Peter Gelb News

More than a decade after a serious onstage accident ended her career, veteran mezzo-soprano Wendy White has settled her lawsuit against the Metropolitan Opera.

Works & Process announced a presentation of The Metropolitan Opera's Grounded by Jeanine Tesori, libretto by George Brant at the Guggenheim's Peter B. Lewis Theater. Learn how to attend.

The Metropolitan Opera's 2024–25 season opens with the company premiere of GROUNDED. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets.

The Metropolitan Opera has extended the contract of its Jeanette Lerman-Neubauer Music Director, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, through the 2029–30 season. Learn more!

The Metropolitan Opera today announced the contract extension of its Jeanette Lerman-Neubauer Music Director, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, through the 2029–30 season. Only the third Music Director in the company’s history, Nézet-Séguin began his tenure in the 2018–19 season.

During the fall 2024 Works & Process season, a full slate of dynamic events will take place at the Guggenheim Museum, Manhattan West, and the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

The Metropolitan Opera's ticket sales climb to 72% this season, up from 66% in 2022-23, with an increase in box-office revenue despite remaining below pre-pandemic levels. General Manager Peter Gelb reports a younger average age for single-ticket buyers and expresses optimism for the future.

Get ready for an unforgettable musical experience as the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra embarks on their Beethoven Ninth Freedom Tour.

Pulitzer Prize–winning composer-conductor John Adams will return to the Met for the company premiere of his acclaimed opera-oratorio El Niño, opening on April 23.

The cast and creative team members of John Adams's El Niño at the Metropolitan Opera recently took part in two different panels to discuss the production, at The Apollo and The Guggenheim. Both panels are now available in full to watch online. Check out the videos here!

The Metropolitan Opera has announced its first-ever Met Orchestra Asia Tour this summer, June 19–30, immediately following its annual June residency at Carnegie Hall. Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the Met's Jeanette Lerman-Neubauer Music Director, will conduct the Met Orchestra, with guest artists soprano Lisette Oropesa, mezzo-soprano Elīna Garanča, and bass-baritone Christian Van Horn.

Works & Process will present The Metropolitan Opera: El Niño by John Adams. Learn more about the event and see how to purchase tickets.

The Metropolitan Opera has unveiled the 2024–25 season lineup. Learn about the operas being presented and see how to purchase tickets.

In response to the unprecedented challenges faced by the performing arts sector, particularly during and after the pandemic, the Metropolitan Opera has announced a series of strategic measures to ensure its continued operation and artistic excellence.

All that was missing were shouts of “food fight!” to turn last night’s performance of Richard Wagner’s TANNHAUSER—the first of the Met’s season—into a version of National Lampoon’s Night at the Opera, as climate activists interrupted the house debut of the great baritone Christian Gerhaher, and audience members traded barbs with the demonstrators, threatening the company’s determination that “the show must go on.”

Works & Process is back with their biggest season yet! Discover the lineup of performances and discussions happening in Spring 2024, including venues and dates. Don't miss out on this unique behind-the-scenes experience in the world of performing arts.

The Met Opera and The Apollo will present a free simulcast of Anthony Davis’s X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X at The Apollo on November 18 at 12:55PM. This marks the first-ever collaboration between the two New York cultural institutions.

Check out rehearsal video footage from Robert O'Hara's production of Anthony Davis's X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X at the Met Opera here!

National Sawdust and Metropolitan Opera present Opera Evolved, a series of conversations with composers and artists exploring contemporary opera. The series kicks off on October 24 with Anthony Davis and Andrea Puente discussing their works. Get tickets now.

Bay Street Theater & Sag Harbor Center for the Arts has announced that it will be screening the Metropolitan Opera's 2023–2024 season LIVE IN HD on their big  screen. Running October 2023 through May 2024, Bay Street audiences are able to experience 9 spectacular productions, presented live directly from the Met Opera's stage in New York City.