In a startling change of schedule, the new Bart Sher co-production between Staatsoper Berlin and the Met will no longer be Rigoletto. Instead, the two companies are programming Ken Ludwig‘s classic Lend Me a Tenor, as pictured above. (Photo: Brinkhoff/ Mögenberg)
For more than 40 years, the magnificent opening image from Francis Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites seen above has served as an icon for the Met—and not only to advertise this opera. Read more »
The final streaming broadcast of the Met season is beginning!
New York City Opera presents the world premiere of Iain Bell and Mark Campbell’s Stonewall. Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the uprising, Stonewall is a moving and explosive new American opera that captures the rage, grit, humor and, finally, hope of the LGBTQ+ community’s uprising in a Greenwich Village dance club on one hot night in June 1969. Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Rose Theater, June 21-28. Read more »
The Metropolitan Opera has named soprano Lisette Oropesa as the winner of the 14th annual Beverly Sills Artist Award. Read more »
It was quite a pleasure—a privilege, really—to see John Dexter’s legendary production of Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites.
The season premiere of the meditative Poulenc opera begins tonight at 7:25 pm.
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