The Met has looked to a foreign government, to new strategies, even to outer space, in its scramble to find money to sustain the country’s largest performing arts organization.

In a lounge beneath the Metropolitan Opera, the towering Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen is the picture of calm. “My husband jokes I am like a pressure cooker,” she says with a laugh, sitting pin-straight on a sofa. (Standing, she’s an astonishing six-foot-two.) “I tend to save up emotions, positive or negative. But it can explode!”

Opera director Yuval Sharon has said that Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde” is the hardest work in the traditional repertoire to stage.

Michael Spyres, an Ozarks native and international opera star, will sing the role of Tristan in the Metropolitan Opera’s live cinema production of Wagner’s “Tristan and

Timothée Chalamet is getting heat for some ugly remarks he made about the opera & ballet industry -- and he's even pissed off perhaps the most famous opera house in the world! The Metropolitan Opera

Timothée Chalamet beefing with the Metropolitan Opera, LA Opera and Royal Ballet was not on anyone's 2026 bingo card. Chalamet, 30, raised eyebrows after making an off-handed comment about the performing arts community during an onstage conversation with Variety,