Anthony Roth Costanzo rolled the dice on a novel idea. Faced with weak ticket sales, past debt, and a shaky financial outlook ...

Mozart’s overture was spirited but loose—a little sloppy. The rest of the opera was spirited too, and seldom sloppy. In ...

Augustus Juilliard’s money, the public was informed, had saved the life of the Metropolitan Opera Company. Author-Musician John Erskine, in his capacity as president of the Juilliard School of ...

The Metropolitan Opera Association had plans to relocate to Lincoln Center and feared competition from a new opera company taking over the existing location. The history of this early opera house ...

It’s the Metropolitan Opera premiere of the 2010 adaptation of Herman Melville’s 19th century classic story. Composer Jake Heggie did the music, collaborating with librettist Gene Scheer on ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The Great White Whale has been waiting in the wings of the Metropolitan Opera for years, and is still only ...