The Metropolitan Opera has invited 70 influencers to help convince a younger, online audience that opera isn’t scary or even ...

The Metropolitan Opera has gone dark for a month or so, but its orchestra is free to play—as it did last night in Carnegie Hall. The program was all-Brahms. It is good to be able to see these players ...

The Metropolitan Opera has revealed its 2025–26 season, the company’s 142nd year, featuring six new productions—three of which are Met premieres—and 12 revivals. This season, the Met continues to ...

Musicians in the Vienna Philharmonic play both operatic and symphonic music throughout the year; the Met Orchestra, however, is limited outside the opera house to only a few concerts at the end of ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Critic’s notebook A concert performance of “Vanessa” freshly argued for the vitality of a work that deserves to be staged but languishes with its midcentury peers. Dimitri ...

On this week’s episode of Economic Update, Professor Wolff delivers updates on the political theater, of the U.S./Iran hostilities, the political shock of Zohran Mamdani’s Democratic primary win in ...

The Metropolitan Opera’s 2025-26 season of matinee broadcasts continues Saturday with a live broadcast of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute. This holiday version of Julie Taymor’s popular production is ...