Last year, the Metropolitan Opera hosted the North American premiere of The Exterminating Angel, Thomas Adès and Tom Cairns’s adaptation of the 1962 Luis Buñuel film. At the time, I wrote that ...

On Friday, Oct. 19, onstage at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, a man manipulated and attempted to rape a woman. It's a scene that occurs in so many operas, it's practically a trope (even the ...

Marnie closes out a month long set of classical music programming from Great Performances and Great Performances at the Met, including The Cleveland Orchestra Centennial Gala (January 11), Orphée et ...

1 Opera San José to Bring Free Outdoor Concert to San José Municipal Rose Garden The Metropolitan Opera presents the North American premiere of Marnie, an original Met commission by composer Nico ...

Marnie is a 1964 psychological thriller by Alfred Hitchcock, based on the Winston Graham novel of 1961. The opera looks more to the novel than the film (although the programme declares the production ...

Composer Nico Muhly unveils his second new opera for the Met with this gripping reimagining of Winston Graham's novel, set in the 1950s, about a beautiful, mysterious young woman who assumes multiple ...

Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter It’s lucky that Joseph Kerman, the critic who famously dismissed Tosca as a “Shabby little shocker”, didn’t live to see Nico Muhly’s ...

“Didone,” “Norma,” “Tosca,” “Salome,” “Elektra,” “Lulu”: the operatic repertory overflows with works that take their title from a doomed female character, one who is made to undergo a kind of ritual ...