Mauro Carosi: A Visionary of Stage Design

The San Carlo carries an important mark of him, even if few remember it. He was the one who signed the red velvet curtain ...

Coming to the Metropolitan Opera: Sting

After his musical “The Last Ship” failed on Broadway, Sting is bringing a revised version to the Met as the house looks for ...

How the Metropolitan Opera Feeds Its Over-the-Top Appetites

Opera is an art form that favors extravagant appetites. For every dining-obsessed Don Giovanni, Falstaff or Alfredo, there’s ...
BroadwayWorld

Review: Strauss’s ARABELLA Has the Music and the Singers—and Old Vienna—at the Met

For all those operagoers tired of classics set in rodeos, Las Vegas or on a space station (Paris has a BOHEME of that ilk), Otto Schenk’s production for ARABELLA, with stage design by Gunther ...
Town & Country

The Amazing Adventures of the Metropolitan Opera

On September 21, the Metropolitan Opera opened its 140th season with a new commission, an operatic adaptation of Michael Chabon’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay ...
BroadwayWorld

ARABELLA Opens at the Metropolitan Opera In November

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The run will feature Rachel Willis-Sørensen in her role debut as Arabella, ...
Observer

Erin Morley and Lawrence Brownlee Bring ‘Golden Age’ Flair to the Met’s ‘La Fille du Régiment’ Revival

Erin Morley and Lawrence Brownlee in La Fille du Régiment rehearsals. Photo: Jonathan Tichler/Met Opera In April 2020, as a response to COVID-19 closing opera houses, the Met put together a live ...
CBC.ca

Sandra Oh to make her Metropolitan Opera debut

Sandra Oh will make her Metropolitan Opera debut on Oct. 17, playing the Duchess of Krakenthorp in La fille du régiment. The production will run from Oct. 17 to Nov. 12 at the Met in New York. In a ...
Observer

Review: Opera Philadelphia’s Snappy Rare Rossini Without Stars and the Met’s Dour New ‘La Sonnambula’

Emilie Kealani and Minghao Liu as Corinna and Belfiore. Photo: Steven Pisano Revivals across the globe followed, including a 1999 production by New York City Opera, but Viaggio didn’t actively ...
News24

Sandra Oh trades the small screen for the grand stage of the Met Opera

Sandra Oh, known for her TV roles in Grey’s Anatomy and Killing Eve, makes her operatic debut at the Metropolitan Opera in Donizetti’s La Fille du Régiment. Playing the spoken role of the Duchess of ...

A dark folk opera shelved by COVID-19 gets a fresh premiere, courtesy of Northwestern students

Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek’s chamber opera “Proving Up” is set on the Nebraska frontier, but it takes aim at the hollow ...
Daily Journal

Sandra Oh trades the small screen for the grand stage of the Met Opera

Best known for her acclaimed TV roles in "Grey's Anatomy" and "Killing Eve," Sandra Oh says she finds herself "amazed" by the magic of the stage as she readies for her operatic debut in New York on ...