Metropolitan Opera
The Woolf pack: Renée Fleming and Joyce DiDonato on turning The Hours into opera
The Pulitzer-prize-winning, Mrs Dalloway-influenced novel about three generations of women, has finally hit the stage. Its stars tell us how they pulled it off
Imogen Tilden
07, Dec, 2022 @4:00 PM
Classical home listening: Ukrainian music from Nathan Milstein to the Proms
The Odesa-born violinist’s US Armed Forces recordings have aged well; the Met’s recent benefit concert is now an album; and the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall
Fiona Maddocks
30, Jul, 2022 @11:00 AM
Peter Gelb of the New York Met: ‘We’re cancelling Putin, not Pushkin’
The most powerful person in opera has a Zelig-like propensity to always be present when politics have crossed over with classical music – the Russian invasion of Ukraine is no exception
Nicholas Wroe
01, Apr, 2022 @4:36 PM
This man made opera history. Why did I not know him?
Peter Brathwaite knew Bobby (Don’t Worry Be Happy) McFerrin but not his father Robert, the first Black man to sing at the Met. He celebrates a trailblazer and an inspiration
Peter Brathwaite
12, May, 2021 @7:00 AM
James Levine obituary
Acclaimed conductor forced to quit the Metropolitan Opera in New York after a series of sex abuse allegations
Barry Millington
18, Mar, 2021 @1:32 PM
Elijah Moshinsky obituary
Opera director who came to prize directness and psychological insight over deconstruction and irony
Barry Millington
25, Jan, 2021 @5:38 PM
Lockdown listening: classical music and opera to stream at home
With concert halls and opera houses closed, organisations and musicians across the world are livestreaming concerts and opening up their digital archives
Imogen Tilden
29, Jul, 2020 @11:15 AM
The Metropolitan Opera’s At-Home Gala review – thrilling singing, live from the stars’ living-rooms
This technically remarkable event offered performances from more than 40 of the Met’s regular singers – as well as an irresistible peek into their homes
Tim Ashley
26, Apr, 2020 @1:29 PM
New York Metropolitan Opera hosts starry lockdown gala
Jonas Kaufmann, Anna Netrebko, Bryn Terfel and Renée Fleming join the company’s ambitious pan-continental living-room soiree
Imogen Tilden
24, Apr, 2020 @9:00 AM
Opera and classical concerts to watch at home: our critics' picks – week four
Overwhelmed by content to stream? Our critics pick a daily classical highlight to see and hear for free. Today, music to see you through from 13 to 17 April
Andrew Clements,Tim Ashley, Flora Willson and Rian Evans
13, Apr, 2020 @2:50 PM
Classical music: let the Berlin Phil come to you
With concert halls and opera houses closed, we sample the stay-at-home alternatives from Budapest to Dar es Salaam
Nicholas Kenyon
21, Mar, 2020 @12:00 PM
Home listening: Bach, Beethoven and two great violinists
Tremendous new releases from Kati Debretzeni and Leonidas Kavakos, plus 50 years of the Met on BBC Four
Fiona Maddocks
24, Nov, 2019 @5:29 AM
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