SOUND OF REVOLUTION
Metropolitan Opera
‘MY FAITH IS MY WORK’
WELCOME TO WALLY’S
TIME GOES BY
The Met Opera and Philadelphia Orchestra’s adaptation of Michael Cunningham’s book and Stephen Daldry’s movie brings together Renée Fleming, Kelli O’Hara, and Joyce DiDonato.
LONG TIME COMING
The Grammy-winning trumpet player and composer’s “Fire Shut Up in My Bones” is the first opera by a Black composer performed at the Metropolitan Opera in its 138-year history.
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FULL LIFE
Mary Beth Peil, an opera singer and stage actor before ‘Dawson’s Creek’ and ‘The Good Wife,’ talks fame, #MeToo, Katie Holmes’ crush on Tom Cruise, and facing ‘rude’ Chris Noth.
THE RIGHT NOTES
Nico Muhly’s opera, ‘Marnie,’ its story made famous by Hitchcock’s movie, is being performed at the Metropolitan Opera. Where will his inspirations take the young composer next?
His Eyes How They Twinkled
How the founder of the Metropolitan Opera became the unlikely mentor of Christmas’ most famous poet.
Gender
‘We all have masculine and feminine in us,’ says Elizabeth DeShong, one of a group of women playing five lead male characters at New York City’s Metropolitan Opera.
Low Notes
When a man sprinkled ashes of a mentor into the orchestra pit at the Met on Saturday he sparked a terror alert. It's not the first time the cops have had to rush to the opera.