Influencers Get Their Night at the Opera as the Met Courts New Fans

The Metropolitan Opera has invited 70 influencers to help convince a younger, online audience that opera isn’t scary or even ...
WQXR

Handel at the Met

The Metropolitan Opera’s 2025-26 season of Saturday matinee radio broadcasts continues with a special compilation titled ...
BroadwayWorld

The Metropolitan Opera Reveals 2025-26 Season Featuring Met Premieres and More

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. This season, the Met continues to ...

The Met’s ‘Magic Flute’ Courts Young Hearts (With a ‘6-7’ to Boot)

Julie Taymor’s abridged production of Mozart’s opera has been trimmed down to 90 minutes as the Metropolitan Opera bids to ...
BroadwayWorld

The Metropolitan Opera’s Summer HD Festival Returns to Lincoln Center Plaza in August

The Metropolitan Opera’s annual Summer HD Festival returns to Lincoln Center Plaza, Friday, August 22, through Monday, September 1. The free festival features ten screenings from the Met’s celebrated ...
Observer

True Events Become History and History Becomes Art in the Met’s ‘Ainadamar’

Deborah Colker’s production has a deft and beautiful visual poetry, pouring moving bodies and striking vignettes into the spaces around the libretto. Photo: Marty Sohl / Met Opera “Oh, the dead,” the ...
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Critic's notebook: At the Metropolitan Opera, an 'Aida' production rooted in the past says a lot about the genre's future

Editor’s note: This is the first in a three-part series of reported commentaries on the future of opera. NEW YORK — It’s a big house. The Metropolitan Opera seats nearly 4,000 people up into its fifth ...