On a Saturday afternoon last December, I picked up my ticket for the Metropolitan Opera’s Falstaff and hurried down the backstage corridors to a trailer behind Lincoln Center. The crew of Live in HD, ...

What began in December 2006 as a daring idea to bring live, high-definition broadcasts of Metropolitan Opera productions into movie theaters worldwide has turned into a snowballing cultural phenomenon ...

Gelb began to concoct the idea of expanding the Met's reach electronically even before he took over as general manager in 2006. As head of the American division of Sony Classical, he watched ...

The Metropolitan Opera's new production of Bellini's La Sonnambula marks the beginning of the 19th season of The Met: Live in HD on Saturday, October 18, at 1PM ET, with soprano Nadine Sierra making ...

(click thumbnail)The Metropolitan Opera launched its HD theater presentations with "The Magic Flute" on Dec. 30.Shortly after Peter Gelb became general manager of the New York City Metropolitan Opera ...

Summer reruns are not limited to your favorite prime-time TV shows. Opera fans also will have another opportunity to see performances they might have missed the first time around —or productions they ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- In the past decade, The Metropolitan Opera has found great success transmitting operas to movie theaters 'Live in HD.' Now, one of the world's great opera singers, Renee Fleming is ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The Met brings back “Carmen” with Aigul Akhmetshina on Jan. 27. (Provided by The Met) When the New York City-based Metropolitan Opera began broadcasting live ...

Russian soprano Anna Netrebko, one of the most exciting voices on the opera stage, sings the title role of Manon for the first time in her career in the new Metropolitan Opera production, which will ...