(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 ...

Would the public pay good money to see live (and recorded "encore") broadcasts of Metropolitan Opera productions from Lincoln Center in New York City? On the big screen in movie theaters? In HD? Well, ...

The Metropolitan Opera, the largest opera company in the United States, is struggling. Its ticket sales are way down — to 66 percent of capacity last season. Its general director, Peter Gelb, has had ...

Netrebko's increasingly renowned visage and radiant voice have loomed large in high-definition from the Met since the first movie-theater telecasts during the 2006-07 season. Her performance as Adina ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

The Metropolitan Opera High Definition broadcast of the Richard Strauss opera, “Elektra,” will be held at the Colorado Mountain College, Breckenridge, on Saturday, April 30, beginning at 11 a.m.