He helped build the ad agency BBDO International into a powerhouse before channeling his passion for opera into managing the Met and revitalizing Lincoln Center.

Charles Edwards’s deceptively traditional, exceptionally sung production of Bellini’s “I Puritani” makes space for its stars.

The company’s overstuffed new staging of Bellini’s final work, set during the English Civil War, proves a marvelous vocal ...

Performances are now underway for The Metropolitan Opera's new staging of Vincenzo Bellini’s I Puritani, marking the ...

While we love a classic doomed romance, the Metropolitan Opera is opening the season with something new: Bartlett Sher’s adaptation of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Michael Chabon’s ...

The Metropolitan Opera has released first look videos of their new production of Porgy & Bess. Conducted by Kwamé Ryan, the Gershwins’ great American classic returns to the Met, featuring electrifying ...

Peter Kálmán, Alexey Zhilikhovsky and Aigul Akhmetshina as Bartolo, Figaro and Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia. Photo: Jonathan Tichler/Met Opera The closure of opera houses caused by the COVID-19 ...

The Metropolitan Opera’s credit rating has been downgraded for the second time this year, a sign of deepening financial problems at the nation’s largest performing arts organization. Citing ...

Earlier this month the Metropolitan Opera, America’s largest performing-arts institution, which opens its 2025-26 season on Sunday, announced it had signed a memorandum of understanding with the Saudi ...

Blaming the president is a popular pastime these days, but one of America’s cultural leaders has come up with something really novel in the genre. “Metropolitan Opera season attendance dropped ...