NEW YORK(AP) — Despite encouraging box office figures for the season's first half, the financially strapped Metropolitan Opera scaled back its 2026-27 schedule with its fewest productions in at least ...

Peter Gelb (standing) at a gala honoring Daisy Soros, seated with her son Jeffrey. Photo: Jenny Gorman/Met Opera “It was not a difficult decision,” Metropolitan Opera general manager Peter Gelb says ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by The arrangement would have brought up to $200 million to the Metropolitan Opera, which has suffered a series of financial setbacks. By Adam Nagourney ...

Performances in N.Y.C. The Met has looked to a foreign government, to new strategies, even to outer space, in its scramble to find money to sustain the country’s largest performing arts organization.