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  1. opera review
    At the Met, Moby-Dick Gets Rendered DownJake Heggie’s and Gene Scheer’s opera adaptation goes easy on the meaty conflicts and keeps the stakes curiously low.
    By Justin Davidson
  2. opera review
    An Aida That Tries to Apologize for Itself“Michael Mayer’s new staging for the Met had me wondering how soon someone would roll the stone slab back and let my people go home.”
    By Justin Davidson
  3. opera review
    Moral Complexity at the Met: Jeanine Tesori’s GroundedOur theater and music critics discuss the new opera about drone warfare and the people who wage it.
    By Justin Davidson and Sara Holdren
  4. fall preview 2024
    30 Classical-Music Performances We Can’t Wait to Hear This FallEnough to make you reassess classical music’s lineage.
    By Justin Davidson
  5. opera review
    At the Met, Great Voices and Overwrought Choices in La Forza del DestinoSoprano Lise Davidsen knows what’s needed here; director Mariusz Treliński does not.
    By Justin Davidson
  6. carmen
    Opera Review: A Maybe-Midwestern Carmen With No Ticket OutAn attempt at modernization that diminishes the opera’s timeliness.
    By Justin Davidson
  7. opera review
    Steam Till It Wilts: The Met’s Florencia en el Amazones“Couples converge, turn away, and re-embrace aboard a jungle Love Boat.”
    By Justin Davidson
  8. fall preview 2023
    25 New Classical Music Performances to Hear This FallIncluding a fresh Metropolitan Opera slate, a night of Phillip Glass, and more.
    By Justin Davidson
  9. opera review
    The Hours Comes to Roiling Vocal LifeMichael Cunningham’s novel comes to the Metropolitan Opera’s stage.
    By Justin Davidson
  10. fall preview
    42 New Classical Music Performances to Hear This FallIncluding the grand reopening of David Geffen Hall, Medea at the Met, and work by Tyshawn Sorey.
    By Justin Davidson
  11. classical review
    Finding Solace and Defiance at the Met’s A Concert for UkraineThis week, emotions ran high at New York performances by the Met Opera, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and the Philharmonic.
    By Justin Davidson
  12. classical music
    Met Opera to Stop Working With Pro-Putin ArtistsAnna Netrebko will not perform for the next two seasons.
    By Justin Curto
  13. opera review
    The Met Comes Alight Again With Fire Shut Up in My Bones“For all its newsworthiness, Fire Shut Up in My Bones is an old-fashioned opera opera.”
    By Justin Davidson
  14. obituary
    On the Talented, Monstrous James LevineThe Met’s longtime artistic director, fired for sexual abuse, has died at 77.
    By Justin Davidson
  15. opera review
    Lise Davidsen’s Recital Provides the Hit of Joy Every Operagoer Is MissingA little of what fans are craving.
    By Justin Davidson
  16. performing arts
    The Precarious Future of High Culture in New YorkThe pandemic silenced the city’s symphony halls and grand opera houses. But will the (eventual) restart bring with it a reckoning?
    By Justin Davidson
  17. the coronavirus
    The Metropolitan Opera Cancels All Remaining 2020 PerformancesThe company remains hopeful that a New Year’s Eve show can occur.
    By Devon Ivie
  18. streaming opera
    Streaming Now: The Metropolitan Opera’s Tristan und IsoldeA 2016 production with familiar tropes.
    By Justin Davidson
  19. opera review
    Streaming Tonight: A Tale of Two Tones in the Met’s La TraviataMichael Mayer’s production makes the sparkly life so unsexy and over-sugared, the last act’s bleakness comes off as refreshingly spare.
    By Justin Davidson
  20. opera
    The Metropolitan Opera Is Furloughing Its Orchestra, Chorus, and TradesThey’ll retain health and instrument insurance, but not their salaries.
    By Sarah Jones and Justin Davidson
  21. opera review
    Opera Review: Great Voices and Coked-Up Staging in the Met’s AgrippinaJoyce DiDonato leads a cast that’s directed at a frantic pace.
    By Justin Davidson
  22. opera review
    Gleaming and Self-Aware, Philip Glass’s Akhnaten Is Borne to the MetGilt is everywhere.
    By Justin Davidson
  23. #metoo
    Plácido Domingo Played Charming Rogues Onstage and a Monstrous One in PrivateOnstage at the Met, he was a persuasive bad guy. We were seeing more than we knew.
    By Justin Davidson
  24. opera review
    A Gorgeous Porgy and Bess, Its Flaws Intact, at the Metropolitan OperaAll those musical superpowers on the Met’s stage make Porgy as easy to love as it is hard to swallow.
    By Justin Davidson
  25. classical music
    The Met Opera’s Yannick Nézet-Séguin Has Found His FootingAfter a few years adrift, the company has found its sheriff — or maybe shepherd is a better word.
    By Justin Davidson
  26. opera
    Why You Should Battle Your Way in to See This GötterdämmerungThe slats are silly, but the soloists are not.
    By Justin Davidson
  27. opera review
    Opera Review: On the Lightness of Nico Muhly’s Marnie“This deluxe production of a lavish opera rests on such a wispy score.”
    By Justin Davidson
  28. opera review
    Opera Review: Anna Netrebko, an Old-Style Diva, in AidaBut really, the Met Opera needs to eliminate the brownface.
    By Justin Davidson
  29. classical-music review
    Opera Review: The Met Brings Back Samson et Dalila, With Just Enough Fromage“To describe it as gaudy and silly is a compliment, not a complaint.”
    By Justin Davidson
  30. Opera Review: Così Fan Tutte, Kelli O’Hara, and the Long Shadow of James LevineA new production with one of Broadway’s biggest voices, and also a ghost.
    By Justin Davidson
  31. sexual abuse
    Met Opera Fires Conductor James Levine After Sexual-Abuse InvestigationThe Met found credible of Levine’s “sexually abusive and harassing conduct.”
    By Jackson McHenry
  32. opera review
    Opera Review: A Parsifal Even the Wagner-Phobic Can EnjoyIncluding a long-overdue Met debut.
    By Justin Davidson
  33. opera review
    Opera Review: The Met’s Tosca Is Afraid of Its Own PastThe replacement for a hated 2009 production looks deeper into the past.
    By Justin Davidson
  34. sexual assault
    The Met May Not Survive the James Levine DisgraceHe was the charismatic center holding together a company that was already in financial trouble.
    By Justin Davidson
  35. sexual harassment and assault
    Met Opera Suspends Conductor James Levine As Sexual-Abuse Allegations Emerge“This is a tragedy for anyone whose life has been affected,” the Met’s general manager Peter Gelb said in a statement.
    By Halle Kiefer
  36. L’amour de loin Is Iridescently BeautifulThe first opera by a woman to be staged at the Met since 1903.
    By Justin Davidson
  37. What Happened to New Opera at the Met?Living composers are trickier than dead ones. But they’re also necessary.
    By Justin Davidson
  38. theater review
    Review: The Metropolitan Opera’s Guillaume TellIf the gimmickry serves to express some idea about the opera, or about Rossini’s music, director Pierre Audi keeps that connection under wraps.
    By Justin Davidson
  39. Yannick Nézet-Séguin Will Be the Met Opera’s New Music Director He’ll commute from Philadelphia. Eventually.
    By Justin Davidson
  40. The Controlled Fury of the Met’s ElektraThe new production, originally directed by Patrice Chereau, finds strength in subtlety.
    By Justin Davidson
  41. classical music
    The Metropolitan Opera’s James Levine to RetireHe’ll step down at the end of the current season.
    By Justin Davidson
  42. opera review
    Opera Review: Superior Singing Saves a Buggy Manon Lescaut“A closed-eyes special.”
    By Justin Davidson
  43. opera review
    Opera Review: Les Pêcheurs de PerlesTreat it as escapism.
    By Justin Davidson
  44. Opera Review: The Met Gets It All Right in William Kentridge’s LuluMore like this, please.
    By Justin Davidson
  45. opera
    Opera Review: A Brief Return for The Rake’s ProgressOut of the warehouse, brilliantly, for a couple of nights.
    By Justin Davidson
  46. opera
    Opera Review: Cavalleria Rusticana and PagliacciThe classic diptych in a new production.
    By Justin Davidson
  47. opera
    Opera Review: The Met’s La donna del lago“DiDonato belongs to that elite club of performing artists who get ovations simply for stepping onstage.”
    By Justin Davidson
  48. opera review
    The Met’s The Merry Widow Tries to Put a Fresh Twist on an Airy ClassicBut it takes so long to warm up that it barely reaches the temperature of day-old bathwater before the final dose of foam.
    By Justin Davidson
  49. Opera Review: The Met’s (Very) Long-Running MeistersingerFive hours of music.
    By Justin Davidson
  50. Opera Review: Do Not Skip Lady Macbeth of MtsenskWhy doesn’t this production come back more often?
    By Justin Davidson
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