“It is a great artistic loss for the Met and for opera,” said Met General Manager Peter Gelb.
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In a busy flurry of Instagram posts earlier today, Anna Netrebko announced a temporary withdrawal from her performing career.
The Metropolitan Opera’s 2022-2023 season will offer seven new productions including the world-premiere staging of The Hours and the company premieres of Champion and Medea.
Tantalizing tenor Michael Fabiano adds a new role to his repertoire barely five weeks from today.
“The design of the Met’s new production [of Lucia di Lammermoor] by Simon Stone suggests a present-day American Rust Belt, an area once prosperous but now fallen into decline and neglect.”
Jamie Barton will sing Eboli in the Met’s new production of the original five-act French version of Verdi’s Don Carlos, replacing Elina Garanca, who has withdrawn.
A new collective bargaining agreement between the Metropolitan Opera and its orchestra, the last of the Met’s three largest unions to reach an agreement, was ratified today.
Jennifer Hudson “honors” Aretha Franklin by singing “Nessun dorma.”
La Cieca has received a copy of a message, apparently from the Metropolitan Opera, announcing the departure of Diane Zola from the company.
At long last the plans for the Met’s 2017 New Year’s Eve Gala are to be realized.
Awesome, astounding, Asiatic Anna Netrebko sings Puccini and Puccini/Alfano at the Arena di Verona.
Should the new John Corigliano / Mark Adamo opera The Lord of Cries be renamed The Lord of Crisis?
As the Met gears up for its first performances in a year and a half. the company is already canceling shows in the early fall.
Jamie Barton makes her highly-anticipated debut as Carmen opposite the legendary Stephanie Blythe as her alter ego Blythely Oratonio. As Don José!
Superstar diva on Twitter and everywhere else Karita Mattila has just unveiled her next project!
The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra has accepted a deal to receive bridge pay in return for returning to the bargaining table.
The eventually reopened Metropolitan Opera promises a swift return to its status quo ante as a farm team for the English National Opera, sharing the London company’s new Ring cycle directed by vieillard terrible Richard Jones.
The Met Orchestra will stream a concert including the virtual participation of Angela Gheorghiu live from Bucharest.
The Met is instituting a lockout of its Local One–represented employees (stagehands), effective at midnight tonight.
“The Met Stars Live in Concert performance featuring soprano Sonya Yoncheva, which was rescheduled for this Saturday, November 28, has now been moved to Saturday, February 27, 2021, as Ms. Yoncheva is still ill (with a non-Covid illness).” Thus speaks the Met’s press department.
“Pèlerin Deslieux had arrived to escort her to Carnegie Hall. They would walk over together. ‘There’s a queue from here to there!’ he told her.”
The Met settled with disgraced former music director James Levine for a cool $3.5 million.
Tonight’s performance of Don Carlo at the Bolshoi Opera has been canceled because bass Ildar Abdrazakov has tested positive for COVID-19.
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