NEW YORK (AP) — The Metropolitan Opera was forced to stage a semi-staged performance of Puccini's "Turandot" on Wednesday night after a stage elevator jammed. Met general manager Peter Gelb made ...

Peter Gelb thinks “experimental” music leads to dwindling audiences, but performances around the country suggest otherwise.

In 1988, the program title was changed to The Metropolitan Opera Presents, to reflect the fact that the performances were now taped prior to broadcast. Live from the Met functioned as a supplement ...

Angel Blue, who was recently named Classical Music's "Vocalist of the Year," is set to perform the title role in "Aida" at ...

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, ...

But when you describe Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s most opulent creation, which opened on Friday in one of its infrequent, glittering revivals at the Metropolitan Opera ...

Carrie Lazarus presents her show Extraordinary. Included in the show is an interview with Jim Ridlon who remarks on his ...

Jolie plays the superstar soprano Maria Callas in the new movie “Maria.” We went to the Metropolitan Opera with her and the director Pablo Larraín. Jolie plays the superstar soprano Maria ...

The long-awaited revival of Herbert Wernicke’s production, which premiered in 2001 and has not appeared at the Metropolitan Opera House since the 2013-2014 season, bears out this difficulty.

Angel Blue, that is. The American soprano, one of the most admired singers of her generation, is headlining the Metropolitan Opera’s first new production of Verdi’s “Aida” in 36 years.