When composer Mason Bates approached Michael Chabon about turning his novel “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay” into an opera, he said the writer told him frankly that “opera was not his thing.”.

Anna Netrebko’s lawsuit against the Metropolitan Opera has been narrowed to gender discrimination claims by a federal judge, who agreed to dismiss the star soprano’s allegations of defamation, breach of contract and discrimination because of national origin.

The Metropolitan Opera sold 72% of available tickets this season, up from 66% in 2022-23.

Composer John Adams’ work is returning to the Metropolitan Opera for the first time in a decade in a new staging of his Nativity oratorio “El Nino.”.

The Metropolitan Opera has been forced to stage a semi-staged performance of Puccini’s “Turandot” on after a stage elevator jammed.

The financially struggling Metropolitan Opera will present 18 productions in 2024-25, matching the current season and pandemic-curtailed 2019-20 for the fewest since 14 in strike-shortened 1980-81.

The Los Angeles Opera scrapped plans for the world premiere of Mason Bates’ “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay” this fall because of finances, and the work will instead open with a student cast at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music.

Nearly 10 years after it was first imagined as an opera, “Grounded” is ready to take flight.

Myth #3: If my child doesn’t go to college, my money disappears.

The Metropolitan Opera is broadening its repertoire this season by performing more recent operas alongside classics like “La Boheme.”.

Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen is embarking on her most ambitious season yet.

Opera News will print its final issue in November and be incorporated into Britain-based Opera magazine.

Soprano Anna Netrebko, once among the Metropolitan Opera’s biggest box office draws, has sued the company and general manager Peter Gelb, alleging defamation, breach of contract and other violations.

London’s Metropolitan Police has apologized to the family of private investigator Daniel Morgan, who was killed with an ax 36 years ago in a pub's car park.

London police say an 8-year-old girl is in a life-threatening condition in a hospital following a car crash at an elementary school in Wimbledon that claimed the life of another girl of the same age.

Yannick Nézet-Séguin is remaking the Metropolitan Opera from the bottom up.

A man has been convicted of murder for shooting a British police officer with an antique handgun while the suspect was handcuffed in a cell nearly three years ago.

The Metropolitan Opera saw a slight uptick in ticket sales in its second season following the coronavirus pandemic.

The financially challenged Metropolitan Opera is cutting its schedule to 18 productions next season, matching pandemic-curtailed 2019-20 for the fewest since 14 in the strike-shortened 1980-81 season.

Michigan Education Trust discusses how to make college savings easier.

The Metropolitan Opera, New York Philharmonic and Carnegie Hall are dropping their audience mask requirement starting Oct. 24, ending policies in place since they reopened last year.

It's been quite a year for conductor Keri-Lynn Wilson.

The Metropolitan Opera is expanding its live telecasts to direct-to-home streaming in areas that don’t have movie theater transmissions, among them Brazil and Italy.

New York Mets closer Edwin Díaz might get to hear his wildly popular entrance music played in person next week.

The Metropolitan Opera sold 56% of ticket dollar capacity this season as it returned from a 1 1/2-year absence.

With three huge yellow-and-blue Ukraine flags draped across the front of the house, the Metropolitan Opera held a benefit for the under-attack nation.

Soprano Anna Netrebko withdrew from her future engagements at the Metropolitan Opera rather than repudiate her support for Russian President Vladimir Putin, costing the company one of its top singers and best box-office draws.

Soprano Anna Netrebko added to her list of cancellations, withdrawing from a new production of Wagner’s “Lohengrin” at the Metropolitan Opera that is among seven new stagings the company announced for its 2022-23 season.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is dropping the Sackler name from seven exhibition spaces amid growing outrage over the role the family may have played in the opioid crisis.

Matthew Aucoin’s “Eurydice" opens at the Metropolitan Opera on Tuesday night in the first of seven performances running through Dec. 16.

“Fire Shut Up in My Bones” became the first work by a Black composer in the 138-year history of the Metropolitan Opera as the company presented its first staged performance since March 2000 following a gap caused by the coronavirus.

“Fire Shut Up in My Bones” became the first work by a Black composer in the 138-year history of the Metropolitan Opera as the company presented its first staged performance since March 2020 following a gap caused by the coronavirus.

The Met Opera’s season opens on Monday, and for the first time in its 138-year history it will perform an opera by a Black composer.

With rising tuition costs across the nation, it’s no surprise that families want to get a head start on saving for when their children go off to college.

The Metropolitan Opera returned to its home after an 18-month absence caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

The Metropolitan Opera reached a four-year agreement with the union for its orchestra, the last major deal needed for the company to resume performances following a 1 1/2-year layoff caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

The Metropolitan Opera showed a tax return revealing it is $31 million in the black during the fiscal year that ended last July 31, but the company said the figure included mostly pledges for future years.

Saving for college can seem pretty overwhelming. But it doesn’t have to be so daunting.

Silenced for 14 months by the pandemic and dealing with labor strife, the Metropolitan Opera will make a brief return Sunday.

The Metropolitan Opera reached a tentative agreement on a four-year contract with the American Guild of Musical Artists, one of three major labor deals needed for the New York company to resume performances in September.

FILE - Boston Symphony Orchestra music director James Levine conducts the symphony on its opening night performance at Tanglewood in Lenox, Mass. “No artist in the 137 year history of the Met had as profound an impact as James Levine,” Gelb said in a statement. In one instance, the Met accused Levine of inappropriately touching a musician starting in 1979 and six more times until 1991. The following February, he became principal conductor for the Met’s 1973-74 season, assisting music director Rafael Kubelik, and became music director with the 1976-77 season. Levine was downgraded to music director when he joined the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 2004.

The Metropolitan Operas operating revenue dropped by $25 million to $150 million in the fiscal year ending July 31, a season shortened due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, but the company avoided an operating loss with its fundraising and borrowing. The Met said Thursday that it had a $130 million loss from operations — down from a $154 million loss during the fiscal year that ended July 31, 2019. The fundraising figure after expenses was down from $153 million in the previous season, when the Met finished with a $1.1 million operating loss. Gelb said the Met is exploring the use of outside workers to start construction of sets for next season’s new productions. And from a practical point of view and the other union aspects, there’s no way we could have used Met musicians.”The Met hopes to get federal aid.

NEW YORK – The shuttered Metropolitan Opera said it will lock out its stagehands in Local One of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees at midnight on Monday because it has been unable to negotiate wage cuts during the novel coronavirus pandemic. Gelb estimated the Met has lost $154 million in revenue due to the pandemic. The Met stopped performances March 12 because of the pandemic and ended pay for Local One about two weeks later. Gelb hopes to reopen contracts with Local 802 of American Federation of Musicians, which represents the orchestra, and the American Guild of Musical Artists, which represents the chorus. The deals with those unions expire next summer and the Met has had preliminary meetings with 802.

A painting by American artist Jacob Lawrence that has not been seen in public for 60 years has been found and will soon take its designated place in a 30-piece exhibit of Lawrence's work, officials at the Peabody Essex Museum in Massachusetts said Thursday. A sharp-eyed visitor to the Met had neighbors with a Lawrence painting in their collection and, suspecting it might be part of the series, encouraged the owners to contact the New York museum. The existence of the missing panel was known through a brochure that accompanied the first showing of the series in New York in 1956. The panels were exhibited again in 1958 but had not been seen together as a group until the Peabody Essex Museum's organization of the current exhibit, “Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle." Even with the discovery of panel 16, four panels remain unaccounted for, according to the Peabody Essex Museum.

Met General Manager Peter Gelb said additional losses projected at $54 million raise the total for the company to $154 million since the pandemic started. “The earliest we thought we could schedule it was in the 23-24 season,” Gelb said. “Hamlet” stars Allan Clayton, Brenda Rae and Rod Gilfry in a Neil Armfield staging that opens May 13, 2022. Bart Sher’s staging of Verdi’s “Rigoletto,” which opened in Berlin in June 2019, starts Dec. 31, 2021, with Quinn Kelsey. A Simon Stone staging of Donizetti’s “Lucia di Lammermoor” begins April 23, 2022, with Nadine Sierra and Javier Camarena.

College Savings Month holds no special meaning for Alicia and Barry Pearlman. So while a national spotlight will focus on saving for higher education throughout September, which is College Savings Month, the Pearlmans instead will take comfort in knowing thats what theyve been doing all along. In September, in recognition of College Savings Month, MET is offering a $100 match on the first 300 contracts purchased, as well as waiving the $25 processing fee. We would have her tuition paid for, at least, and wouldnt have to worry about it.The decision also paid off financially. That let the Pearlmans continue with their strategy of investing in college savings on essentially a monthly basis.

FILE - In this Feb. 23, 2020, file photo, the Phillie Phanatic mascot walks on the third-base dugout while the Philadelphia Phillies played the Pittsburgh Pirates in a spring training baseball game in Clearwater, Fla. The fur is back on the field, exclaimed Dave Raymond, the playful mischief maker who originally portrayed the Phanatic. No telling yet whether Mr. Met and Mrs. Met need to keep their distance. When MLB starts the season next month, fans won't be allowed in the ballparks. Thats what we can do to help, even if there arent any fans inside.___More AP MLB: https://apnews.com/MLB and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports

NEW YORK The Metropolitan Opera season is getting shorter, along with some of its shows. Social distancing and grand opera do not mix, Met general manager Peter Gelb said. The pandemic caused the Met to stop its season on March 12, forcing cancellation of the final 58 of 217 originally scheduled performances. There are 130 staged performances of 15 operas in the new schedule, down from the 218 performances of 23 operas that had been announced. This will be the fewest Met staged productions since a low of 14 in the lockout-delayed 1980-81 season, when there were 112 staged performances.

NEW YORK Yannick Nzet-Sguins earned $392,152 during his first portion of his first season as the Metropolitan Opera's music director, about a quarter of what James Levine earned in his last full season as music director emeritus. Levine was music or artistic director from 1976-2016, then became music director emeritus after the 2016-17 season. Nzet-Sguin started as music director in 2018-19, two years ahead of schedule, and conducted three operas. His full-time duties as music director dont begin until next season, Met general manager Peter Gelb said. Nzet-Sguin earned $1,380,667 from the Philadelphia Orchestra, where he also is music director, in the return for the year ending Aug. 31, 2018.

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NEW YORK, NY The Metropolitan Opera will hold a tribute to Jessye Norman on Nov. 24 that celebrates the life and career of the late soprano. Latonia Moore, Eric Owens, Lise Davidsen, J'Nai Bridges and Leah Hawkins are scheduled to perform, the company said Wednesday, along with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, pianist Mark Markham, composer/pianist Damien Sneed, the Met chorus and the Met's "Porgy and Bess" chorus. Speakers will include Anna Deavere Smith, Gloria Steinem and former French Culture Minister Jack Lang. Norman died Sept. 30 at age 74. She was hailed at the Met for her Wagnerian performances as Elisabeth in "Tannhaeuser," Sieglinde in "Die Walkuere" and Kundry in "Parsifal," and for the title role in Strauss' "Ariadne auf Naxos."

(CNN) - The show will not go on at The Metropolitan Opera for Plcido Domingo. "The Metropolitan Opera confirms that Plcido Domingo has agreed to withdraw from all future performances at the Met, effective immediately," the statement from a Met spokesperson said. "The Met and Mr. Domingo are in agreement that he needed to step down. I am grateful to God and the public for what they have allowed me to accomplish here at The Metropolitan opera." He made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera at 27 and performed there for 51 consecutive years.

A Pablo Picasso painting sold by a German Jewish businessman to fund his escape from Nazis should stay in New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, an appeals court has ruled. (CNN) - A Pablo Picasso painting sold by a German Jewish businessman to fund his escape from Nazis should stay in New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, an appeals court has ruled. Laurel Zuckerman, the Leffmann's great-grandniece, argued that her ancestors sold the "masterwork" for $12,000 under duress, therefore voiding the transaction. "Indeed, over seventy years passed between the sale of the painting in 1938 and Zuckerman's demand that the Met return the Painting in 2010," court documents noted. In 2010, the painting had to undergo repair work after a visitor fell onto the painting and caused a 6-inch tear in the canvas.