The Latest Breaking News from Peter Gelb

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

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

It's been quite a year for conductor Keri-Lynn Wilson

The Metropolitan Opera opens its new season Tuesday with its first production of “Medea,” a version of the classic Greek tale of a sorceress who murders her children after her lover chooses another woman

The Metropolitan Opera sold 56% of ticket dollar capacity this season as it returned from a 1 1/2-year absence

Call it bel canto in the Rust Belt

Renee Fleming is returning to the Metropolitan Opera in a new work whose subject will be familiar to readers and cinephiles

A very good post, I think, here; a brief excerpt: "It is a great artistic loss for the Met and for opera." Those words from the Metropolitan Opera Manager Peter Gelb makes it sound like soprano Anna Netrebko has died or lost her voice in some accident. In reality, Netrebko…

Soprano Anna Netrebko added to her list of cancellations, withdrawing from a new production of Wagner’s “Lohengrin” at the Metropolitan Opera that is among seven new stagings the company announced for its 2022-23 season