The biggest drama leading up to the 98th Academy Awards came courtesy of actor Timothée Chalamet, who incited a cultural storm with a dismissive comment about opera and ballet.

Audiences packed the house for a new production of “Tristan und Isolde.” They also came prepared, with (at least) five different forms of coffee.

Timothée Chalamet’s controversial claim that “no one cares” about opera touched a nerve. But the actor may not be totally off ...

A week prior, I called him on the phone to learn more about how the Met manages to feed the thousands of people in its halls, ...

The Metropolitan Opera’s 2025-26 season of Saturday matinee radio broadcasts continues with Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde ...

The MN Opera has unveiled plans for its 64th season, which will feature three operas, including a world premiere based on a heralded comic book series.

By my count, Philip Glass has written 28 operas, the same number as Verdi. The count is iffy because Glass pushes the boundaries between what we tend ...

"I don't want to be working in ballet, or opera, or things where it's like, 'Hey, keep this thing alive, even though like no one cares about this anymore,'" Chalamet said Charlotte Phillipp is a ...

Chalamet drew criticism for suggesting that ballet and opera are disciplines that "no one cares about." Timothée Chalamet drew criticism for suggesting that ballet and opera are disciplines that "no ...

Timothée Chalamet drew criticism for suggesting that ballet and opera are disciplines that "no one cares about." The Metropolitan Opera posted a video highlighting the talents of the opera community ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Metropolitan Opera issued a response on TikTok addressing Timothée Chalamet’s recent remarks panning ballet and the opera as ...

NEW YORK — In his book on reinventing opera, director Yuval Sharon describes “Tristan und Isolde” as “the single hardest work in the traditional repertoire to stage.” Yet here he is, about to make his ...