2025 in classical music: A year of small triumphs, against all odds

Looking back on 2025 is like trying to recount a dream — a mix of dagger-sharp details and foggy stretches that fall apart ...
The Armenian Weekly

Opera stars unite for Christmas Night Gala at Carnegie Hall

Opera luminaries Asmik Grigorian, Thomas Hampson, Brian Jagde, Anita Monserrat, Sondra Radvanovsky and Nadine Sierra will ...
The Canadian Press on MSN

Today-Music-History-Dec24

In 2012, Ray Collins, who invited guitarist Frank Zappa to join the band that eventually became the "Mothers of Invention," died five days after a heart attack. He was 75. Collins sang on three albums ...
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Acclaimed vocalist Margaret Jane Wray dead at 62

Acclaimed vocalist Margaret Jane Wray has tragically passed away. The dramatic soprano was 62. Wray first began her singing career as a member of the Metropolitan Opera's Young Artist program in the ...
BroadwayWorld

Video: Joshua Blue Sings from Mozart’s THE MAGIC FLUTE At the Metropolitan Opera

The Metropolitan Opera has released a rehearsal video from its upcoming revival of THE MAGIC FLUTE, offering an early look at ...
BroadwayWorld

Video: New Look At Mozart’s THE MAGIC FLUTE At the Metropolitan Opera

The Metropolitan Opera has released a rehearsal video from its upcoming revival of THE MAGIC FLUTE, offering an early look at ...
New York Post

The Metropolitan Opera’s vocal coach breaks down the difference between American and European performers

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, ...
Observer

The Met’s Crowd-Pleasing ‘Andrea Chénier’ Is Marred By Miscast Lovers

The opera house’s current revival, its first in nearly a dozen years, features an attractive, HD-ready cast that only ...
New York Post

Trio disrupts NYC’s Met Opera in wild anti-fascism protest against ‘art world’

A self-described comedian-activist was one of three protesters whose demonstration against “fascism” in the “art world” interrupted the Metropolitan Opera in Manhattan last week, The Post has learned.
The New York Times

Protesters Interrupt a Performance of ‘Carmen’ at the Met Opera

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by One of the protesters, who were arrested and removed from the hall, denounced the billionaire David H. Koch. By Adam Nagourney and Marina Harss A ...
The New York Times

Security Lapse Allowed Protesters to Disrupt Performance, Met Opera Says

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Peter Gelb, the Met’s general manager, said a security guard was absent from his post when two people climbed onstage at a performance of “Carmen.” By ...
WQXR

Puccini’s La Bohème

For more than nine decades, the Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcasts have brought opera into millions of homes, playing a vital and unparalleled role in the development and appreciation of opera in ...