The Metropolitan Opera has gone dark for a month or so, but its orchestra is free to play—as it did last night in Carnegie Hall. The program was all-Brahms. It is good to be able to see these players ...

On Saturday, January 3 at 1 p.m., hear the Metropolitan Opera's broadcast of "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay" by ...

Musicians in the Vienna Philharmonic play both operatic and symphonic music throughout the year; the Met Orchestra, however, is limited outside the opera house to only a few concerts at the end of ...

The Metropolitan Opera's revival of Tchaikovsky’s *The Queen of Spades*, which opened on Friday, May 23, 2025, offered a visually opulent and musically ambitious evening, though not without its ...

Condensing Melville’s vast and discursive work into a three-hour opera may have seemed as foolish as Captain Ahab’s increasingly desperate voyage to find the whale that maimed him, but Heggie and ...

As the houselights dim at the Metropolitan Opera, the Julie Taymor–directed The Magic Flute transports viewers into a buoyant and kaleidoscopic fairy-tale dreamworld. This abridged, English-language ...