Wednesday, April 17, 2024
He played a different role in the previous version of the show. Now he's stepping in as the lead.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:24PMFriday, March 15, 2024
Director Mariusz Treliński brings Verdi's opera to the modern day.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:54PMMonday, March 6, 2023
Beginning March 12, the German baritone appears in his first Verdi opera with the Metropolitan Opera in Falstaff.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:24PMTuesday, May 17, 2022
Simon Stone’s present-day staging moves the action to America’s Rust Belt and utilizes no cyclorama.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:54AMMonday, March 21, 2022
McVicar and music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin discuss the belated premiere.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:33PMFriday, December 10, 2021
Performances of Matthew Aucoin and Sarah Ruhl's Eurydice run through December 16 at the Metropolitan Opera.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:58PMWednesday, March 4, 2020
The celebrated director's production of Wagner's first masterpiece explores the mystical nature of the opera and the power of images to consume us.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:30AMThursday, January 2, 2020
The singer is adding another chapter to his Met Opera legacy with his role debut as the title character of Berg’s Wozzeck, in a new production by South African artist William Kentridge.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:29PMMonday, November 25, 2019
The Norwegian singer makes her Met Opera debut as Lisa in The Queen of Spades November 29–December 21.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:48PMThursday, November 21, 2019
Here’s how Chorus Master Donald Palumbo prepares the ensemble to sound its best.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:34PMThursday, October 3, 2019
The maestro kicks off with Puccini's Turandot starring Christina Goerke and Nina Stemme, which begins October 3.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:22PMThursday, May 2, 2019
The classic John Dexter production of Poulenc’s devastating story of faith and martyrdom opens May 3.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:23PMTuesday, April 2, 2019
These outstanding singers join the cast via the Met's Lindemann Young Artist Development Program.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:36PMTuesday, March 26, 2019
The dramatic soprano reflects on the challenges of this epic role and how she plans to handle a Ring week, with three complete cycles running through May 11.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:54PMThursday, March 7, 2019
Wagner’s four-installment epic returns to the Met for the first time since the 2012–13 season, with three complete cycles, beginning March 9.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:54PMTuesday, February 12, 2019
Rigoletto—the Met Opera's neon-bedecked production—returns this season from February 12.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:48PMTuesday, January 29, 2019
Finley appears in Bartók’s dark opera through February 14.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:41PMTuesday, April 24, 2018
The singer stars as Enrico in the Metropolitan Opera's Lucia di Lammermoor from April 25.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:07AMWednesday, March 28, 2018
With Verdi's Luisa Miller, Piotr Beczała and Plácido Domingo collaborate for the first time.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:12AMWednesday, March 14, 2018
With Kelli O’Hara as Despina, Christopher Maltman as Don Alfonso, and Harry Bicket on the podium, the Met’s new production of Così fan tutte features sword swallowers, fire …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:53PMWednesday, February 28, 2018
Performances of the Richard Strauss masterpiece run March 1–23.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:49PMThursday, February 8, 2018
And the gory special effects feat in Parsifal everyone will be buzzing about.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:32PMTuesday, January 16, 2018
The acclaimed soprano will play the title role through January 27, then return to the Met's stage in La Bohème.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:42AMFriday, January 12, 2018
Nadine Sierra makes her stunning role debut as Susanna, now through January 19.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, December 5, 2017
The Mozartean master talks to the Met's Jay Goodwin about performing such an intimate work in such a large space.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:43AMSaturday, March 18, 2017
Star soprano Adrianne Pieczonka reveals her take on the refreshing role.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM 
