Audiences are packing the theater for a new “Tristan und Isolde.” Everyone can see the same spectacle, but they probably ...
The Metropolitan Opera has announced the winners of the 2026 Eric and Dominique Laffont Competition, selected following the ...
Director Yuval Sharon’s company debut is an imaginative, expansive production headed by two top-flight singers, Lise Davidsen and Michael Spyres.
A new Met Opera production of “Tristan und Isolde” uses Wagner’s rare wooden horn, the holztrompete, for a key offstage ...
Opera-Staging Tristan This image released by the Metropolitan Opera shows Soprano Lise Davidsen and tenor Michael Spyres as the title characters in a Feb. 27, 2026, rehearsal of a new production of ...
NEW YORK (WABC) -- This Black History Month, we're taking a moment to honor the trailblazers and notable performers at the iconic Metropolitan Opera House. The Met Opera has been a New York City ...
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra principal trumpet player Billy R. Hunter Jr. practices with a holztrompete, a wood horn specified by Richard Wagner for the third act of Tristan und Isolde," at the ...
NEW YORK (AP) — About 4 1/2 hours after the first notes of Wagner's “Tristan und Isolde,” a startling sound emerges from the wings, one many in the audience likely have never heard before. A nearly ...