As the houselights dim at the Metropolitan Opera, the Julie Taymor–directed The Magic Flute transports viewers into a buoyant and kaleidoscopic fairy-tale dreamworld. This abridged, English-language ...

Usually, holiday opera is scarce on major stages in New York. But this year, there are two at Lincoln Center alone.

The Metropolitan Opera's broadcast production of The Magic Flute airs at the Clark Art Institute on Saturday, Dec. 27 at 1 pm in the latest installment of ...

For its 2026 season, Chautauqua Opera Company is deepening its commitment to developing new operas while bringing fully ...

Gus Van Sant’s return to feature films, a spate of January theater festivals, and Slick Rick’s homecoming concert.

Gian Carlo Menotti’s opera “Amahl and the Night Visitors” is coming to New York’s Lincoln Center Theater. This beloved holiday opera, first broadcast on NBC in 1951, tells the story of ...

Meet a wigmaker, prop master, and conductor at the Lyric Opera. Geoffrey Baer meets one of the full-time wigmakers at the Lyric Opera, where he also gets to try on his own wig. Plus, a prop master ...

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Sir Humphrey Burton, who has died aged 94, was a prolific television arts producer of multiple talents who anticipated Melvyn ...

Opera has no shortage of drama or tension. But pyrotechnics, explosions, intense fights and aerobatics are chiefly the domain ...

The Metropolitan Opera’s 2025-26 season of matinee broadcasts continues Saturday with a live broadcast of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute. This holiday version of Julie Taymor’s popular production is ...

The Metropolitan Opera’s 2025-26 season of Saturday matinee radio broadcasts continues with an abridged holiday presentation ...