(Photo: Ken Howard / Met Opera) Metropolitan Opera’s season premiere of Ivo van Hove’s production of Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” took place on September 24, 2025. Van Hove’s production originally debuted at Ópera National de Paris in 2019 at the Palais Garnier and OperaWire reviewed the performance in detail, specifically highlighting the set design and overall aesthetic. It is also important {…}
The Franco Zeffirelli production of “Turandot” at the Metropolitan Opera is iconic and a known quantity at this juncture, so I won’t be rehashing much about it here. But in watching the Sept. 30, 2025 performance of the Puccini opera, I was reminded about its enduring power. Part of that mainly came from the audience with whom I witnessed the {…}
The Metropolitan Opera has announced a cast change for “Don Giovanni.” The company said that Kathleen O’Mara will sing the role of Donna Anna on Oct. 20 and 25, replacing Federica Lombardi. O’Mara took to social media to announce the news and said, “Surprise!!! I’m am so excited to share that I will be stepping in to sing Donna Anna {…}
(Photo by Fay Fox) Jennifer Rowley is set to perform at the Metropolitan Opera during Andrea Bocelli’s special evening on Oct. 5, 2025. The soprano took to social media and said, “I am overjoyed and truly thrilled to announce that I will be a guest artist on Andrea Bocelli Italian opera favorites concert at the Met Opera on October 5th! {…}
(Credit: Evan Zimmerman / Met Opera) An immigrant and a gay man join forces to create art that defeats Nazis. While this simple sentence reduces all the complexities at play in “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay,” it also gets to the core of a battle that permeates to this day and provides us with the kind of hope {…}
(Credit: Emily Shur) When the Metropolitan Opera announced that Emmy Award–winning actress Sandra Oh would make her debut this season as the Duchess of Krakenthorp in Donizetti’s “La Fille du Régiment,” my first thought was: finally. Finally, the Met has made a casting decision that is not just exciting but relevant. The Duchess of Krakenthorp is a speaking role, traditionally {…}
(Credit: Jonathan Tichler / Met Opera) The Metropolitan Opera has announced “Behind the Seams: Costuming the Met,” the largest costume exhibition in the company’s history, on view from Sept. 21, 2025, through June 6, 2026. The exhibition will offer a rare opportunity to step inside the world of operatic costume design, tracing the evolution of the company’s early reliance on {…}
The Metropolitan Opera has announced that Sandra Oh has joined the cast of “La Fille du Régiment.” The company said that Oh is coming off her acclaimed performances in Shakespeare in the Park’s “Twelfth Night” and will make her Met debut as the Duchess of Krakenthorp in Laurent Pelly’s production. Oh is a Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award–winning {…}
(Credit: Jonathan Tichler / Met Opera) Matthew Christopher Pietras, the fake millionaire who tricked numerous arts organizations like the Metropolitan Opera, died by suicide in May. The New York Times is reporting that the city’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner disclosed the cause of Pietras’ death. According to the report, the medical examiner’s office said that Pietras had died {…}
Works & Process is set to present The Metropolitan Opera’s “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay” on Sept. 8, 2025 at Guggenheim New York in the Peter B. Lewis Theater. The evening will showcase an advance look at the new adaptation of Michael Chabon’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay,” which will open the Metropolitan {…}
On the heels of the backlash from the new deal with Saudi Arabia and the Metropolitan Opera, it has been revealed the company is looking to license its intellectual property and name its building. According to the Agence France-Presse, “Gelb is actively exploring other sources of raising funds including licensing agreements of its intellectual property, as well as naming rights {…}
