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Although it is not yet fully in order, I'm moving my opera posting to a new corner of the internet: Second Meetings at the Opera . The ...

Well, I certainly wasn't expecting this email: We’re writing to inform you, as a ticket buyer to Berlioz’s La Damnation de Faust, of an...

Dialogues des Carmélites - Metropolitan Opera, 5/3 and 5/8/2019 Leonard, Mattila, Pieczonka, Cargill, Morley, Portillo / Nézet-Séguin I e...

Rigoletto - Metropolitan Opera, 4/26 and 5/1/2019 Gagnidze, Feola, Polenzani, Ivashchenko / Luisotti The house debut of 32-year-old Itali...

Siegfried - Metropolitan Opera, 4/13/2019 Vinke, Goerke, Volle, Siegel, Morley, Cargill, Koniecszny, Belosselskiy / Jordan As astounding ...

Next season at the Met brings a handful of new shows and, more notably, a new schedule point: Sunday afternoon. So far Sunday perfomances l...

Attempts to deflect from an obvious truth by bringing in a familiar red herring narrative have, for generations, been the New York Times...

This year's Met season announcement wasn't even headlined by the season, but by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, currently mid-run of Parsifal...

The world is coming to an end and we have to go full prog before it's too late, or something. Or... maybe not . Meanwhile, I don...

The Exterminating Angel - Metropolitan Opera, 11/14/2017 Kaiser, Echalaz, Luna, Coote, Matthews, Davies, Rice, Gilfry, Bevan, Portillo, An...

Les Contes D'Hoffmann - Metropolitan Opera, 10/4/2017 Grigolo, Erraught, Morley, Hartig, Volkova, Naouri, Mortagne / Debus Les Contes...

Norma - Metropolitan Opera, 9/25 and 10/3/2017 Radvanovsky, DiDonato, Calleja, Rose, Bradley, Diegel / Rizzi Perhaps it looked good via ...

Who would have thought four years ago, as the house opened to the general director's famous favorites making dull nonsense of a Pushkin...

Der Rosenkavalier - Metropolitan Opera, 4/13/2017 Garanča, Fleming, Groissböck, Morley, Polenzani, Brück / Weigle Robert Carsen and his ...

Productions are in order; bold indicates a debut; I may have omitted some one-off cast combos. On the whole: as exciting as this season is...