The Metropolitan Opera's revival of Tchaikovsky’s *The Queen of Spades*, which opened on Friday, May 23, 2025, offered a ...

While creating the costumes for a new opera adaptation of “The Hours ... a new opera by Kevin Puts that had its premiere at the Met on Tuesday, it was just for the sets.

In an audacious bit of counterprogramming, the Met is currently staging the longest opera in its repertory ... by Günther Schneider-Siemssen; 370 costumes; and a mighty 91-person orchestra.

Photo: Ken Howard / Met Opera Florencia’s return home is also ... and Ana Kuzmanić’s jaw-dropping costumes, Florencia is a feast for the eyes. Certain visual flourishes—a heron-dancer ...

You can expect an over-the-top experience during a night out at the Met opera from the moment you ... “One of the costumes has these stripes that are inspired by the caterpillar,” Kuzmanić ...

Surrealistically garish sets and costumes by Paul Brown ... got electrifying playing from the Met orchestra. It was a powerful afternoon at the opera. Former staff classical music critic Scott ...

and costumes constructed in New York and Hong Kong. Because of the change, technical rehearsals were postponed from August to February. Girard is directing his third Wagner opera at the Met ...

If “operatic” is a synonym for “big,” Herman Melville’s sprawling novel “Moby-Dick” should be ideal source material for the stage. Jake Heggie’s 2010 operatic treatment certainly ...

(Revivals, when the Met Opera brings back a previously used staging ... Mayer’s park-and-bark staging felt so old-fashioned — from ornate arch-traditionalist costumes to an at-times resplendent yet ...

And I was really interested and inspired by Montana's costumes. There's one where ... In My Bones" when it premiered here at The Met, the first opera composed by an African-American here at ...