The Metropolitan Opera cut back its 2026-27 season due to a tight budget, even as ticket sales improved slightly.

Is this town big enough for two productions of "Carmen" on the same weekend? Or are the Florentine Opera and Milwaukee Ballet headed for Carmaggedon? We will find out the weekend of May 16-18, when ...

Watch the official trailer for INNOCENCE at The Metropolitan Opera, Kaija Saariaho’s final opera, conducted by Susanna Mälkki ...

Teatro Lirico D'Europa will present the opera CARMEN at the Jacksonville Center for the Performing Arts this Sunday, February 1, 2026 at 3pm. Set in Seville around the year 1830, Carmen tells a ...

An opera in four acts, the story of Carmen is taken from Prosper Mérimée’s novella and turned into a libretto written by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy. Premiered in 1875 at the Opéra-Comique in ...

How bad is the Metropolitan Opera doing financially? Many are wondering, given that it recently floated selling its famous Chagalls. The first loan originated in 2009, when the Met was $71 million in ...

The lyrical poems and lively jazz music of the Harlem Renaissance have always been a source of comfort for Taylor Burgess. For the soprano singer from Wading River, the era is a reminder of how ...

Mr. Scorca served as the president and chief executive of Opera America, a service organization, from 1990 to 2025. When the Washington National Opera announced its decision to leave the Kennedy ...

The coronation bells are swift and brutal, appropriate since the crowned Boris is trouble at beginning and end of the scene by visions of the heir to the throne with spinning top he had murdered.

Created by composer Jake Heggie and librettist Gene Scheer with director and choreographer Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, "Intelligence" was recorded live during the opera’s world premiere run at the Wortham ...

In the opening scene of Complications in Sue—a new commission by Opera Philadelphia beginning its four-night run this evening at the city’s Academy of Music—four solemn figures push a vintage black ...