Pretty much everyone on stage at the Metropolitan Opera in New York must audition — even the snake who will briefly take ...

Pretty much everyone on stage at the Metropolitan Opera in New York must audition — even the snake who will briefly take ...

Snakes auditioned for a role in the Metropolitan Opera's "Così fan tutte" in New York, where performer Zoe Ziegfeld tested their comfort on stage. A boa constrictor named Princess won the part, with ...

Earlier this month the Metropolitan Opera, America’s largest performing-arts institution, which opens its 2025-26 season on Sunday, announced it had signed a memorandum of understanding with the Saudi ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Despite encouraging box office figures for the season's first half, the financially strapped Metropolitan Opera scaled back its 2026-27 schedule with its fewest productions in at least ...

Can the art of opera ever escape the suffocating grip of its magnificent past? Judging from the striking array of contemporary works that reached American stages in the past year, we might be closer ...

Derrick Goff, onetime vocal coach at the Metropolitan Opera: “I grew up surrounded by church music, choirs, piano playing. I started taking languages. There’s vocal music in other countries, operas, ...

Jolie plays the superstar soprano Maria Callas in the new movie “Maria.” We went to the Metropolitan Opera with her and the director Pablo Larraín. The Great Read Jolie plays the superstar soprano ...