A prominent practitioner of the historically grand productions that were once fashionable at the Met, he was especially well ...

Tenor SeokJong Baek will sing the role of Radamès in upcoming performances Verdi’s Aida, at the Met Opera replacing Piotr Beczała, who has withdrawn due to illness. Learn more!

On Saturday at 1 p.m., hear the Metropolitan Opera's broadcast of Jacques Offenbach's "Les Contes d'Hoffmann" on Classical ...

After being postponed due to the pandemic in the 2020-21 season, The Met's new production of the opera Aida finally opened as ...

Returning to the Monument Arts & Cultural Center, basso cantante Oren Gradus will sing his favorite Broadway show tunes, ...

There’s something going around. The first indicator was the audience Tuesday night at the Metropolitan Opera, which welcomed the new year with the premiere of Michael Mayer’s new production of ...

By Zachary Woolfe For a long time, people went to the Metropolitan Opera for the horses. They looked to the Met, the country’s largest performing arts institution, for the kind of gaudily ...

Starring Angel Blue and Piotr Beczała, Michael Mayer’s new staging of Verdi’s Egyptian classic favors monumentality at nearly ...

For more than seven decades, the Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcasts have brought opera into millions of homes, playing a vital and unparalleled role in the development and appreciation of opera in ...

Angel Blue, that is. The American soprano, one of the most admired singers of her generation, is headlining the Metropolitan Opera’s first new production of Verdi’s “Aida” in 36 years. Blue, now 40, ...

Can the art of opera ever escape the suffocating grip of its magnificent past? Judging from the striking array of contemporary works that reached American stages in the past year, we might be ...

Baritone Quinn Kelsey, left, performs with soprano Angel Blue in a rehearsal for a new production of Verdi's "Aida," opening at the Metropolitan Opera on New Year's Eve. (Ken Howard/Met Opera via ...