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(Photo: Louis Mélançon / Met Archives) Saturday March 1st: The Metropolitan Opera, New York presents Bizet's Carmen Bizet's Carmen is an opera in four acts. The libretto was written by Henri ...

Heartbeat Opera specializes in daring reductions of the classics, and this may be its most implausible undertaking yet.

Airs Saturdays at 1 pm during the Metropolitan Opera season.

Opera aficionados recommend listening to clips of the opera online via YouTube, Spotify or other sites beforehand.

39.5 x 25.5 in. (100.3 x 64.8 cm.) ...

4, 1998. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak, File) Paul Plishka, a powerful bass with a ready smile and hearty laugh who sang 1,672 performances at the Metropolitan Opera over 51 years, has died. He was 83. Plishka ...

The Metropolitan Opera has announced a cast change for its Jan. 16 performance of “Rigoletto.” The company said, “For tonight’s performance of Verdi’s ‘Rigoletto,’ the role of the Duke of Mantua will ...

The Metropolitan Opera is set to present Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s “Moby-Dick” for the first time. The company premiere will feature the opera’s original staging directed by Leonard Foglia, in his ...

when he was 16. He attended Eastside High School and was directed toward opera by a teacher after he performed Jud Fry in “Oklahoma!” Plishka majored in music at Montclair State College and ...