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The Metropolitan Opera

  1. opera review
    At the Met, Great Voices and Overwrought Choices in La Forza del DestinoSoprano Lise Davidsen knows what’s needed here; director Mariusz Treliński does not.
    By Justin Davidson
  2. carmen
    Opera Review: A Maybe-Midwestern Carmen With No Ticket OutAn attempt at modernization that diminishes the opera’s timeliness.
    By Justin Davidson
  3. opera review
    Steam Till It Wilts: The Met’s Florencia en el Amazones“Couples converge, turn away, and re-embrace aboard a jungle Love Boat.”
    By Justin Davidson
  4. opera review
    A Magic Flute With a Few Too Many TricksSimon McBurney’s production draws power from some inventive stagecraft but gradually swamps its singers.
    By Justin Davidson
  5. opera review
    In Don Giovanni, Ivo van Hove Can Turn Even Mozart DissonantThe director seems to be fighting his musicians and singers.
    By Justin Davidson
  6. opera review
    A Lohengrin Where You Might Root for the Bad GuyThe Wagner opera returns to the Met for the first time in 17 years.
    By Justin Davidson
  7. opera review
    The Met’s New Fedora Is Almost Luxe, Almost Enough“David McVicar’s new production for the Metropolitan Opera gets partway to the right degree of too much.”
    By Justin Davidson
  8. opera review
    The Met’s Medea Is the Sondra Radvanovsky ShowThe company finally got around to mounting the 1797 opera, one of two blood-soaked Greek myths to open this month.
    By Justin Davidson
  9. opera review
    Brett Dean’s Hamlet Is Too Mad for Its Own GoodYet there is method in ’t.
    By Justin Davidson
  10. opera review
    Don Carlos, a Dark Opera for Glum Times, Brings Plenty of Musical BrillianceDon Carlos’s five hours is well suited for the world at this moment.
    By Justin Davidson
  11. opera review
    The Met Opera’s Eurydice Finds Fun in a Hopeless PlaceThe new production ventures to the underworld and provides an awfully good time.
    By Justin Davidson
  12. fall preview 2021
    18 New Classical Music Performances to Hear This FallJonas Kaufmann sings at Carnegie Hall, Conrad Tao on stage at 92Y, and more.
    By Justin Davidson
  13. covid-19
    The Metropolitan Opera Won’t Return Until Fall 2021The organization canceled the remainder of its 2020–2021 season.
    By Jackson McHenry
  14. opera review
    Streaming Tonight: A Tale of Two Tones in the Met’s La TraviataMichael Mayer’s production makes the sparkly life so unsexy and over-sugared, the last act’s bleakness comes off as refreshingly spare.
    By Justin Davidson
  15. the show must go on
    The Metropolitan Opera Will Stream Operas for Free in Wake of CoronavirusCarmen, La Bohème, and La Traviata are all slated for next week.
    By Chris Murphy
  16. the metropolitan opera
    Christine Goerke Is a Spectacular Wagnerian First DaughterBrünnhilde’s personal branding has never been better.
    By Justin Davidson
  17. opera review
    Opera Review: On the Lightness of Nico Muhly’s Marnie“This deluxe production of a lavish opera rests on such a wispy score.”
    By Justin Davidson
  18. opera review
    Opera Review: Anna Netrebko, an Old-Style Diva, in AidaBut really, the Met Opera needs to eliminate the brownface.
    By Justin Davidson
  19. classical-music review
    Opera Review: The Met Brings Back Samson et Dalila, With Just Enough Fromage“To describe it as gaudy and silly is a compliment, not a complaint.”
    By Justin Davidson
  20. Five More Men Accuse James Levine of Sexual MisconductAccording to a new filing by the Metropolitan Opera, the former conductor has been accused of sexual misconduct spanning 20 years.
    By Corinna Burford
  21. Opera Review: Così Fan Tutte, Kelli O’Hara, and the Long Shadow of James LevineA new production with one of Broadway’s biggest voices, and also a ghost.
    By Justin Davidson
  22. james levine
    James Levine Sues the Met Opera Days After He Was Fired Over Abuse AllegationsThe conductor and former music director is suing the Met for breach of contract and defamation.
    By Tolly Wright
  23. sexual abuse
    Met Opera Fires Conductor James Levine After Sexual-Abuse InvestigationThe Met found credible of Levine’s “sexually abusive and harassing conduct.”
    By Jackson McHenry
  24. Opera Review: Semiramide, a Gorgeous Relic of the 1890s and 1990sAngela Meade glides through one musical triple lutz after another.
    By Justin Davidson
  25. opera review
    Opera Review: A Parsifal Even the Wagner-Phobic Can EnjoyIncluding a long-overdue Met debut.
    By Justin Davidson
  26. opera review
    Opera Review: The Met’s Tosca Is Afraid of Its Own PastThe replacement for a hated 2009 production looks deeper into the past.
    By Justin Davidson
  27. sexual assault
    The Met May Not Survive the James Levine DisgraceHe was the charismatic center holding together a company that was already in financial trouble.
    By Justin Davidson
  28. opera review
    Opera Review: Surrealism Explored in The Exterminating AngelLuis Buñuel’s 1962 satire is adapted for the stage.
    By Justin Davidson
  29. the metropolitan opera
    A Gloomy, Ragey Norma at the Metropolitan Opera’s Opening NightLots of murk and bark.
    By Justin Davidson
  30. Is It Autumn or Spring at the Met and the Philharmonic?As the seasons end, taking stock of two institutions with narrowing paths to the future.
    By Justin Davidson
  31. Opera Review: The Met Gets It All Right in William Kentridge’s LuluMore like this, please.
    By Justin Davidson
  32. Opera Review: Otello Is Back, Without BlackfaceOpening night.
    By Justin Davidson
  33. opera
    Opera Review: A Brief Return for The Rake’s ProgressOut of the warehouse, brilliantly, for a couple of nights.
    By Justin Davidson
  34. Opera Review: Do Not Skip Lady Macbeth of MtsenskWhy doesn’t this production come back more often?
    By Justin Davidson
  35. Macbeth Opens: Does Opera Stardom Still Matter?“Compared to their forebears, today’s divas are dwarf stars, still capable of musical miracles but not of quickening a paparazzo’s pulse.”
    By Justin Davidson
  36. opera
    From One Crisis to the Next at the MetNow that the Met’s next few seasons are assured, Peter Gelb can get back to making sure that opera matters.
    By Justin Davidson
  37. opera
    The Muddled Logic of the Met’s Death of Klinghoffer PullbackIt’s offensive, but apparently not that offensive.
    By Justin Davidson
  38. opera
    Davidson on the Secret Star of the Metropolitan Opera’s ArabellaIt’s not the singer in the title role.
    By Justin Davidson
  39. vulture reads
    Your Sunday Long Reads: Harmony Korine, Peter Gelb, and Amish Romance NovelsAnother excuse to stay indoors.
    By Andre Tartar and Caroline Bankoff
  40. opera
    Justin Davidson on Peter Gelb’s Operatic Tyranny“Gelb has only his own judgment to fall back on, and nobody to tell him when it’s flawed.”
    By Justin Davidson
  41. classical music
    Davidson: The Disappearing James LevineThe current of conviction flowing from him has flickered.
    By Justin Davidson