25 stories by "Ronald Blum"
Chalamet, who is nominated for Best Actor at this Sunday's Academy Awards, is facing backlash for saying 'no one cares' about opera and ballet
The Metropolitan Opera cut back its 2026-27 season due to a tight budget, even as ticket sales improved slightly
The President-King grows to huge dimensions while wearing a diaper and a golden necktie
"It's a coming of age for the protagonists and a loss of innocence," Fleming said.
The financially challenged Metropolitan Opera is cutting its schedule to 18 productions next season, matching the pandemic-curtailed 2019-20 season for the fewest since 14 in strike-shortene…
Darko Tresnjak thought back to November 2016, when he headed to the acclaimed modernist home designed by Charles Gwathmey in Manchester that he had purchased a year earlier with his husband.…
NEW YORK (AP) -- Michael Fabiano was singing at the Metropolitan Opera when a key mix-up occurred....
NEW YORK (AP) -- When conductor replacements are needed, opera companies and orchestras scramble in a game of musical podiums, with one change causing a cascade....
Mark Campbell wants people to issue warnings when they leave his operatic adaptation of "The Shining."...
NEW YORK (AP) -- James Taylor thought back four decades to his Carnegie Hall debut and said it was "the sort of cultural sign" that he had made it to a certain level…
NEW YORK (AP) -- Francesco Anile got to make his Metropolitan Opera debut in a T-shirt, blue jeans and sneakers. With 5 minutes notice....
NEW YORK (AP) -- James Levine will retire as the Metropolitan Opera's music director at the end of this season because of Parkinson's disease, ending a 40-year run t…
NEW YORK (AP) -- Stephen Sondheim sounded enchanted....
Before dying on stage, the lead singers in the Metropolitan Opera's production of Gounod's "Romeo et Juliette" get sick. Really. In startling frequency.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Luca Salsi was at the corner of Broadway and 72nd Street, taking a walk with his wife, when he got a call from Alvaro Domingo, son of the famous singer....
NEW YORK (AP) -- The Metropolitan Opera has commissioned Nico Muhly to compose "Marnie" for its 2019-20 season, based on Winston Graham's 1961 novel that was adapted into an Alfred Hitch…
NEW YORK (AP) -- And now for something completely different....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Kristine Opolais got to bed at 5 a.m. Saturday after singing her first "Madama Butterfly'" at the Metropolitan Opera and going out for dinner....
NEW YORK (AP) -- James Levine will resume a full schedule of six productions at the Metropolitan Opera next season, conducting on opening night for the first time since 2010 following hi…
NEW YORK (AP) -- Andre Previn's opera version of "A Streetcar Named Desire" finally made it to New York - 15 years after its world premiere....
NEW YORK (AP) -- For all the bright lights and razzle-dazzle of the Las Vegas locale, the most illuminating stretches in Michael Mayer's showy new production of "Rigoletto" at the Metrop…
NEW YORK (AP) -- The Metropolitan Opera's revival of its 2 1/2-year-old production of Bizet's "Carmen" was memorable for the debut of conductor Michele Mariotti and for performances by A…
New York City Opera will return to its roots at New York City Center in March after a 48-year absence.
NEW YORK (AP) -- The Metropolitan Opera has abandoned a new production of Verdi's "Rigoletto" by director Luc Bondy, whose grim version of Puccini's "Tosca" provoked intense booing when …
NEW YORK (AP) -- New York City Opera has declared an impasse in contract negotiations with unions for its musicians and singers and is threatening to present its abbreviated season witho…
