After the New Year celebrations, the Semperoper Dresden is launching the second half of its current season with another eagerly awaited opera highlight – and not just for fans of Wagner. After more ...

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 ...

The Metropolitan Opera’s 2026 Summer HD Festival returns to Lincoln Center Plaza in September. The free festival features ...

Lise Davidsen and Michael Spyres in Tristan und Isolde at the Metropolitan Opera (Karen Almond / Met Opera) The second half of the 2025–26 season opens with a Wagner event for the ages, as blazing ...

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 ...

In his 2024 book, “A New Philosophy of Opera,” the American director Yuval Sharon offered a radical vision for an art form that is often mired in convention and conformity. He posited that opera’s ...

Isolde attempts to poison Tristan and herself on the voyage, but her maid Brangane swaps out the poison for love potion, with ultimately tragic consequences. Director Yuval Sharon makes his ...

In his book on reinventing opera, director Yuval Sharon describes Tristan und Isolde as “the single hardest work in the traditional repertoire to stage”. Yet here he is, about to make his Metropolitan ...