Newsweek

Met Opera History Made in Landmark for Female Composers

Jeanine Tesori will become the first woman composer to open the season for the Metropolitan Opera in its 141-year history. Her revised opera, Grounded, will premiere at New York's Met on Monday night, ...
WOSU Public Media

Met Opera to double cast Verdi and Puccini, shift contemporary works from Saturdays

People appear in Josie Robertson Plaza in front of The Metropolitan Opera house at Lincoln Center in New York City on March 12, 2020. The Metropolitan Opera will double cast a portion of Verdi and ...
Gothamist

‘Malcolm X,’ the Met Opera revival, returns to New York. Oh, and there’s a spaceship.

There’s an unexpected, futuristic twist in the revival of the Anthony Davis opera “X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X,” the original of which was first staged nearly four decades ago: A spaceship ...

Met season opens with new opera based on Michael Chabon novel starring tenor Miles Mykkanen

Miles Mykkanen has come a long way since his musical theater dreams shifted to opera at Juilliard. Now 34, he’s just opened ...
City Journal

The Met’s “Big Bet” on Contemporary Opera Looks Like a Loser

“Hopefully we see the Met thriving artistically, and that we will have created a new artistic foundation that will help it continue to grow,” Metropolitan Opera general manager Peter Gelb told the New ...