Fine-tuned over several years, there are moments of ecstatic lyricism in this piece — and a hair-raising scream ...

Get a first look at the Metropolitan Opera's Antony and Cleopatra, which comes to NYC following runs at San Francisco Opera ...

Live at the Met, the Metropolitan Opera’s award-winning series of live, high definition (HD) opera transmissions to theaters ...

John Adams’s Shakespeare adaptation has been trimmed since its premiere, but still struggles with setting a flood of dense Elizabethan verse.

On May 4, 1950, a collage of photos of the Metropolitan Opera Co. and those attending the performance were published in The ...

There’s an old expression, “A lawyer who defends himself has a fool for a client.” While John Adams didn’t decide to take on ...

Live in HD — the Metropolitan Opera’s award-winning series of live performance transmissions — continues at 1 p.m. Saturday, ...

The final cistern scene, in which a blood-daubed Elza van den Heever as Salome finally kisses the head, is a masterstroke.

Claus Guth’s production of the Strauss opera at the Met emphasizes its heroine’s history of abuse in telling the tale of ...