On Oct. 18, the Athena Cinema will once again bring the drama and spectacle of some of the greatest productions of ...

When Leonard Foglia was invited to direct an opera based on Herman Melville’s masterpiece about a white whale, his first reaction was: “Moby-Dick. That’s great!” “Then I ran to a used bookstore and ...

Theis image released by The Metropolitan Opera shows Andrzej Filończyk, left, and Miles Mykkanen during a rehearsal for "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay," in New York on Sept. 10, 2025.

At the Metropolitan Opera, a cramped studio at the back of the hall is a command tower, controlling the show’s elaborate ...

The answer to both was similar: Green exceeded all expectations, and the production is even worse than remembered.

“Hopefully we see the Met thriving artistically, and that we will have created a new artistic foundation that will help it continue to grow,” Metropolitan Opera general manager Peter Gelb told the New ...

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Can the art of opera ever escape the suffocating grip of its magnificent past? Judging from the striking array of contemporary works that reached American stages in the past year, we might be closer ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Streamlining Melville’s sprawling novel, Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s moody, monochromatic 2010 adaptation has come to the Metropolitan Opera. By ...

With a libretto by Gene Scheer and score by Mason Bates, the opera is based on the novel by Michael Chabon. Mykkanen portrays Sammy Clay, a Jewish kid growing up in World War II-era Brooklyn who teams ...