Don José will be portrayed by tenor Michael Fabiano for the first four performances, through November 7. Tenor Matthew Polenzani, who makes his Met role debut, returns for the final four November ...

For more than seven 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 Met celebrates the new year with a new production of Bizet's Carmen by acclaimed English director Carrie Cracknell, opening on Sunday, December 31, at 6:30PM. In her highly anticipated Met debut, ...

Performances in N.Y.C. The British director Carrie Cracknell’s production, opening on New Year’s Eve, resists the idea that the opera’s climactic scene is a crime of passion. Aigul Akhmetshina, center ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by During a break at the Royal Opera House, Aigul Akhmetshina discussed her action-packed career, “Carmen” and her mission to spread her love of opera.

LOCAL OPERA SINGERS HOMECOMING. KATHRYN HENRY OF CHEBOYGAN MAKING A NAME FOR HERSELF AT ONE OF THE COUNTRY’S MOST PRESTIGIOUS THEATERS, THE METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE IN NEW YORK CITY. BUT THIS MONTH, ...

NEW YORK — Aigul Akhmetshina likes to describe herself as “just an ordinary girl from a small village in the middle of nowhere in Russia.” Not quite. Akhmetshina started performing folk songs of her ...