Director Carrie Cracknell, who made her Metropolitan Opera debut with a new production of Bizet’s “Carmen” on New Year’s Eve, is known for modernizing and giving a feminist edge to classic ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Daniele Rustioni will become just the third principal guest conductor of the Metropolitan Opera in its nearly ...

Mezzo-soprano Clémentine Margaine reprises her remarkable portrayal of opera’s ultimate seductress ... Richard Eyre’s powerful production, a Met favorite since its 2009 premiere.

Daniele Rustioni has been appointed as the Metropolitan Opera's Principal Guest Conductor, becoming only the third person to ...

Carmen is not only a poor woman in a rich man’s world, but a gypsy – one of the most marginalised groups of any society, in any era. Clémentine Margaine as ...

Operagoers who think that Bizet’s “Carmen” is Spanish should be sure to catch Osvaldo Golijov’s “Ainadamar,” which had its Metropolitan Opera premiere on Tuesday and runs through Nov. 9.

19, 1972. Bernstein conducted the production of Bizet’s “Carmen.” Opera star Joan Sutherland, center, takes bows at the conclusion of “Don Givanni” at the Metropolitan Opera House ...

On the Arts host David Latulippe’s guests are SF Opera’s Jeffrey McMillan; Opera San José Director Michelle Ainna Cuizon and ...

behold opera’s feistiest, most fickle, most fearless and most freedom-loving proto-feminist heroine. She’s Carmen, of course, ...

Months after the 1875 world premiere of Carmen was met with hostile reviews ... filling-in as a late substitute Amneris in Verdi’s Aida. Opera reported, “All gave very physical performances ...

Celebrating Virginia Opera’s 50th season, and back in the repertoire after a 10-year absence, behold opera’s feistiest, most ...

Ideas tumble out and collide in Yuval Sharon’s "A New Philosophy of Opera" (Liveright). The out American director, deemed a maverick by many, steps off stage to deliver his manifesto about keeping ...