production of this operetta by Johann Strauss Jr.
The artist William Kentridge’s much-anticipated production of Berg’s masterpiece, new to the Metropolitan Opera, will go on without the involvement of the company’…
The Rat Pack “Rigoletto” is back; that is, the Metropolitan Opera’s 2013 production of Verdi’s great opera, which zaps the setting from 16th-century Mantua …
One of the most controversial productions of the Peter Gelb era, Luc Bondy’s “Tosca,” returns to the stage for a run that lasts through Dec.
James Levine conducts this revival of Otto Schenk’s traditionally-minded production which features a promising cast of strong Wagnerians, including the tenor Johan Botha as t…
The Metropolitan Opera jumps on the Tudor bandwagon this season, giving Sondra Radvanovsky the chance to sing all three of Donizetti’s so-called “Tudor queens.
The star soprano Anna Netrebko leads the cast in this revival of David McVicar’s production of Verdi’s propulsive drama, which is conducted by Marco Armiliato.
The lavish spectacle of Franco Zeffirelli’s glittering, ornate production of Puccini’s “Turandot” returns to the house on Wednesday for the first performanc…
The Metropolitan Opera opens its season with Verdi’s take on Shakespeare’s taut tragedy in a production signed by Bartlett Sher and led by the charismatic conductor Yan…
James Levine conducts one of his favorite 20th-century operas, Stravinsky’s “The Rake’s Progress,” in this revival of the director Jonathan Miller’s c…
The cast is largely the same as it was at the 2012 premiere of David Alden’s production of Verdi’s uncategorizable work at the Metropolitan Opera: Sondra Radvanovsky, D…
David McVicar’s recent Metropolitan Opera productions, including Verdi’s “Il Trovatore” and Donizetti’s “Anna Bolena” and “Maria Stu…
Plácido Domingo, seemingly determined to prolong his career, has taken on another baritone role: Don Carlo, in the Metropolitan Opera’s revival of Verdi’s “E…
The Metropolitan Opera assembles a powerhouse cast in this revival of Nicholas Hytner’s lurid but taut production of Verdi’s masterpiece.
Every year, opera lovers have a chance to hear the stars of the future during the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions Grand Finals concert.
For its revival of Donizetti’s moody masterpiece, the Metropolitan Opera has summoned a strong cast, led by the potent Russian coloratura soprano Albina Shagimuratova, the ar…
Her voice peerlessly pure and flexible and her presence always warm and sympathetic, the soprano Diana Damrau will make an intriguing combination with the volatile, charismatic ten…
The mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato, whose melting lyricism is as arresting as her vocal fireworks, plays Elena, Walter Scott’s Lady of the Lake, in the Metropolitan Opera’…
Into the Metropolitan Opera’s dull production of Mozart’s classic, originally directed by Michael Grandage, steps a cast led by the conductor Alan Gilbert, making the t…
Anna Netrebko brings Tchaikovsky’s lush fairy tale “Iolanta” to the Metropolitan Opera for the first time, singing the title role of a princess whose blindness is…
The director Bartlett Sher’s phantasmagorical 2009 production of Offenbach’s “Les Contes d’Hoffmann” (“The Tales of Hoffmann”), though som…
After using an operetta, Strauss’s “Die Fledermaus,” to ring in the last new year, the Metropolitan Opera does it again, with Lehar’s classic, set in Paris …
The Metropolitan Opera has revived its holiday staple, Humperdinck’s take on the classic fairy tale.
The German director Willy Decker’s fascinating production of Verdi’s “La Traviata” was the hot ticket of the Salzburg Festival when in was introduced there …
Wagner’s great comedy has long been one of James Levine’s favorite scores, so it’s no surprise he’s including it as he returns to a fuller schedule after a …
Led by the rising maestro Michele Mariotti, the Metropolitan Opera’s revival of Rossini’s classic comedy fields a lively cast, including the mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonar…
The powerful soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek is riveting as Katerina, the oppressed, bored housewife who is the unlikely heroine of this bleakly satirical 1934 opera by Shostakovi…
Shostakovich’s savage opera isn’t a Shakespeare adaptation, but it does feature a bloodthirsty, desperate prima donna.
For a vivid, very traditional staging of this timeless Verdi work, the Metropolitan Opera’s 1988 production by Sonja Frisell supplies sufficient grandeur and a suitably…
Protests have greeted the Metropolitan Opera’s staging of John Adams’s 1991 opera, a stylized, emotionally resonant reflection on the politics of Israel and the Middle …
Julie Taymor’s popular production of this Mozart opera returns with the soprano Ana Durlovski making her house debut as the Queen of the Night.
Julie Taymor’s busy, bustling production of Mozart’s fairy tale opera is peopled with gargantuan puppets and kitelike animals of every sort.
Bizet’s Iberian staple receives 16 performances at the Metropolitan Opera this season, with at least four different casts, two conductors and one production.
This vocally formidable and charismatic German bass has sung 22 roles with the Metropolitan Opera since his 1992 debut.
The director Richard Eyre, a recent Metropolitan Opera regular (“Carmen,” “Werther”), stepped in just last year to stage Mozart’s classic comedy, upda…
American Ballet Theater kicks off its spring season with a gala on Monday night featuring excerpts from the full-length classics to come, including “Cinderella,” …
After more than two years out of action because of various illnesses and accidents, James Levine returned triumphantly to the Metropolitan Opera in September conducting a revival o…
The star mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato sings the heroine in Rossini’s warm comedy for the first time at the Metropolitan Opera in this revival of Cesare Lievi’s cle…
Bellini’s bel canto masterpiece returns to the Metropolitan Opera with an exceptionally fine cast.
Lacking the larger-than-life voices and personalities that usually set it aflame, the Metropolitan Opera’s revival of Giordano’s blood-and-guts verismo standby stays st…
Anthony Minghella’s visually beautiful 2006 production of this Puccini opera returned to the Met in January.
This Otto Schenk production of Strauss’s bittersweet romantic comedy, his last collaboration with the librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal, makes its first return to the Met in o…
The Metropolitan Opera’s lavish and perennially popular Franco Zeffirelli staging of Puccini’s classic returns with two impressive young singers making house debuts: An…
Wojtek is surrounded by people but always alone.
Fancy an evening of masquerade, deception and revenge, culminating in a wild party? Don’t miss Edinburgh Grand Opera’s take on Johann Strauss’s ‘Die Fledermaus’.