On a Saturday afternoon last December, I picked up my ticket for the Metropolitan Opera’s Falstaff and hurried down the backstage corridors to a trailer behind Lincoln Center. The crew of Live in HD, ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- In the past decade, The Metropolitan Opera has found great success transmitting operas to movie theaters 'Live in HD.' Now, one of the world's great opera singers, Renee Fleming is ...

The Metropolitan Opera High Definition broadcast of the Richard Strauss opera, “Elektra,” will be held at the Colorado Mountain College, Breckenridge, on Saturday, April 30, beginning at 11 a.m.

Puccini’s opera “Turandot’ opens Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD broadcasts for the 2019-2020 season Oct. 12 at the Whitefish Performing Arts Center. Handel’s opera “Agrippina” premiers Feb. 29 during ...

Netrebko's increasingly renowned visage and radiant voice have loomed large in high-definition from the Met since the first movie-theater telecasts during the 2006-07 season. Her performance as Adina ...

Memorial Hall in Shelburne Falls, MA moments before the live Metropolitan Opera broadcast of Wagner's "Tristan and Isolde" on Saturday. (Photo by Ken Ross) SHELBURNE FALLS - It's Saturday morning, ...

Gelb began to concoct the idea of expanding the Met's reach electronically even before he took over as general manager in 2006. As head of the American division of Sony Classical, he watched ...

(click thumbnail)The Metropolitan Opera launched its HD theater presentations with "The Magic Flute" on Dec. 30.Shortly after Peter Gelb became general manager of the New York City Metropolitan Opera ...

Officials at the Metropolitan Opera at Lincoln Center in NYC said ticket sales for next season's live (and encore) HD broadcasts in movie theaters of its 11 productions have broken a record. Over the ...

Opera tends to be a love it or hate it form of artistic expression; I fall strictly into the latter camp, since I tend to feel the vocals ruin what otherwise might be a fine piece of music. That ...