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Both Magic Flute and Good Night, and Good Luck resonate with today's turbulent political landscape.

Carolyn Starry & Marion Chalat achieved a remarkable goal during the pandemic -- they watched 497 operas streamed live by the Metropolitan Opera.

Marion Chalat and Carolyn Starry have found a life-enriching way to spend these difficult pandemic months. They've been watching and listening

People in the neighborhood have spent the pandemic engaging in all sorts of hobbies. Some, who we all secretly hate, have crunched their way to six-pack abs or learned a language.

A musician came upon a disturbing site at the Metropoitan Opera on Saturday night before the performance of Turandot, according to NYPD.

Starting Friday, the Metropolitan Opera is showing several operas in HD on a screen in the middle of Lincoln Center.

Roger Kaiser clearly made a mistake when he snuck over to the orchestra pit at the Metropolitan Opera during an intermission

The Times identified the opera fan who police say spread his mentor's ashes in the orchestra pit at the Met on Saturday, leading to a terrorism scare.

A performance of "Guillaume Tell" at the Metropolitan Opera was cancelled in the middle of the show Saturday afternoon after an audience member

The musicians and singers from the Met Opera serenaded a certain World-Series-bound baseball team in Lincoln Center, conducted

The Metropolitan Opera will screen 10 of its operas in the plaza at Lincoln Center starting this week. In a twist, the opera plans to host a movie showing on

Check out some stories written about the neighborhood in other news outlets in the past week.

The Metropolitan Opera will open its season tonight with a performance of Tchaikowsky's Eugene Onegin. The opera has been attracting protests, in part because its Russian conductor and lead soprano are supporters of Vladimir Putin, who has recently passed anti-gay laws that include a ban on all gay "propaganda." Putin ...

It's a not-so-secret secret among theater and opera fans: there are lots of inexpensive tickets available to see some great performances at Lincoln Center. In fact, it can be just about as cheap to catch a show at the Metropolitan Opera as it is to see a movie at the ...

December 19, 2011 Weather: Mostly Sunny, High of 48 Degrees.

A truly amazing scene unfolded at Lincoln Center late on Thursday night as Philip Glass' opera "Satyagraha" let out and the crowd filtered from the Metropolitan Opera House. People from Occupy Wall Street stood at the bottom of the steps below Lincoln Center's central plaza imploring the crowd leaving the ...

Famed composer Philip Glass has never simply gone with the flow, and that's one reason he's a pioneer. On Thursday night, he's expected to make another unique statement: protesting outside of his own opera Satyagraha on its last night at Lincoln Center as part of the "Occupy" movement. The protest, ...

This week, there are lots of free events on the Upper West Side, including the Metropolitan Opera's outdoor screenings of some of its most popular operas in HD. The operas will show right in the middle of Lincoln Center. Also, this week marks the beginning of Human Chess in Riverside ...