Influencers Get Their Night at the Opera as the Met Courts New Fans

The Metropolitan Opera has invited 70 influencers to help convince a younger, online audience that opera isn’t scary or even ...

At the Met, Toasting With Traditional Puritans on New Year’s Eve

The Metropolitan Opera’s new production of Bellini’s “I Puritani,” directed by Charles Edwards, is “a retro move,” said Peter ...
Observer

In the Met’s Many Revivals, Sometimes Second Casts Finish First

Peter Kálmán, Alexey Zhilikhovsky and Aigul Akhmetshina as Bartolo, Figaro and Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia. Photo: Jonathan Tichler/Met Opera The closure of opera houses caused by the COVID-19 ...
New York Post

Metropolitan Opera’s Peter Gelb blames Trump for sales slump — but needs to look in the mirror

Blaming the president is a popular pastime these days, but one of America’s cultural leaders has come up with something really novel in the genre. “Metropolitan Opera season attendance dropped ...