Three days, three shows: people from Des Moines Metro Opera discuss the magic of theatre season. I’m a microbiologist. Here’s ...

Des Moines Metro Opera has become one of the country’s most successful smaller companies doing adventurous repertory in a 467 ...

The series kicks off Friday, August 22, with a special screening of Maestro, the 2023 Leonard Bernstein biopic starring ...

Milan’s famed opera house is cracking down on the underdressed, even as it and other European opera companies try to attract ...

Opera singer and Cherokee voice instructor Barbara McAlister gives highlights of the Plimpton Foundation’s 2025 Awards ...

Terence Blanchard's opera, "Fire Shut Up in My Bones" In its 138 years, America's leading opera house, the Metropolitan Opera in New York, had never staged an opera by a Black composer – until now.

The Metropolitan Opera's revival of Tchaikovsky’s *The Queen of Spades*, which opened on Friday, May 23, 2025, offered a visually opulent and musically ambitious evening, though not without its ...

Davóne Tines in the Metropolitan Opera's El Niño Evan Zimmerman Siman Chung, Key'mon W. Murrah, Eric Jurenas, Julia Bullock, Davóne Tines, and J'Nai Bridges in the Metropolitan Opera's El Niño ...

The Metropolitan Opera’s annual Summer HD Festival returns to Lincoln Center Plaza. The free festival features ten screenings from the Met’s celebrated Live in HD series.

An opera was, in fact, going on—Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde, best-seller of recent Metropolitan seasons, its cast headed in familiar top-notch style by Lauritz Melchior and Kirsten Flagstad.

This town of about 16,000, 20 miles south of downtown Des Moines, might seem an unlikely place for a sophisticated opera festival. The tallest structure for miles around is a grain elevator, and ...

The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City's Lincoln Center remains a bastion of mid-century design excellence. But, like everything with a bit of age, a refresh is inevitable. The cultural ...