The Met's new lineup includes Lucia di Lammermoor and all three parts of the Tudor trilogy. Each opera becomes available on the Metropolitan Opera's website at 7:30pm EDT (12:30am BST) and stays there ...

What is the best way to start 2025? It is to attend a concert featuring the music from one of the most popular operas in the world and to escape the cold weather by immersing in the warmth and passion ...

For more than nine decades, the Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcasts have brought opera into millions of homes, playing a vital and unparalleled role in the development and appreciation of opera in ...

Italian opera composer’s lost works to be performed in London after discovery by British musicologist Up to 90 previously unknown songs by one of classical music’s greatest composers, Gaetano ...

Donizetti’s Don Pasquale, in contrast, rumbles across the stage as the last in a distinguished succession of basso buffo roles that rose in the second quarter of the 18th century and persisted for ...

In Act Two, a lovesick Nemorino sings the bittersweet aria "Una furtiva lagrima." He sees "one furtive teardrop" in Adina's eye, a sign that he may still have a chance with her, and says he'd sooner ...

With blood-stained dagger in hand, Lucie wanders, disorientedly, amid the wedding guests, apparently unaware that she'd just murdered her finace. Sarah Coburn sings an excerpt of one of opera's ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. And still they come. It is half a century since the first stirrings of interest in the neglected operas of ...