Provoking boos 25 years ago for radical stagings saturated with sex and violence, Calixto Bieito at age 61 has transformed ...

For more than seven decades, the Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcasts have brought opera into millions of homes, playing a vital and unparalleled role in the development and appreciation of opera in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

and a production of Beethoven's “Fidelio” at New York's Metropolitan Opera from March 4-15. Cancellations include Sieglinde in Wagner's “Die Walküre” at London's Royal Opera (May 1-17 ...

Not since Wagner’s singing contests in Tannhauser ... The judges were Dastoor; Summers; deputy general manager of the Metropolitan Opera, Michael Heaston; and Martinez. With all the talent ...

He is composing “The Wedding Banquet,” based on Ang Lee’s 1993 movie, to appear at New York's Metropolitan Opera in 2027-28 ... A new production of Wagner’s “Parsifal” directed by ...