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, ...

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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... What began in December 2006 as a daring idea to bring live, high-definition broadcasts of Metropolitan Opera productions into movie theaters worldwide has ...

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 ...

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 ...

You just know that if times are tough for consumer electronics, they're really bleak for public schools. With that in mind, we're calling out the bright spot that is The Metropolitan Opera's "HD Live ...