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Boston Symphony Orchestra has revealed its 2024-25 season.

NEWBURYPORT — The Metropolitan Opera’s 2023-24 season of matinee broadcasts continues Saturday at noon with “Tannhäuser”, Wagner’s drama about a legendary song contest and the struggle for a man’s soul.

Considered one of the world’s leading Heldentenors, Schager was last seen at the Metropolitan Opera in 2019 in the Ring Cycle .

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A German baritone was signing of a "miraculous spring" when activists interrupted the performance for over 20 minutes.

All that was missing were shouts of “food fight!” to turn last night’s performance of Richard Wagner’s TANNHAUSER—the first of the Met’s season—into a version of National Lampoon’s Night at the Opera, as climate activists interrupted the house debut of the great baritone Christian Gerhaher, and audience members traded barbs with the demonstrators, threatening the company’s determination that “the show must go on.”

Climate protestors hijacked the second act of the opera and patrons responded with vocal displays of their own.

“No opera on a dead planet,” shouted the protesters during the second act of Wagner’s Tannhäuser at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York.

NEW YORK (AP) — Climate protesters caused a pair of interruptions totaling 22 minutes during the opening night of a revival of Wagner's “Tannhäuser” at the Metropolitan Opera.

A revival of Wagner’s “Tannhäuser” was notable for the arrival of Christian Gerhaher. But with an abrupt protest, the performance took a turn.