Retiring from opera has its own set of challenges, but there is plenty I share with the other millions of Americans ending ...

The Met celebrates the new year with a new production of Bizet's Carmen by acclaimed English director Carrie Cracknell, opening on Sunday, December 31, at 6:30PM. In her highly anticipated Met debut, ...

Asmik Grigorian is reaching a new low — in a positive way — and doing it on one of the world’s top stages. A star soprano, ...

Don José will be portrayed by tenor Michael Fabiano for the first four performances, through November 7. Tenor Matthew Polenzani, who makes his Met role debut, returns for the final four November ...

A reimagined staging of Georges Bizet’s classic, “Carmen,” will be broadcast Jan. 27 in at the O’Shaughnessy Center in Whitefish as part of the Metropolitan Opera Live in HD series. Acclaimed English ...

NEW YORK — On Sunday, the Metropolitan Opera closed out 2023 with the opening of a new “Carmen,” offering a sold-out house another opportunity to revisit George Bizet’s relentlessly popular 1875 ...

NEW YORK — Aigul Akhmetshina likes to describe herself as “just an ordinary girl from a small village in the middle of nowhere in Russia.” Not quite. Akhmetshina started performing folk songs of her ...

He works in mysterious ways.

Over six decades she worked in theater, opera, film and television alongside luminaries like Alvin Ailey, Lena Horne, Agnes ...

“Yes, I owe ‘Carmen’ a lot,” said Maya Lahyani with a laugh. “I sang the title role when I first met my husband. He was the Don José. So, as you know from the story, he murders me at the end of the ...