Pursuit of politics and personalities ruined the Met Opera — America’s biggest performing-arts institution

The Metropolitan Opera has been making headlines lately — for all the wrong reasons. It’s not that the country’s oldest ...
WDTN

Met cuts season to 18 operas, matching fewest in 4 decades

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK (AP) — The financially challenged ...
New York Post

Metropolitan Opera’s Peter Gelb blames Trump for sales slump — but needs to look in the mirror

Blaming the president is a popular pastime these days, but one of America’s cultural leaders has come up with something really novel in the genre. “Metropolitan Opera season attendance dropped ...
Berkshire Eagle

Critic's notebook: At the Metropolitan Opera, an 'Aida' production rooted in the past says a lot about the genre's future

Editor’s note: This is the first in a three-part series of reported commentaries on the future of opera. NEW YORK — It’s a big house. The Metropolitan Opera seats nearly 4,000 people up into its fifth ...