Blaming the president is a popular pastime these days, but one of America’s cultural leaders has come up with something ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: One of the highlights of our Paris trip was an opera performance at the Palais Garnier. The opera, “Medee” by Cherubini, is in excess of four hours, with two brief intermissions. We ...

Lake Murray, one of South Carolina’s largest lakes, is a short drive away, offering boating, fishing, and water sports opportunities. The lake’s 500 miles of shoreline ensure you can always find a ...

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Lincoln Center Theater‘s 2025-2026 season both on Broadway and Off Off Broadway has some surprises in store: Among the productions joining the previously announced Broadway revival of the ...

For decades, an obsessive duo of guitar guys has been amassing a definitive collection. The art these objects created changed the world.

A stunning Metropolitan Opera production of Moby-Dick, Herman Melville’s tale of vengeance and obsession, reminds one a certain president by James D. Zirin March 7, 2025 March 7, 2025 Share this: ...

Learn the history of the Metropolitan Opera in the iconic 4,000-seat auditorium, go inside spaces like the scenic and carpentry shops, wig shop, costume shop, and armory, see where opera singers ...

Benjamin Bernheim with admirers in the title role of Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Karen Almond / Met Opera E.T.A. Hoffmann, spinner of bizarre tales in the early ...

The Metropolitan Opera has been in operation since 1883 when its home was on 39th Street and Broadway. In 1966 the Met Opera moved into its current Wallace Harrison-designed theater at Lincoln Center.

The opera has its origins in Italy over 400 years ago. Though it’s evolved over the past 4 centuries, an evening at the opera remains a special occasion and it would be wise to treat it as such. The ...