The Metropolitan Opera’s 2024-25 season of Saturday matinee broadcasts continues on Feb. 8 with the second opera in the Artist’s Choice series of historic performances curated by today’s ...

By Zachary Woolfe The Metropolitan Opera’s next “Ring” cycle is years ... flows through the four-opera cycle in order, using only Wagner’s notes. The result has some arresting how-did ...

Known for his liquid bass tones and flawless diction, he appeared in 88 roles, many of them comic, over 1,672 performances at the Metropolitan Opera.

of particular note was his classic version of Wagner’s Ring Cycle, complete with dragons and giants, which in the 1980s became a staple of the Metropolitan Opera in New York. “I wanted to tell ...

Leonie Rysanek as Senta and George London as the Dutchman in Wagner's Der Fliegende Hollander (Photo Louis Melancon Met Archives) Saturday February 15th: The Metropolitan Opera, New York presents ...

In his 10th and final year on the ballot, former Mets closer Billy Wagner finally garnered enough votes to take his rightful place in Cooperstown in the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Along with ...