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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 ... on an off day at the opera house in 2005. Thomas said that in retirement ...

Prince of Denmark,” in which Côté stars, stops in Boston at the Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre, for shows on Feb. 28 and ...

Italian tenor Riccardo Massi has rapidly achieved international recognition as one of the most exciting and accomplished ...

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.