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Friday, May 15, 2026

Rosa Feola and Ermonela Jaho Discuss Alternating the Title Role of La Traviata at the Met by Christopher Browner

Michael Mayer's production of Verdi's classic runs until June.

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Monday, April 27, 2026
Monday, March 23, 2026

Why Violetta in La Traviata Is Lisette Oropesa's Favorite Role by Christopher Browner

She's playing Verdi's heartbreaking heroine at the Metropolitan Opera.

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Friday, January 16, 2026
Thursday, December 18, 2025

I Puritani Returns to the Met in a New, Psychologically Thrilling, Production by Christopher Browner

Charles Edwards directs a new staging of Bellini's bel canto opera.

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Monday, November 24, 2025

Umberto Giordano's Vocally Demanding French Revolution Drama, Andrea Chénier, Returns to the Met by Christopher Browner

Tenor Piotr Beczała and soprano Sonya Yoncheva play the opera's ill-fated lovers.

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Thursday, April 10, 2025

The Met Presents Le Nozze di Figaro and Il Barbiere di Siviglia Back-to-Back by Christopher Browner

The pair of masterpieces from Mozart and Rossini define the operatic comedy.

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Thursday, January 9, 2025

Tenor Pene Pati Doesn't See His Duke in the Met's Rigoletto as a Villain by Christopher Browner

The Samoan actor makes his Metropolitan Opera debut this month as the libertine Duke, one of his signature roles.

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Wednesday, May 22, 2024

Anthony Roth Costanzo on Making Orfeo ed Euridice 'Devastating' by Christopher Browner

The countertenor is currently singing one of the title roles in the Gluck opera, now playing at the Metropolitan Opera.

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Tuesday, May 14, 2024

Renée Fleming, Kelli O'Hara, and Joyce DiDonato on Returning to The Hours by Christopher Browner

The three are reprising their roles in Kevin Puts' opera this month.

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Tuesday, January 16, 2024

Conductor Xian Zhang on How Madama Butterfly Is 'Universal' by Christopher Browner

Zhang is currently conducting Puccini's masterwork for the Metropolitan Opera.

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Friday, December 15, 2023

Kathryn Lewek Has Played the Queen of the Night at the Met 54 Times by Christopher Browner

The soprano is currently leading the Julie Taymor production of The Magic Flute at the Metropolitan Opera.

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Wednesday, September 27, 2023

The Opera Dead Man Walking First Premiered in 2000. Now It's Finally at the Met by Christopher Browner

Jake Heggie's opera is based on a memoir about death row and asks uncomfortable questions about America's death penalty.

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Tuesday, February 28, 2023

How Sonya Yoncheva Is Bringing Her Experience as a Mother to Norma by Christopher Browner

After leading Fedora earlier this season, the soprano is back at the Metropolitan Opera as Norma.

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Friday, December 16, 2022

Latonia Moore Returns to Aida, 10 Years After Making Her Met Opera Debut in the Role by Christopher Browner

Though unlike Verdi's tragic warrior princess, Moore would not die for love.

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Monday, December 12, 2022

How Renée Fleming Gave Kevin Puts the Idea to Create The Hours Opera by Christopher Browner

He also had his lead actresses in mind when composing the new work for the Metropolitan Opera.

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Friday, November 18, 2022

How Renée Fleming Inspired the Met Opera's The Hours by Christopher Browner

The superstar soprano sings alongside Kelli O'Hara and Joyce DiDonato in the new operatic adaptation of the Michael Cunningham novel.

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Thursday, November 17, 2022

Heroic Tenor Russell Thomas Finally Takes the Lead by Christopher Browner

Thomas made his Metropolitan Opera debut in 2005 in a supporting role in Don Carlo. Now he's returning to the opera, as the title character.

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Friday, May 27, 2022

Tenor Ben Bliss Gives a Progress Report on The Met's Upcoming Stravinsky Offering by Christopher Browner

Bliss returns to The Met for the first time since his 2020 appearance as Ferrando in Così fan tutte.

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Tuesday, May 10, 2022
Friday, December 17, 2021

There's Magic in the Air at the Metropolitan Opera's Cinderella by Christopher Browner

Massenet's opera returns in an abridged, English-language version for families; Isabel Leonard stars as the rags-to-riches heroine.

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Wednesday, November 3, 2021

Camille A. Brown Is On the Move by Christopher Browner

Dancers Christopher Figaro Jackson, Maleek Washington, and Jōvan Dansberry reflect on the director and choreographer's creative process.

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Monday, March 9, 2020

Mezzo-Soprano Tara Erraught on Bringing Cenerentola to the Met Opera by Christopher Browner

The Irish singer stars in Rossini's sparkling take on the Cinderella story, alongside tenor Javier Camarena as her Prince Charming, beginning March 12.

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Wednesday, January 8, 2020

Tony-Nominated Choreographer Camille A. Brown Reflects on Her Approach to Porgy and Bess by Christopher Browner

This season's new production of Porgy and Bess returns to the stage of the Met Opera January 8.

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Wednesday, November 13, 2019

Soprano Susanna Phillips on Singing Mozart at the Metropolitan Opera by Christopher Browner

The Alabama-born singer performs as Countess Almaviva in Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro, opening November 16.

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Tuesday, November 5, 2019

The Met Opera Presents the Company Premiere of Philip Glass' Akhnaten by Christopher Browner

Director Phelim McDermott's production stars countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo as the title pharaoh and mezzo-soprano J'Nai Bridges in her Met debut as Nefertiti, from November 8"December 7.

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Thursday, April 11, 2019

Soprano Anita Hartig Talks About Performing La Traviata at the Met Opera by Christopher Browner

Michael Mayer's new production of the Verdi masterpiece, starring tenor Stephen Costello as Alfredo and Plácido Domingo and Artur RuciÅ„sk sharing the role of Germont, continues throug…

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Monday, December 3, 2018

La Traviata Returns to the Met Opera With a Bold New Production by Christopher Browner

Tony winner Michael Mayer's new staging of Verdi’s masterpiece stars Diana Damrau and Juan Diego Flórez in the lead roles, with Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducting. It …

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Wednesday, November 14, 2018

Pretty Yende and Javier Camarena on Careers, The Pearl Fisher, and Singing in French by Christopher Browner

Last seen at the Met in 2017's l Barbiere di Siviglia, the duo return for another Bizet opera.

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Tuesday, October 9, 2018

Darko Tresnjak, Alexander Dodge, and Linda Cho on Making Their Met Debuts With Samson et Dalila by Christopher Browner

The Tony-winning director of Anastasia and his longtime designers give new life to the Saint-Saëns classic.

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Thursday, December 28, 2017

How The Met's Tosca Replicates the Grandeur of Rome by Christopher Browner

Sonya Yoncheva, one of opera’s most exciting artists, takes on the riveting title role of Puccini’s Tosca for the first time in her career, amidst life-like sets of the Eternal C…

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