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In the Metropolitan Opera’s production of “Carmen,” three pickup trucks and a tractor-trailer are crucial props. By James Barron Good morning. It’s Monday. We’ll find out what drives the ...
Those who attend live performances at the theater or the opera strive to get the most out of their experience — especially in a culture-rich city such as New York City. They want the best seats and ...
The Metropolitan Opera will open a newly-designed retail store in the lobby of the Opera House on Tuesday, November 25 at 10:00 am. Reconceived and renovated from top to bottom, the new shop will ...
Learn the history of the Metropolitan Opera in the iconic 4,000 seat auditorium Visit backstage areas like the scenic and carpentry shops, wig shop, costume shop, and armory* See where opera ...
The opera tells the story of a young, ... Oct. 10, audiences will also see an entirely rebuilt Act 3—the product of 40 people working through the summer at the Met’s shop in the Bronx.
Looking at a picture of one of the stars in the Metropolitan Opera's production of Medea, Rafael Colon is creating one-of-a-kind jackets available for purchase at the Met's gift shop at Lincoln ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the Metropolitan Opera’s music director, wears custom-made outfits tailored to each production, challenging conservative norms. “I love it so ...
The Met Opera says it normally processes more than $200,000 worth of tickets each day. Its credit card orders for the Met Opera Shop are also down, according to a spokesperson.
She didn’t leave on a high note. The Metropolitan Opera booted the best mezzo-soprano “on the planet” once she struggled to hit her high notes, the singer claims in a Manhattan federal lawsuit.
Maybe you have opera jokes. We did. When the Pop Culture Happy Hour team planned a trip to the Metropolitan Opera in New York, we grudgingly served up to each other our dusty old gags about Bugs ...
For the first time in almost seven years, the Metropolitan Opera has revived Wagner's DIE MEISTERSINGER VON NURNBERG. ... in Sachs' shop and on a meadow where the song contest take place.