The Metropolitan Opera is staging a production of Herman Melville’s masterpiece about a white whale, ‘Moby-Dick ...

Our critics choose highlights from a lineup that includes six new productions and modern works by Mason Bates, Kaija Saariaho ...

The coming season promises opera that draws on everything from Herman Melville to jazz and blues, and dance that flows from ...

Dawson, born in Madison in 1894, was a opera educator and founder of the National Negro Opera Company in 1941. She led the ...

Also: the psychodramas of Father John Misty, a humble “Henry IV,” the return of the Flamenco Festival, and more.

A concert performance of “Vanessa” freshly argued for the vitality of a work that deserves to be staged but languishes with ...

Tony Award-winning director Michael Mayer brings a new production of Verdi’s grand masterpiece Aida to the Met next month. Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Alexander Soddy conduct. Watch a new trailer here!

Herman Melville’s 1851 novel Moby-Dick has inspired a lot of art over the decades: Two examples are Mastodon’s 2004 heavy ...

The Philadelphia Orchestra recorded the symphonies of the early-twentieth-century Black composer Florence Price. The National ...

The Metropolitan Opera has revealed its 2025–26 season, the company’s 142nd year, featuring six new productions—three of which are Met premieres—and 12 revivals. Learn more and see how to purchase ...

The Metropolitan Opera will double cast a portion of Verdi and Puccini revivals and shift some contemporary compositions away ...