White Light Award For Best Lighting Design (Olivier Awards) for Follies, White Light Award For Best Lighting Design (Olivier Awards) for Angels In America, Outstanding Lighting Design (Outer ...

Herman Melville’s 1851 novel Moby-Dick has inspired a lot of art over the decades: Two examples are Mastodon’s 2004 heavy ...

The Metropolitan Opera has revealed its 2025–26 season, the company’s 142nd year, featuring six new productions—three of which are Met premieres—and 12 revivals. Learn more and see how to purchase ...

Also: the psychodramas of Father John Misty, a humble “Henry IV,” the return of the Flamenco Festival, and more.

The Metropolitan Opera will double cast a portion of Verdi and Puccini revivals and shift some contemporary compositions away from Saturdays at the recommendation of a consultant trying to boost the ...

WPI professor Lucy Caplan explores how Black artists helped transform opera in new book "Dreaming in Ensemble." ...

Dimitri Mitropoulos and cast members at a curtain call of the premiere of “Vanessa” at the Metropolitan Opera in 1958.Credit...Metropolitan Opera Archives Supported by By Joshua Barone ...

Mastodon will be part of a talk sponsored by The Metropolitan Opera regarding 'Moby-Dick' and their album 'Leviathan.' ...

The pair met back in 2013 when they were competing in a singing competition in Verona, Italy. She won a prize and he did not.

By Javier C. Hernández Moments before she went onstage in “Aida” at the Metropolitan Opera on a recent night, the soprano Angel Blue was in her dressing room, smiling and blowing kisses on a ...

Paul Plishka, a powerful bass with a ready smile and hearty laugh who sang 1,672 performances at the Metropolitan Opera over 51 years, has died. He was 83. Plishka died Monday at a hospice in ...

I wrote a forty-to-fifty-page treatment, which no one ever saw, of how the opera would unfold. And then I got that down to fifteen pages, which the composer saw, and then ten pages, which the ...