Mayor Mamdani announces 70,000 free Met Opera tickets for NYC residents
The "Opera for All" lottery will be for New Yorkers who haven't attended a performance at the Met since 2019.
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The "Opera for All" lottery will be for New Yorkers who haven't attended a performance at the Met since 2019.
Snake charmer Zoe Ziegfeld is searching for the perfect python to join her on stage for a production at the Metropolitan Opera.
The Metropolitan Opera is opening its doors to a new generation of fans this weekend for its 4th Annual Open House.
The Metropolitan Opera's planned partnership with the Saudi Arabian government is off, Met officials announced.
Ballerina Misty Copeland responded to controversial comments made by actor Timothée Chalamet when he appeared to dismiss the significance of ballet and opera, saying, "No one cares."
New York City's Metropolitan Opera will lay off 22 members of its administrative staff and temporarily cut the salaries of other employees.
Miles Mykkanen has come a long way since his musical theater dreams shifted to opera at the Juilliard School at Lincoln Center.
Peter Gelb, General Manager of the Metropolitan Opera joins CBS New York to discuss.
The Metropolitan Opera's Summer HD Festival is still going strong.
Performances run until Jan. 6.
New ticket orders, exchanges and refunds cannot be processed.
The Metropolitan Opera says it was hit by a cyberattack.
The opera says the 20-year-old New Jersey man worked in the electric construction shop.
She has performed with the opera company for 20 years.
A Russian superstar soprano will no longer perform at the Metropolitan Opera because of her past ties to Vladimir Putin.
Institution says it will not change policy until invasion of Ukraine ends and restitution is made.
The Met announced it is cutting ties with artists allied with Russia's president.
The mandate takes effect Jan. 17 for people eligible for third doses of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines or a second dose of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
People in long gowns and tuxedos gathered around the fountain outside Lincoln Center waiting to go inside to see "Fire Shut Up in My Bones" at the Met.
"Fire," with a score by jazz trumpeter and composer Terence Blanchard, will be the first opera by a Black musician presented at the Met in its 138 years.
To celebrate, the Met scheduled two free outdoor performances on Sept. 4 and 5 at Lincoln Center.
It will be the first live performance for the opera since March 2020.
The opera reached an agreement with the union that represents soloists, actors and dancers. Hundreds of stagehands, musicians and other union members, however, are still without a contract.
Levine died March 9 in Palm Springs, California, of natural causes, his physician of 17 years, Dr. Len Horovitz, said Wednesday.
Last year, more than 66 million tourists came to the Big Apple, supporting over 400,000 jobs and generating close to $73 billion.
