The American soprano, one of the most admired singers of her generation, is headlining the Metropolitan Opera’s first new production of Verdi ... her only previous staged performances came last year ...

By Zachary Woolfe For a long time, people went to the Metropolitan Opera for the horses ... making them as multidimensional as any man. Loved in London, Not in New York: What happened to the ...

Can the art of opera ever escape the suffocating grip of its magnificent past? Judging from the striking array of contemporary works that reached American stages in the past year, we might be ...

The American soprano, one of the most admired singers of her generation, is headlining the Metropolitan Opera ... came last year at London’s Royal Opera House. The critics were impressed ...