Meet acute
Born on this day in 1890 two legendary tenors.
Recent Stories
Once we thought he’d never grow tall as this fence
Our Own Joel Rozen is no longer Our Own, except of course in the most important sense that we will always adore him.
Easily assimilated
I’ve never liked the term “crossover.”
Jump for my love
Soprano Iulia Isaev proved to be in just about every way a lovely Tosca.
In dreams
All these events are simply too big for a one-act opera.
Our heroine
Happy 73rd birthday soprano Diana Soviero.
Get in the ‘Ring’
Wagner’s Ring is an artistic masterpiece that is peerless in its ability to continually reveal layers of musical, theatrical, and philosophical insight
Win a Free Ticket to Opening Night at the Met!
Quinn Kelsey and Lise Davidsen star in the Met's new Macbeth. We're giving away one ticket, so screw your courage to the sticking place and enter now!
The opposite Sox
Joel Puckett and Minnesota Opera hit it out of the park.
Things to come
On this day in 1977 Alban Berg’s Lulu premiered at the Metropolitan Opera.
I’ll take the fall
The days are getting shorter, but you can keep the prattle going this fall’s Talk of the Town! You will, you can, you must join in the discussion about: Great mezzo soprano performances (October),
Gained in translation (November), Teleport me back to… (December).
Everybody dance now
Austin McCormack‘s lascivious choreography outshone a tepid and tedious staging of Saint-Saëns’s old-testament epic.
Die, die my darlings
The year 2020 marks the first staged performances of Turandot on Anna Netrebko‘s schedule. She introduces her complete interpretation at the Bayerische Staatsoper January 28 and 31 and February 3.
Out of the ordinary
On this day in 1951 soprano Victoria de los Angeles made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Marguerite.
Broadcast: Falstaff
A sunny opera for an overcast afternoon: the Met’s broadcast of Falstaff begins at 1:00 PM.
Got to get you into my wife
On this day in 1991 soprano Renée Fleming made her impromptu Metropolitan Opera stage debut as Countess Almaviva.
Five times a lady
On this day in 1956 Lerner and Loewe’s My Fair Lady opened at the Mark Hellinger Theatre, to run 2,717 performances.
Broadcast: Das Rheingold
The Entry of the Cher Public into Valhalla begins at 7:55 PM.
Hair apparent
Gregory Kunde will sing Samson in the March 16, 19, and 23 performances of Saint-Saëns’s Samson et Dalila, replacing Aleksandrs Antonenko, who is ill.
Down Argentine way
“Trove Thursday” drafts a 1960s All-Star team for Verdi’s Il Trovatore broadcast from the Teatro Colón.
Where have all the flowers gone?
On this day in 1991, a new production of Wagner’s Parsifal premiered at the Metropolitan Opera.
It takes a woman
Suddenly in the middle of March 2019 the Metropolitan Opera realized that perhaps a few of the company’s multitudes of stagehands and technicians might be of the feminine persuasion.
Grande dame
Happy 90th birthday mezzo-soprano Rosalind Elias.
