The Metropolitan Opera has revealed its 2025–26 season, the company’s 142nd year, featuring six new productions—three of which are Met premieres—and 12 revivals. Learn more and see how to purchase ...
A concert performance of “Vanessa” freshly argued for the vitality of a work that deserves to be staged but languishes with ...
Paul Plishka, a powerful bass with a ready smile and hearty laugh who sang 1,672 performances at the Metropolitan Opera over 51 years, has died ...
Born Aug. 28, 1941, Plishka grew up in Old Forge, Pennsylvania ... on an off day at the opera house in 2005. Thomas said that in retirement he became an avid photographer of birds.
Paul Plishka, a powerful bass with a ready smile and hearty laugh who sang 1,672 performances at the Metropolitan Opera ... on an off day at the opera house in 2005. Thomas said that in retirement ...
NEW YORK — It’s a big house. The Metropolitan Opera seats nearly 4,000 people up into its fifth ... Yet, despite all the technology, Mayer’s park-and-bark staging felt so old-fashioned — from ornate ...
(AP Photo/Ronald Zak, File) Paul Plishka, a powerful bass with a ready smile and hearty laugh who sang 1,672 performances at the Metropolitan ... an off day at the opera house in 2005.