A messy new I puritani at the Met is a historic and historical disappointment.
Tell us: What was the best of 2025?
Parterre Box concludes the thrilling first year of Talk of the Town by inviting your lightning rod opinions on several more categories of operatic argumentation.
Ahead of a new production opening at the Met on New Year’s Eve, director Charles Edwards and Lisette Oropesa discuss creating an I puritani that is stark and serious — and sings.
Second casts in Don Giovanni and Turandot at the Metropolitan Opera offer mixed blessings.
Buoyed by a strong cast, The Metropolitan Opera continues its autumn bel canto streak with a winning revival of Donizetti’s La fille du regiment.
A new production of La sonnambula at the Metropolitan Opera is musically charming if dramatically confounding.
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay was, somehow, a fun night at the opera—just not one that felt specifically operatic.
When Angela Meade and Michael Fabiano first sang Lucia together as students at AVA few would have predicted that they would go on to sing Turandot 16 years later.
The final Saturday Matinee Broadcast of the 2024-25 season, live from New York
The final live weeknight broadcast of the 2024-25 season from New York
A live broadcast from New York
The Met’s mostly successful revivals of The Queen of Spades and La bohème showcase the returns of Sonya Yoncheva and Corinne Winters
John Adams‘s newest opera in a live broadcast from New York
A live broadcast from New York
Buoyed by a cast of emerging stars, the Metropolitan Opera’s revival of Il Barbiere di Siviglia asserted a key trait of this ubiquitous buffo: it is a young person’s opera.
An impressive cast blurs binaries as John Adams‘s ambitious Antony and Cleopatra arrives at the Met
A live broadcast from New York
An uneven new cast can’t dim the glow of Richard Eyre‘s incisive Le nozze di Figaro at the Met
Elza van den Heever and Peter Mattei (and the stage elevator) elevate an assertive, if not definitive, new Salome at the Met
A performance recorded last fall in New York
Elina Garanca is back at the Met for the first time since 2020 — her Amneris is, in a word, sensational.
