opera
🐻 Opera featuring lesbian sex scenes, crucifixions and bloody gore leaves 18 requiring medical treatment from graphic 3-hour show
October 10, 2024 | 1:49pm"Sancta Susanna" tells the story of a suppressed nun’s journey of self-discovery and sex🐻uality, featuring shocking elements including nudity, explicit sex scenes and real injuries.
How a tubby little ﷽horse became a star of stage and screen — and the toast of NYC
September 19, 2024 | 7:28pm🦹 Billy has appeared in movies wiಌth Meryl Streep and Hugh Jackman and graced the opera stage at The Met.
Angelina Jolie bursts into tears at 'Maria' premiere — trained 7 months to be an opera singer
August 30, 2024 | 11:10amAngelina Jolie got overcome with emotion during🅠 the Venice Film Fe꧑stival, after her movie “Maria” got an 8-minute standing ovation.
NYC's Metropolitan Opera puts trigger warning on 'problematic' masterpiece in latest bow to woke culture
March 9, 2024 | 12:22pmThe opera "is rife with contradictions, distortions, and racial stereotypes," reads a program note promising "a ൩discussion of the opera’s cultural insensitivities."
The Met's new opera is the latest take on the life of civil rights icon Malcolm X
November 7, 2023 | 7:29pmThe Met just premiered the opera 🤪“X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X.”
The Democratic Party's at war with itself — and the West
November 6, 2023 | 6:46pmJoe Biden’s pa♈rty is at war with itself.
Radio station bans new Met operas over "non-biblical" and LGBTQ m💃ateri🔴al
October 1, 2023 | 2:55amWCPE, a listener-funded classical music s✃tation that serves the Raleigh-Durham area, is protesting the Met’s decision to showcase recently written wor♌ks by composers from a wide variety of racial and...
Renowned conductor allegedly pu🗹nches singer at concert for exiting wrong side of the stage
August 31, 2023 | 10:07amThe 80-year-old conductor aꦇnd friend of King Charles has come under fire for smacking around a 20-something singer after a show.
♑ Russian star sue⛎s Met Opera for $360K for dropping her after Ukraine invasion
August 6, 2023 | 3:35pmAnna Netrebko, who voiced her support for Russian President Vl𝐆adimir Putin's invasion, said the Met Opera's decision to cut ties with her has left her with ”⛎severe mental anguish and...
Opera 'Carmen' will be remade as a film — inside the dance-fueled changes
April 19, 2023 | 8:00pm“Took me six years to write this. Drama told through music — like ‘West Side Story.’ I reinvented her. More freedom. She’s not just an object of desire💜.”
Opera legend who took on the Metropolitan lisℱts NYC home for $1.44M
February 10, 2023 | 5:09pmLucine Amara, k🐻nown for roles in "Carmen" and fighting the Met over age discrimination, is parting ways withౠ an Upper West Side co-op.
How Aretha Franklin s💛aved the🦩 Grammys
February 5, 2023 | 11:00amIt had already been one hell of a night before the Queen of Soul stepped in.🧜
𒐪 Famed opera star faces new accusations of misconduct 🍷
January 16, 2023 | 1:25amShe related how Domingo allegedly askeꦐd to touch her after a rehearsal.
Russia to entertain front-line soldiers with ope﷽ra singers, circus performers
December 18, 2022 | 1:46pmKremlin officials announced a "fr🍷ont-line CREATIVE bridge" of singers and performers on Telegram Wednesday as forces ramped up attacks on civilian infrastruc🎉ture across Ukraine.
Andrea Boไcelli is on tour. Tickets are available. We found them.
December 7, 2022 | 9:56amAndrea Boc𒁏el𝔉li has 19 concerts remaining on his 2022-23 tour calendar.
David Hyde Pierce𓂃 is set for the stage 𓆉and dinner
November 16, 2022 | 8:24pm“I’m nervous. Used to acting but onstage tonight, one night only, at Carnegie? I’m r𒐪eading excerpts, rehearsed yesterday with the orchestra but I don’t really know whatthehell I’m doing.”
Royal Opera House bans audience member for heckling child actor ꩵ
November 10, 2022 | 7:28amThe child's on🎶stage debut was plagued with disruptive behavior from an audience member.
How two British opera fans saved Jewish refugeღes from Hitler’s camps
September 17, 2022 | 1:22pmA new book by Post rep🔯orter Isabel Vincent tells how two British opera fans saved Jewish musicians from the Third Reich.
US soprano offended ꧒by bl🀅ackface pulls out of Italy opera
July 16, 2022 | 4:13pmSoprano Angel Blue says she won’t perform ꦦin an opera in Italy this month because blackface was use♑d in a different work on the same stage.
CUNY student petitions to can🐲cel Emmett Till opera written by white female playwrigꦿht
March 20, 2022 | 1:47amPetition author Mya Bishop alleged the opera frames the tragedy throug🌠h the eyes of a "fictional progressive🌜 white woman," a teacher in the production.