Making art is about taking risk. Embarrassing serious artists when they are taking important risks seems hardly a smart approach that will foster additional experimentation.
AP | Posted 09.25.2009 | New York
NEW YORK — The Metropolitan Opera's new staging of Puccini's "Tosca" has run into more bumps. Spokesman Peter Clark says baritone George Gagnid...
Alex Henry | Posted 11.22.2009 | New York
Having gone just to witness the scene, I stayed for the second and third acts, foraging for some pizza and Pellegrino at one of the intermissions to complete the Italian effect.
AP | MIKE SILVERMAN | Posted 11.21.2009 | New York
NEW YORK — When was there last an opening night quite like this at the staid old Metropolitan Opera? It had just about everything: a new produc...
Patricia Zohn | Posted 11.21.2009 | New York
"In opera after the first night you don't know what will happen; it's a moveable feast!"
Jim Luce | Posted 05.01.2009 | World
From a very young age, Banaue demonstrated a riveting talent on the stage. Banaue is that rare multifaceted artist working in several disparate genres simultaneously.
Huffington Post | Katherine Thomson | Posted 04.16.2009 | Entertainment
The Metropolitan Opera celebrated with a 125th anniversary gala at Lincoln Center in New York on Sunday night. Among the stars who got all dressed up...
New York Magazine | Erica Orden | Posted 04.03.2009 | Business
In a move described by a Metropolitan Opera board member as "a decision of last resort," the company has collateralized the giant Chagalls in its lobb...
Ivan Katz | Posted 03.07.2009 | Entertainment
Is there anything that these small opera companies can do other than throw in the towel, close the doors and blame everyone and their cousin for the failure? Of course.
Patricia Zohn | Posted 01.10.2009 | Entertainment
If you were going to choose a way to celebrate the season where spirituality fights tooth and nail with sex on a daily basis, this could not be a better way to go.
Fern Siegel | Posted 12.13.2008 | Entertainment
The young, romance-seeker asks: "Don't you believe in love?" Her more jaded friend snaps back: "I believe in Lehman Bros." In 1922, when Edith Wharton wrote those lines, everyone laughed.
Patricia Zohn | Posted 10.19.2008 | Entertainment
It seemed only fitting that tonight was the sober, majestic performance of Verdi's Requiem in honor of Luciano Pavarotti at the Metropolitan Opera.
David A. Andelman | Posted 09.21.2008 | Home
Throughout the Nazi era in Germany, while Hitler and his minions were in the process of enslaving much of Europe, Wilhelm Furtwaengler served as chief...
Michael Kaiser | Posted 10.05.2009 | Entertainment