New York Post

Metropolitan Opera’s Peter Gelb blames Trump for sales slump — but needs to look in the mirror

Blaming the president is a popular pastime these days, but one of America’s cultural leaders has come up with something really novel in the genre. “Metropolitan Opera season attendance dropped ...
The New York Times

The Composer Bringing ‘Symphonic Electronica’ to the Met

Performances in N.Y.C. With “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay,” Mason Bates, a.k.a. DJ Masonic, expands the sound world of the Metropolitan Opera. Credit... Supported by By Adam Nagourney ...
The New York Times

How the Metropolitan Opera Feeds Its Over-the-Top Appetites

When the curtain goes down onstage, it goes up at the Met’s restaurant, bars and staff cafeteria. When the curtain goes down onstage, it goes up at the Met’s restaurant, bars and staff cafeteria. The ...
Observer

In the Met’s Many Revivals, Sometimes Second Casts Finish First

Peter Kálmán, Alexey Zhilikhovsky and Aigul Akhmetshina as Bartolo, Figaro and Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia. Photo: Jonathan Tichler/Met Opera The closure of opera houses caused by the COVID-19 ...