Met Opera looks to new era
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Anthony Minghella, black baseball cap on his bald head, ran down the aisle.
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The San Francisco Opera on Tuesday announced its own plan to transmit operas to movie theaters using a system it says is superior to that of the Metropolitan Opera.
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A 69-year-old former oil tanker moored in the companyâs container port in Red Hook, Brooklyn, has been transformed into the set for an opera, âIl Tabarro,â by Puccini.
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The Metropolitan Opera hopes to tour China for the first time, negotiating to perform Tan Dun's "The First Emperor" there with tenor Placido Domingo to coincide with the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
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Performances from New York's famous Metropolitan Opera are to be broadcast live on satellite radio.
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The Metropolitan Operaâs new strategy of plugging sudden holes in its casts with big names has its beneficiaries.
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By RONALD BLUM  NEW YORK - Gerard Mortier noted a coincidence when he was being courted to become boss of the New York City Opera. "It was a little bit nostalgic," he said Wednesday. "The City Opera was created in '43.
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Expect fur to fly at the newest exhibit at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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NEW YORK - The Metropolitan Opera will transmit six live performances to movie theaters and will broadcast more than 100 live performances over the Internet or on digital radio in a groundbreaking attempt to expand its audience, the company announced Wednesday.
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The fourth Handel opera in the Metropolitan Opera's history, which opened Thursday, is a landmark production including the radiant RenÃ©e Fleming.
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The San Francisco Opera announced a plan to transmit operas to movie theaters using a system it says is superior to that of the Metropolitan Opera.
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For the first time in nearly 20 years the Metropolitan Opera presented Verdiâs breakthrough early masterpiece in a stylistically eclectic, grimly effective and, at times, intriguingly playful production.
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The Royal Opera House in London revived Francesca Zambelloâs grippingly spare and psychologically probing staging of âDon Giovanni.â
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Verdiâs âMacbethâ returns to the Met, and the director plans to keep the air of tragedy dominant.
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The Metropolitan Opera said on   Wednesday it would broadcast six live performances to movie   theaters in North America and Europe starting on December 30 in   a bid to broaden its audience.
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Opera is no stranger to sensitive singers and demanding divas.
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Philip Glass' "Satyagraha" will be given its Metropolitan Opera premiere next season as part of a co-production with the English National Opera.