The Met Opera Announces First-Ever Met Orchestra Asia Tour
The Metropolitan Opera has announced its first-ever Met Orchestra Asia Tour this summer, June 19–30, immediately following its annual June residency at Carnegie Hall. Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the Met's Jeanette Lerman-Neubauer Music Director, will conduct the Met Orchestra, with guest artists soprano Lisette Oropesa, mezzo-soprano Elīna Garanča, and bass-baritone Christian Van Horn.
Met Opera Taps Endowment Fund Amid Financial Challenges
In response to the unprecedented challenges faced by the performing arts sector, particularly during and after the pandemic, the Metropolitan Opera has announced a series of strategic measures to ensure its continued operation and artistic excellence.
Review: Met's First TANNHAUSER of the Season Interrupted by Demonstrators
All that was missing were shouts of “food fight!” to turn last night’s performance of Richard Wagner’s TANNHAUSER—the first of the Met’s season—into a version of National Lampoon’s Night at the Opera, as climate activists interrupted the house debut of the great baritone Christian Gerhaher, and audience members traded barbs with the demonstrators, threatening the company’s determination that “the show must go on.”
Lise Davidsen Comes to BroadStage in September
With a unique and powerful voice that has been described as 'one-in-a-million,' soprano Lise Davidsen makes her much-anticipated BroadStage debut as part of the Celebrity Opera Recital Series on Sunday, September 17, 2023 at 7:30pm at the Eli and Edythe Broad Stage at the Santa Monica Performing Arts Center.