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AN EVENING WITH ISABEL LEONARD AND FRIENDS at Carnegie Hall Canceled

June 08, 2026 An Evening With Isabel Leonard and Friends has been cancelled at Carnegie Hall's Zankel Hall due to personal family reasons. The performance will not be rescheduled this season.

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Video: Sandra Oh Makes Metropolitan Opera Debut In LA FILLE DU RÉGIMENT

October 23, 2025 Sandra Oh, fresh off her acclaimed performances in Shakespeare in the Park’s Twelfth Night, made her Metropolitan Opera debut as the Duchess of Krakenthorp in Laurent Pelly’s production of Donizetti’s La Fille du Régiment on October 17. Check out a video clip of her performance below!

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LES CONTES D'HOFFMANN (The Tales of Hoffmann) to Open The Met's 2024–25 Live in HD season

September 25, 2024 Offenbach's fantastical final work, Les Contes d'Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann), will open the Metropolitan Opera's 2024–25 Live in HD season. French tenor Benjamin Bernheim makes his Met role debut as the title character. Learn more and see how to watch.

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New York City Opera to Celebrate 100 Years Of Puccini As Part Of Bryant Park Picnic Performances

May 14, 2024 Join the New York City Opera for a Puccini Celebration, honoring the 100th anniversary of Giacomo Puccini's passing. Learn more!

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LA BOHEME & More Set for The Met's 2024 Live In HD Summer Encores

May 08, 2024 Experience the magic of the MET's 2024 Live in HD Summer Encores, set to begin on Wednesday, July 24. Learn how to purchase tickets!

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Tribeca New Music Presents A Concert Reading of RETURNING: THE ORDEAL OF OLIVE OATMAN

September 18, 2023 'Returning: The Ordeal of Olive Oatman - An Opera World Premiere concert reading at Opera America's National Opera Center. Based on the true story of a Mormon girl taken captive by Native Americans in 1851.'

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Soprano Lisette Oropesa To Step In For Nadine Sierra As Soloist In Brahms's EIN DEUTCHES Requiem With The Met Orchestra And Chorus On Thursday, June 15

June 12, 2023 Carnegie Hall has announced that soprano Lisette Oropesa will step in for Nadine Sierra performing with The Met Orchestra on Thursday, June 15 at 8:00 p.m. Ms. Sierra has had to withdraw from this performance due to illness.

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Philip Glass's AKHNATEN, Verdi's IL TROVATORE & More Set for The Met 2023 Live in HD Summer Encores

June 02, 2023 Beginning Wednesday, July 26, the Metropolitan Opera will present Summer Encores of past performances from its acclaimed Live in HD series of cinema presentations.

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Bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green Wins Met's 2023 Beverly Sills Artist Award

April 20, 2023 The Metropolitan Opera has named bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green the winner of the 2023 Beverly Sills Artist Award, the second time that Green has received this honor. Previously, Green shared the award with four other artists in 2021, the season that had been canceled due to the pandemic.

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Tickets on Sale for Christiane Noll & Nathan R. Matthews Led Riverside Opera Ensemble Concert

May 13, 2022 Tickets are still available for the concert presented by The Riverside Opera Ensemble at Merkin Hall featuring Tony nominee Christiane Noll (Ragtime) and Nathan R. Matthews who is producing as well as performing in the show. 

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The Metropolitan to Premiere New, Modern-Day Production of Donizetti's LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR

April 07, 2022 The Metropolitan Opera will present an audacious new production of Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, which moves the bel canto masterpiece from 18th-century Scotland to a present-day town in the American Rust Belt, with nine performances April 23–May 21, 2022.

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Lucas Meachem Makes House And Role Debut At Teatro Di San Carlo As 'Baron Scarpia' In TOSCA

April 01, 2022 It was just announced that American baritone Lucas Meachem will step in to make his role and house debut as Baron Scarpia in Teatro Di San Carlo's production of Tosca from April 20 - May 3, 2022.

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The Met Announces MADAMA BUTTERFLY, NORMA and More For Nightly Met Opera Streams

April 28, 2021 The Met has announced themed lineups for two weeks of its Nightly Met Opera Streams, the company’s ongoing series of encore Live in HD presentations and classic telecasts streamed on the its website during the coronavirus closure.

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WQXR and the Metropolitan Opera Announce the Third Season of ARIA CODE

March 10, 2021 WQXR and the Metropolitan Opera today announced a third season of the critically acclaimed opera podcast Aria Code, hailed by The New Yorker as “elegantly constructed [and] effortlessly listenable.”

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WQXR and the Metropolitan Opera Announce the Third Season of ARIA CODE

March 03, 2021 WQXR and the Metropolitan Opera today announced a third season of the opera podcast Aria Code. Hosted by MacArthur Fellow and Grammy Award–winning musician Rhiannon Giddens, Aria Code brings to life the human experience at the heart of opera through storytelling, interviews, and stellar performances from the Metropolitan Opera’s treasured archives.

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