Review: Singers Come First in the Met Opera’s New ‘Puritani’

Charles Edwards’s deceptively traditional, exceptionally sung production of Bellini’s “I Puritani” makes space for its stars.

At the Met, Toasting With Traditional Puritans on New Year’s Eve

The Metropolitan Opera’s new production of Bellini’s “I Puritani,” directed by Charles Edwards, is “a retro move,” said Peter ...
New York Classical Review

Bellini’s music, fine cast carry the day over directorial excess in Met’s “Puritani”

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

Photos: First Look at the Metropolitan Opera’s New Production of Bellini’s I PURITANI

The Metropolitan Opera has released production photos from its new staging of Vincenzo Bellini’s I Puritani, marking the ...
BroadwayWorld

Video: Brittany Renee And Ryan Speedo Green Sing From PORGY AND BESS At The Metropolitan Opera

A new rehearsal video features soprano Lisette Oropesa performing an excerpt from Elvira’s Act II aria in I PURITANI. The ...
PBS

Great Performances at the Met: Aida

Angel Blue makes her highly anticipated Met role debut as Aida, the Ethiopian princess torn between love and country. Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin takes the podium of Michael Mayer’s ...
PBS

Great Performances at the Met: Tosca

Lise Davidsen stars in the title role alongside Freddie De Tommaso in his company debut as her lover Cavaradossi with Quinn Kelsey as the chief of police Scarpia. Met Music Director Yannick ...
Forbes

Metropolitan Opera’s Annual Summer HD Festival Begins Tonight In New York City

The Metropolitan Opera’s annual Summer HD Festival will return to Lincoln Center Plaza in New York City starting tonight, Friday, August 22, through September 1. LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - DECEMBER 12: ...
Forbes

Met Opera’s Arabella Star Rachel Willis-Sørensen Talks Travel And Opera

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover travel trends and wellness and family travel. Soprano Rachel Willis-Sørensen will star in the title role of Arabella, a ...
Observer

In the Met’s Many Revivals, Sometimes Second Casts Finish First

Peter Kálmán, Alexey Zhilikhovsky and Aigul Akhmetshina as Bartolo, Figaro and Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia. Photo: Jonathan Tichler/Met Opera The closure of opera houses caused by the COVID-19 ...
Al-Monitor

New York's Met Opera unveils Saudi collaboration to boost finances

The Metropolitan Opera will travel to Saudi Arabia to perform under an agreement with the Saudi Music Commission — ANGELA WEISS The Metropolitan Opera in New York announced Wednesday an agreement to ...
Lincoln Journal Star

Metropolitan Opera performances to grace screen at UNL's Ross

Though there might not be any in-person arias for opera lovers to enjoy, there will be a chance to see some of the iconic past performances from New York's Metropolitan Opera on the big screen at the ...