There’s a great deal of resentment on the part of some critics about the idea that music should be approachable,” the opera ...

By Zachary Woolfe The Metropolitan Opera’s season began not with a bang or a whimper, but with a boom. In “Grounded,” Jeanine Tesori and George Brant’s new work about a fighter pilot ...

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New York's prestigious Metropolitan Opera will open its season Monday with "Grounded," a work that explores technological evolutions of war against the backdrop of motherhood. Commissioned by the ...

The life and death of Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca, whom Fascist forces assassinated during the Spanish Civil War, is ...

Jeanine Tesori Becomes First Woman Composer to Open Met Opera Season With Reworked `Grounded' NEW YORK (AP) — Jeanine Tesori watched the world premiere run of her “Grounded” with director ...

Emily D’Angelo, a magnetic mezzo-soprano originally from Toronto, Canada, stars in the Metropolitan Opera’s contemporary work ...

Osvaldo Golijov and David Henry Hwang’s opera, inspired by the life of Federico García Lorca, arrived at the Met with a ...

Commissioned by the Met and based on a one-woman play by George Brant, the piece kicking off the opera's 2024-25 season first opened at the Washington National Opera last year.

“A tracheotomy at one point.” Tesori becomes the first woman composer to open a season in the Metropolitan Opera’s 141-year history when a revised “Grounded” starring mezzo-soprano Emily ...