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Met Opera slashes season to lowest in 60 years amid financial strain

The Metropolitan Opera cut back its 2026-27 season due to a tight budget, even as ticket sales improved slightly

The Independent UK

Met Opera designers order names removed from ‘Carmen’ in dispute over Jaguar

The original production featured Escamillo making a grand entrance in a red Jaguar convertible

The Independent UK

New York’s Met Opera announces ‘necessary’ layoffs and pay cuts

‘Cost-cutting’ announcement comes amid uncertainty over deal struck with Saudi Arabia to perform in Riyadh

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Met Opera attendance dropped in spring as tourism fell, coinciding with immigration crackdown

Metropolitan Opera season attendance dropped slightly following the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown that coincided with a decrease in tourists to New York

The Independent UK

Met uncertain about producing Richard Jones' Ring Cycle

The Met Opera will not start a new production of Wagner’s Ring Cycle in 2025 and is not sure whether it will move ahead with plans to present a staging of the tetralogy by director Richard Jones

The Independent UK

The Woolf pack: Renée Fleming and Joyce DiDonato on turning The Hours into opera

The Pulitzer-prize-winning, Mrs Dalloway-influenced novel about three generations of women, has finally hit the stage. Its stars tell us how they pulled it off

The Guardian - UK

‘It feels like something different’: turning The Hours into an opera

The acclaimed book and Oscar-winning movie, about three women grappling with despair, is making an unusual leap to the stage in New York

The Guardian - US

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