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NEW YORK—Conductor James Levine, who ruled over the Metropolitan Opera for more than four decades before being eased aside when his health declined and then was fired for sexual improprieties, ...

Opera Tenor Marcello Giordani passed away on Oct. 5 aged 56, according to his obituary. 360NG reported that ...

Richard Tucker began his career at the Metropolitan Opera in 1945, before it even came to its Lincoln ...

NEW YORK—Jules Massenet’s 1899 fairy tale opera “Cendrillon” (Cinderella) finally arrived at the Metropolitan Opera. It was clearly ...

NEW YORK—In Act 2, scene 2 of Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet,” the heroine famously asks, “Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore ...

NEW YORK—What is the most spectacular set at The Metropolitan Opera this season? As in many prior years, ...

NEW YORK—Where can you see sword swallowers, contortionists, bearded ladies, and snake handlers? The surprising answer is on ...

NEW YORK—Based on Victorien Sardou’s play, a vehicle for Sarah Bernhardt, Giacomo Puccini’s “Tosca” is a melodrama of ...

With Mozart’s music, Harry Bicket in the pit, and a top-flight cast, Mozart’s comic masterpiece, “Le nozze di ...

NEW YORK—The death at age 54 of Anthony Minghella, the director of "The English Patient," "The Talented Mr. ...

Jacques Offenbach’s “Les Contes d’Hoffmann” (The Tales of Hoffmann) is back at the Metropolitan Opera in a sparkling ...

Julie Taymor’s spectacular production of “Die Zauberflöte” (The Magic Flute) is back at the Metropolitan Opera for a ...

NEW YORK—The act of starring at the Metropolitan Opera on the opening night of the season is one ...

Franco Alfano's "Cyrano de Bergerac" is a minor opera, but with Roberto Alagna in the title role, a ...

NEW YORK—The success of any production of Jules Massenet's "Werther," the opera based on Goethe's novel "The Sorrows ...

Gioachino Rossini's 1816 comic opera "The Barber of Seville" has returned to the Metropolitan Opera in Bartlett Sher's ...

This year, the Met brought back Julie Taymor's 2004 production of "The Magic Flute"--a stripped-down, 100-minute version of ...

Gioachino Rossini's epic opera, "Guillaume Tell" (William Tell) is back at the Metropolitan Opera for the first time ...

Few people would have expected Russell Thomas to become a leading man in opera. Nobody in his family ...

With a colorful set, visual comedy, and bouncy score, “L’Italiana in Algeri” has been a crowd-pleaser at the ...

NEW YORK—The Metropolitan Opera opened its fall season with a new production of Richard Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde." ...

The CD “War, Peace, Love and Sorrow” is another excellent example of Hvorostovsky’s art and a reminder of ...

Now at the Metropolitan Opera and featuring a top-flight cast with Esa-Pekka Salonen conducting, “Elektra” truly electrifies.

Mozart’s “Die Entführung aus dem Serail” (Abduction from the Seraglio) is being revived at the Metropolitan Opera under ...

Now 75 years old, Plácido Domingo is again tackling the demanding part of Simon Boccanegra at the Met ...

Sondra Radvanovsky again triumphed in the last work of Donizetti's three Tudor Queen trilogy, "Roberto Devereux."

This season, the Metropolitan Opera has been performing a number of the works of Gaetano Donizetti and now ...