A new rehearsal video features soprano Lisette Oropesa performing an excerpt from Elvira’s Act II aria in I PURITANI. The ...

After 30 years of shaping history at the Metropolitan Opera, Denyce Graves is stepping into a new chapter on her own terms.

Conductor Marco Armiliato, who should perhaps be christened Signor Butterfly after leading countless performances of the ...

Charles Edwards’s deceptively traditional, exceptionally sung production of Bellini’s “I Puritani” makes space for its stars.

Lisette Oropesa impresses Metropolitan Opera's Peter Gelb with her talent and intellect. Gelb compares her to Beverly Sills, ...

Don José will be portrayed by tenor Michael Fabiano for the first four performances, through November 7. Tenor Matthew Polenzani, who makes his Met role debut, returns for the final four November ...

Joyce DiDonato stars in Dead Man Walking, which kicks off the season on Saturday, October 21 The upcoming season also includes audience favorites Roméo et Juliette and Madama Butterfly, as well as a ...

For more than five years, the Metropolitan Opera has broadcast performances in movie theaters. Now the New York opera company is turning its attention to tablets. Met Opera on Demand is a new ...

A violent and crass triple stab of brass killed the gaiety. A man in black marched through the pews. As light licked his jowls, the police chief Scarpia, played by Bryn Terfel, revealed himself to the ...