The Latest Breaking News from Metropolitan Opera

Buying the Marc Chagall murals would come with a big stipulation attached.

Every few years, you’ll hear a familiar refrain: “Opera is dying.”

WCPE says that six contemporary operas being presented this season by the Metropolitan Opera — including ones dealing with violence, race and LGBTQ issues — are "unsuitable" for broadcast.

Yannick Nézet-Séguin will serve as the U.S. Open men’s final’s “opening act” in front of 25,000 fans at Arthur Ashe Stadium.

The Metropolitan Opera marked the 1st year of Russia's war on Ukraine with “A Concert of Remembrance and Hope" that included Canadian mezzo-soprano Emily D’Angelo wearing a skirt with a tally mark for each day of the war

At a cost of more than $1 million, the Metropolitan Opera has built duplicate sets for Francois Girard’s upcoming staging of “Lohengrin” instead of using the Russian set

It’s been announced that South African opera star Pretty Yende will sing at King Charles III’s coronation on 6 May in Westminster Abbey, London. The 37-year-old soprano was elated.

The financially challenged Metropolitan Opera is cutting its schedule to 18 productions next season, matching pandemic-curtailed 2019-20 for the fewest since 14 in the strike-shortened 1980-81 season

The Metropolitan Opera presents For Ukraine: A Concert of Remembrance and Hope, a special concert and live radio broadcast being heard throughout the United States and internationally. Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Mozart’s Requiem, Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, and Silvestrov’s “Prayer for Ukraine” in a performance given for the people…