The Metropolitan Opera's assistant directors balance tradition and innovation to revive productions like "Aida" while shaping ...
"Aida" has long epitomized opera at its most extravagant -- think sweeping sets, luxurious costumes and even real-live horses ...
There’s something going around. The first indicator was the audience Tuesday night at the Metropolitan Opera, which welcomed the new year with the premiere of Michael Mayer’s new production of ...
By Zachary Woolfe For a long time, people went to the Metropolitan Opera for the horses. They looked to the Met, the country’s largest performing arts institution, for the kind of gaudily ...
The Metropolitan Opera’s show, directed by Michael Mayer and unveiled on New Year’s Eve, was announced as a fit replacement for the large-scale Sonja Frisell staging from 1988: No radical ...
Mexico City's Frida Escobedo, a fast-rising star of the global architecture world, is also helping design Paris' Pompidou ...
After being postponed due to the pandemic in the 2020-21 season, The Met's new production of the opera Aida finally opened as part of the 2024/2025 season with a completely new staging ...
Watch Erin Morley, Rihab Chaieb, Pene Pati, and Luca Salsi sing an excerpt from the Act III quartet in a recent performance. ...