Die Frau Ohne Schatten,” a dense ode to fertility, may not sound appealing at first. But in this performance, the fairy tale ...
Die Frau ohne Schatten begins after happily-ever-after and ends as another ever-after begins—essentially, it’s an opera about ...
Even if you’re not a fan of classical music, you’ve probably heard the voice of Maria Callas. As opera’s defining diva and ...
Even on a regular night, the unofficial Met dress code calls for operatic flair. A New Year’s Eve gala ups the ante. Since ...
Die Frau ohne Schatten is Richard Strauss’s most ambitious work, requiring enormous vocal and orchestral forces as well as ...
The Pulitzer-winning composer and conductor sits down with Q’s Tom Power to look back on his decades-long career in classical ...
Nézét-Séguin takes a thoroughly veristic approach in the pit. Lise Davidsen's marmoreal nobility may not be perfectly suited ...
Peter Gelb, the general manager of New York’s Metropolitan Opera, has a problem on his hands: even if the Met sold each of its 3,800 seats, for every night of the season, the ticket sales would ...
There may be more operatic talent in classical music now than there has ever been, so the major issue comes down to ...
UTICA — As part of its 2024–25 season, Munson will continue to show the Metropolitan Opera’s award-winning The Met: Live in ...
Daniele Rustioni will become just the third principal guest conductor of the Metropolitan Opera in its nearly century-and-a-half history, leading at least two productions each season starting in ...