Inside the opening-night celebration of the Metropolitan Opera’s new Tristan und Isolde.

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The Met has looked to a foreign government, to new strategies, even to outer space, in its scramble to find money to sustain ...

The Metropolitan Opera has revealed its 2026–27 season, featuring five new and 12 repertory productions, a special 60th-anniversary gala, and performances of Mahler’s Eighth Symphony conducted by ...

Yuval Sharon, known for his bold approach to opera, is making his Met debut with what he has called “the single hardest work” ...

Opera director Yuval Sharon has said that Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde” is the hardest work in the traditional repertoire to ...

On a chilly December morning, West View Elementary third graders filed into theater No. 5 at the North Hills Cinemark to watch the Metropolitan Opera’s 2006 rebroadcast of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s ...

BROOKLYN HEIGHTS — Four Metropolitan Opera talents – soprano Janai Brugger, tenor Jack Swanson, baritone Benjamin Taylor, and pianist Howard Watkins – will perform a free operatic recital on Saturday, ...

From Dec. 6, 2025, through May 30, 2026, the Saturday Matinee Broadcast Season from the Metropolitan Opera is chock-full of iconic hits and cherished memories. Plus, hear two new stageworks by Mason ...

Editor’s note: This is the first in a three-part series of reported commentaries on the future of opera. NEW YORK — It’s a big house. The Metropolitan Opera seats nearly 4,000 people up into its fifth ...