The bass-baritone Bryn Terfel returned to the Met for the first time in 13 years, alongside Sondra Radvanovsky, one of the ...
Starring Angel Blue and Piotr Beczała, Michael Mayer’s new staging of Verdi’s Egyptian classic favors monumentality at nearly ...
Mayer’s weak attempt to address opera’s recent struggles with its history of fetishization of “exotic” cultures adds nothing ...
Michael Mayer directs Verdi’s classic as an archaeologist’s discovery, featuring the shining soprano Angel Blue.
The first indicator was the audience Tuesday night at the Metropolitan Opera, which welcomed the new year with the premiere ...
Angel Blue, that is. The American soprano, one of the most admired singers of her generation, is headlining the Metropolitan ...
Romantic, fantastic and, in the end, humanly tragic, Jacques Offenbach’s opera “The Tales of Hoffman” turned out to be an apt ...
After being postponed due to the pandemic in the 2020-21 season, The Met's new production of the opera Aida finally opened as ...
That figure is Peter Gelb, the general manager of the Met. In an opinion essay published in the Times in November, Gelb argues that opera had “turned inward” in the second half of the ...
Soprano Angel Blue is fresh off a widely acclaimed run as Margarita Xirgu in Osvaldo Golijov’s Ainadamar, in the opera’s ...
Someone at the Met should have been giving flu shots (before RFK Junior makes them illegal), because something is obviously ...