The MSU opera program has grown in numbers and prestige, allowing Helton to use two casts to produce the operas. “Grapes” ...

"It's been one of the greatest adventures of my life, and I've had a few," Sting said of working on his musical.

Sting will star in a newly adapted version of his musical The Last Ship, which comes to the Metropolitan Opera House for nine ...

Capital Region soprano Savannah Gordon lost her piano accompanist a week before an important recital and had to find a ...

The gold standard in opera and live theater comes to Orcas Island with this season’s “On Screen” series.

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

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

The season opens with Giacomo Puccini's "La bohème" from Jan. 23-26, followed by Georges Bizet's "The Pearl Fishers" from Feb. 20-22. The final opera of the season will be Giuseppe Verdi's powerful ...

While working on his knowing and lively study of the 1981-82 season of the Metropolitan Opera, “A Year at the Met,” the editor and music historian Patrick J. Smith was on hand for the premiere of ...

THE ESCAPIST, as his name suggests, is skilled at getting himself in and out of tricky situations. With his muscles rippling in a blue Spandex suit—and his motif, a key, gleaming on his chest—he ...

Michael Chabon was arriving at the Metropolitan Opera for the first time in his life. “I imagine I will be completely farblondjet” — Yiddish for lost and disoriented — he texted me, shortly before the ...