This is a Bellini season at the Metropolitan Opera, which is both a welcome and complex proposition. The composer and his bel ...

Manfred Honeck conducted the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra with Seong-Jin Cho as soloist in Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini Wednesday night at Carnegie Hall. Photo: Chris Lee Manfred ...

Matthew Polenzani in the title role and Etienne Dupuis as Rodrigue in Verdi’s Don Carlos at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Ken Howard/Met Opera The Metropolitan Opera returned from its February hiatus ...

Benjamin Bernheim with admirers in the title role of Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Karen Almond / Met Opera E.T.A. Hoffmann, spinner of bizarre tales in the early ...

Brandon Jovanovich is Captain Ahab in Jake Heggie’s Moby-Dick. Photo: Karen Almond / Met Opera The very concept seems impossible: taking Herman Melville’s novel Moby-Dick—not just one of the greatest ...

Aigul Akhmetshina sang the title role in the Metropolitan Opera’s new production of Bizet’s Carmen Sunday night. Photo: Ken Howard / Met Opera The Metropolitan Opera rang out 2023 with a sold-out gala ...

Asiya Korepanova performed Amy Beach’s Piano Concerto with Karén Hakobyan conducing Pegasus: The Orchestra Saturday night at Merkin Hall. Photo: Emma Kazaryan On Saturday evening, Pegasus: The ...

Renée Fleming and Rod Gilfry were soloists in Kevin Puts’s The Brightess of Light with Brett Mitchell conducting the New York Philharmonic Friday night. Photo: Brandon Patoc Whatever else one says ...

Joyce DiDonato and Ryan McKinny in Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Karen Almond/Met Opera It was a long trek, but Dead Man Walking finally made it the last mile to the ...

Emily D’Angelo stars as Jess in Jeanine Tesori’s Grounded at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Ken Howard / Met Opera “If Odysseus came home every day,” sings fighter pilot Jess to her husband in Jeanine ...

Pierre-Laurent Aimard performed music of Ligeti and others at David Geffen Hall. Photo: Chris Lee 1. Pierre-Laurent Aimard in music of Ligeti, Beethoven, Chopin and Debussy. This concert was a perfect ...

If opera casting were a competitive sport, there would have been something unfair about the new singers the Metropolitan Opera put in front of the audience Saturday night in Le Nozze di Figaro. This ...