The Met has looked to a foreign government, to new strategies, even to outer space, in its scramble to find money to sustain the country’s largest performing arts organization.

Opera director Yuval Sharon has said that Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde” is the hardest work in the traditional repertoire to stage.

Watch the official trailer for INNOCENCE at The Metropolitan Opera, Kaija Saariaho’s final opera, conducted by Susanna Mälkki and starring Joyce DiDonato.

Yuval Sharon, known for his bold approach to opera, is making his Met debut with what he has called “the single hardest work” to stage.

The Metropolitan Opera has been making headlines lately — for all the wrong reasons. It’s not that the country’s oldest continuously operating opera company is seeing revived relevance and eager engagement. Quite the contrary. The storied institution ...

The Metropolitan Opera has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Saudi Music Commission and the Royal Diriyah Opera House that will make the Met the winter resident company in Riyadh when the new opera house opens in 2028. Under the five-year ...

Earlier this month the Metropolitan Opera, America’s largest performing-arts institution, which opens its 2025-26 season on Sunday, announced it had signed a memorandum of understanding with the Saudi Music Commission to become the resident winter ...