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 ...
Provoking boos 25 years ago for radical stagings saturated with sex and violence, Calixto Bieito at age 61 has transformed ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
Every year, opera singers from around the world converge on SC's Columbia College's campus with one goal: to make it to the Metropolitan Opera in New York City.
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 ...