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Review: ‘The Magic Flute’ Directs Its Whimsy Toward the Younger Set

The tween-and-under crowd dressed to impress at the Metropolitan Opera House on Friday, streaming through the lobby in ties, bow ties, blazers, sweater vests,...

Review: Renée Fleming Stars in ‘The Hours’ at the Met Opera

Early in “The Hours,” Puts introduces passing hints of distinctions between the women’s worlds: for 1923, austere piano and a curdled atmosphere of syncopated...

Three Divas Give Voice to ‘The Hours’ at the Met Opera

New York City’s opera event of the fall — an adaptation of “The Hours” having its staged premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in November...

Review: In ‘Lucia’ at the Met, a Modern Woman Comes Undone

By the looks of it, there is little in common between the Metropolitan Opera’s new production of “Lucia di Lammermoor” and the one it...

Valery Gergiev, a Putin Ally, Fired as Chief Conductor in Munich

Valery Gergiev, the star Russian maestro and prominent supporter of President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, was removed Tuesday from his post as chief...

Metropolitan Opera Says It Will Cut Ties With Pro-Putin Artists

The Metropolitan Opera said on Sunday that it would no longer engage with performers or other institutions that have voiced support for President Vladimir...

Review: Amid Omicron, the Met Opera Opens a Weimar ‘Rigoletto’

While a surge of coronavirus cases, driven by the spread of the Omicron variant, has taken a profound toll on live performance in New...

Best Classical Music of 2021

Rarely, though, did either piece deploy the full forces of the orchestra. “Vista” opens with an interplay of oboes; “Innocence,” with just a handful...

A 6-Hour Opera in a Pandemic? The Met Goes for It.

As cultural institutions come back to life this fall after the long pandemic shutdown, many are trying to lure audiences back with shorter shows,...

Jazz and Opera Come Together in ‘Fire Shut Up in My Bones’

“Fire Shut Up in My Bones,” which opened the Metropolitan Opera’s season last week, was a milestone: the company’s first work by a Black...

In Rashid Johnson’s Mosaics, Broken Lives Pieced Together

“The healing process starts with the negotiation of blunt force trauma,” the multidisciplinary artist Rashid Johnson said. “It’s the story of recovery.”After the bruising...

Terence Blanchard Is the Metropolitan Opera’s First Black Composer

In 1919, William Grant Still was in his 20s — many years from the eminence he would later enjoy as the widely acknowledged “dean”...

Review: For 9/11 Tribute, the Met Opera Returns Home

What it meant to be in the audience at the Metropolitan Opera on Saturday evening — for the first indoor performance there since March...

The Met Opera Races to Reopen After Months of Pandemic Silence

Tera Willis was backstage at the Metropolitan Opera, painstakingly adding strand after strand of salt-and-pepper hair to a half-finished wig — one of dozens...

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