I interviewed the multi-faceted performer on her favorite opera, her thoughts on traveling for work, where she grabs a bite ...

Young, aspiring opera singers from around the country will soon have a chance to perform at the Metropolitan Opera Laffont ...

In opera the same role can transform, again and again, with each new interpreter, even over the lifetime of one singer. It’s a reason to keep coming back. At the Metropolitan Opera this season ...

Mayer’s weak attempt to address opera’s recent struggles with its history of fetishization of “exotic” cultures adds nothing ...

BY KIRSTEN BOLTON FOR ARTSPRING On New Year’s Eve, the Metropolitan Opera unveiled its first new production of Verdi’s Aida ...

Starring Angel Blue and Piotr Beczała, Michael Mayer’s new staging of Verdi’s Egyptian classic favors monumentality at nearly ...

Otto Schenk, an actor who became a noted director praised for traditional opera productions and criticized by advocates of ...

Aida is the third performance in a series of eight by the New York Metropolitan Opera that will be live-streamed at the ...

Soprano Adela Zaharia has made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York as Musetta in Puccini’s La Bohème. She appeared in the performance on January 11, and will perform again on January 15, ...

Soprano Angel Blue is fresh off a widely acclaimed run as Margarita Xirgu in Osvaldo Golijov’s Ainadamar, in the opera’s ...