There are few things more quintessentially New York than catching world-class opera at Lincoln Center. But catching it outside, under the stars, without spending a cent? Even better. The Metropolitan ...

Earlier this month the Metropolitan Opera, America’s largest performing-arts institution, which opens its 2025-26 season on Sunday, announced it had signed a memorandum of understanding with the Saudi ...

This Black History Month, we're taking a moment to honor the trailblazers and notable performers at the iconic Metropolitan ...

new video loaded: How the Metropolitan Opera Feeds Its Audiences transcript Opera is an art form that favors extravagant appetites. The marriage of music and cuisine is nowhere more evident than at ...

In an early scene from "Moby-Dick," the crew of the whaling vessel The Pequod get to know their skipper. His name is Captain Ahab, and they are on a dangerous journey to track down the white whale ...

The Metropolitan Opera’s annual Summer HD Festival will return to Lincoln Center Plaza in New York City starting tonight, Friday, August 22, through September 1. LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - DECEMBER 12: ...

Condensing Melville’s vast and discursive work into a three-hour opera may have seemed as foolish as Captain Ahab’s increasingly desperate voyage to find the whale that maimed him, but Heggie and ...

Derrick Goff, onetime vocal coach at the Metropolitan Opera: “I grew up surrounded by church music, choirs, piano playing. I started taking languages. There’s vocal music in other countries, operas, ...

On September 21, the Metropolitan Opera opened its 140th season with a new commission, an operatic adaptation of Michael Chabon’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay ...

Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick has inspired a lot of art over the decades: Two examples are Mastodon's 2004 heavy metal classic Leviathan and, more recently, composer Jake Heggie's opera ...