Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Michael Mayer is directing the Met’s first new production of Verdi’s classic in nearly four decades, aiming for something fresh yet enduring. By ...

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 ...

Tony Award-winning director Michael Mayer brings a new production of Verdi’s grand masterpiece Aida to the Met next month. Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Alexander Soddy conduct. Performances run March 14 - ...

How else can one explain his mystifying concept of framing an engrossing opera of love, war and death in ancient Egypt with the explorations of a silent band of early 20th-century archaeologists?

Angel Blue makes her highly anticipated Met role debut as Aida, the Ethiopian princess torn between love and country. Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin takes the podium of Michael Mayer’s ...

If she has the voice of an angel, and the face of an angel, she must be an Angel. Angel Blue, that is. The American soprano, one of the most admired singers of her generation, is headlining the ...

Music Director Yannick Nezet-Seguin and the Met orchestra did the composer proud, as did the Met chorus under Donald Palumbo. AIDA will be shown on January 25 at 12:30pm ET at cinemas worldwide as ...

A timeless story of love and betrayal against the backdrop of war, a livestream of the opera, “Aida,” performed by the Metropolitan Opera will be shown Jan. 25 at the O’Shaughnessy Center in Whitefish ...

What makes a “grand opera” grand? Well, in part, it’s the sheer number of artists involved, reviewer Page Laws says.