I interviewed the multi-faceted performer on her favorite opera, her thoughts on traveling for work, where she grabs a bite ...

Mayer’s weak attempt to address opera’s recent struggles with its history of fetishization of “exotic” cultures adds nothing ...

Someone at the Met should have been giving flu shots (before RFK Junior makes them illegal), because something is obviously ...

Martin Mayer’s shiny, new production, it turns out, is almost every bit as grand and conventional as was Sonja Frisell’s in 1988 SeokJong Baek as Radamès and Angel Blue as Aida in Verdi's Aida (Photo: ...

By Javier C. Hernández Photographs and Video by OK McCausland When the director Michael Mayer set out to stage Verdi’s “Aida” at the Metropolitan Opera, he knew the stakes were high.

Other highlights include festival debuts at the Lanaudière Festival in a concert performance of Aida conducted ... Elīna Garanča. The Met is very grateful to Arizona Opera for releasing Mr ...

Aida is the third performance in a series of eight by the New York Metropolitan Opera that will be live-streamed at the ...

Take your vitamins, folks. There’s something going around. The first indicator was the audience Tuesday night at the Metropolitan Opera, which welcomed the new year with the premiere of Michael ...

Angel Blue, that is. The American soprano, one of the most admired singers of her generation, is headlining the Metropolitan ...

We are meant to understand that the opera’s plot — a tightly conceived ... It’s great to finally have a Met “Aida” that’s over in three hours rather than four. But eliminating the ...

The American soprano, one of the most admired singers of her generation, is headlining the Metropolitan Opera’s first new production of Verdi’s “Aida” in 36 years. Blue, now 40 ...