NEW YORK (AP) — Despite encouraging box office figures for the season’s first half, the financially strapped Metropolitan Opera scaled back its 2026-27 schedule with its fewest productions in at least ...

Peter Gelb (standing) at a gala honoring Daisy Soros, seated with her son Jeffrey. Photo: Jenny Gorman/Met Opera “It was not a difficult decision,” Metropolitan Opera general manager Peter Gelb says ...

Performances in N.Y.C. The Metropolitan Opera’s new production of Bellini’s “I Puritani,” directed by Charles Edwards, is “a retro move,” said Peter Gelb, the Met’s general manager. The Metropolitan ...

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If I were allowed to be a chorus member in any Met opera production, my first choice very well might be Laurent Pelly’s La Fille du Regiment. Who wouldn’t want to be a saucepan-helmeted townsperson, a ...

Performances in N.Y.C. 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.