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With contemporary music dominating new productions and returning in some revivals, the Met is entering a new era of programming.

Hit hard by a cash shortfall and lackluster ticket sales as it tries to lure audiences back amid the pandemic, the Metropolitan Opera said Monday that

Facing tepid ticket sales, the company will withdraw up to $30 million from its endowment and stage more operas by living composers, which have been outselling the classics.

Although ticket sales for the 2021-22 season fell by nearly $1 million, advance sales for the next season are strong

In partnership with the Merola Opera Program

Lush, lyrical, and romantic works by Latin American and Spanish composers will be showcased in the Schwabacher Summer Concert, when the young artists of the 2022 Merola Opera Program perform vibrant operatic scenes by distinguished composers Daniel Catán, Manuel de Falla, Osvaldo Golijov, and Amadeo Vives.

Based on a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne and later turned into a play by Octavio Paz, “La hija de Rappaccini” is a tale of science vs nature.

Tuesday night, a special concert is scheduled at Moores Opera Center to celebrate and say goodbye to Buck Ross, the founder and artistic director of the program.  After 37 years, he is retiring, a departure of his own choosing. There will be video retrospectives and guest performances and the entire event is free.

New York City Opera co-presents a work commissioned by the Théatre du Chatelet, Angels in America at the Salzburg State Theatre in Salzburg, Austria. Libretto by Mari Mezei, in English with German surtitles.

New York City Opera will present Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's thrilling double bill, The Seven Deadly Sins & Mahagonny Songspiel, for the first time ever told as one story, a tragic fable for today.