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Metropolitan Opera New York

Finnish-US tenor Miles Mykkanen as Sam Clay and Polish baritone Andrzej Filonczyk as Joe Kavalier, perform during the final dress rehearsal of Mason Bates' "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay" at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, September 18, 2025. (Timothy A. Clary/AFP)
September 25, 2025, 6:27 am
Met season opens with new opera based on Michael Chabon’s ‘Kavalier & Clay’
Novel about two Jewish cousins in World War II-era Brooklyn is focus of new opera starring Miles Mykkanen and Andrzej Filończyk
By mike silverman
FILE: James Levine conducts the Boston Symphony Orchestra on its opening night performance at Tanglewood in Lenox, Mass. on July 7, 2006. Levine, who ruled over the Metropolitan Opera for 4 1/2 decades before being eased out when his health declined and then fired for sexual improprieties, died March 9, 2021 in Palm Springs, Calif., of natural causes, his physician of 17 years, Dr. Len Horovitz, said Wednesday, March 17. He was 77. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)
March 17, 2021, 9:46 pm
Conductor James Levine, who was fired for sexual misconduct, dies at 77
A leading figure of New York’s Metropolitan Opera for decades, he was dismissed in 2017 when an investigation found evidence of ‘abusive and harassing conduct’
By Ronald Blum
Boston Symphony Orchestra music director James Levine conducts the symphony on its opening night performance at Tanglewood in Lenox., Massachusetts on July 7, 2006. (AP/Michael Dwyer)
December 3, 2017, 7:52 am
NY’s Met to probe sexual misconduct claims against longtime conductor
Opera to open own investigation after James Levine accused of abusing teenager three decades ago
By AP
Police respond to New York's Metropolitan Opera which halted a performance after someone sprinkled an unknown powder into the orchestra pit, Saturday, Oct. 29, 2016. (Dylan Hayden via AP)
October 30, 2016, 4:17 am
NY opera terror scare ends as strange powder is said to be human ashes
Metropolitan Opera evacuated after audience member sprinkled unknown substance into orchestra pit
By Karen Matthews and JULIE WALKER
People, some in wheelchairs, gather at Lincoln Center as they protest "Death of Klinghoffer" Monday, Oct 20, 2014, in New York. (Photo credit: AP/Craig Ruttle)
October 22, 2014, 6:02 am
‘Klinghoffer’ ticket holders talk back
Show-goers feel unfairly judged by those who didn’t see the opera which protesters say is anti-Semitic, sympathetic to terrorists
By Raffi Wineburg
A protester outside of the New York Metropolitan Opera House's October 20, 2014, premiere performance of the controversial 'Death of Klinghoffer' (Jordan Hoffman/The Times of Israel)
October 21, 2014, 10:49 am
Passionate ‘Klinghoffer’ protest outshines lackluster premiere
Times of Israel reviewer, who was close to falling asleep during the opera, wonders if all the fuss over anti-Semitism was justified
By Jordan Hoffman
People, some in wheelchairs, gather at Lincoln Center, with the Metropolitan Opera House in the background, as they protest 'Death of Klinghoffer' Monday, Oct 20, 2014, in New York. (Photo credit: AP/Craig Ruttle)
October 21, 2014, 6:49 am
Standing ovation for Met ‘Klinghoffer’ despite protest
Opening night’s performance interrupted with boos, shouts; NY mayor says rights of cultural institutions must be respected
By Marissa Newman, Lazar Berman and AP
People, some in wheelchairs, gather at Lincoln Center as they protest "Death of Klinghoffer" Monday, Oct 20, 2014, in New York. (Photo credit: AP/Craig Ruttle)
October 21, 2014, 3:35 am
US politicians join protesters at Met ‘Klinghoffer’ opening
Some 400 people gather outside barricades to chant against company; hecklers disrupt first act of opera
By Marissa Newman, Lazar Berman and AP
Demonstrators in New York protesting the Metropolitan Opera's decision to produce 'The Death of Klinghoffer,' September 22, 2014. (Raffi Wineburg)
October 20, 2014, 9:50 am
Large protests expected at Met ‘Klinghoffer’ opening Monday
100 wheelchairs to be set up outside Manhattan’s Lincoln Center in memory of handicapped murder victim; rabbis to host prayer vigil
By Marissa Newman and Lazar Berman
In this image released by the Metropolitan Opera, Maya Lahyani as the Palestinian Woman, standing, and Jesse Kovarsky as Omar, perform in 'The Death of Klinghoffer,' at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. (photo credit: AP/Metropolitan Opera, Ken Howard)
October 15, 2014, 6:59 pm
Met to present ‘Klinghoffer’ opera, undeterred by charge it glorifies terrorism
Daughters of disabled US Jew, murdered by Palestinian terrorists in 1985, say the work ‘presents false moral equivalencies without context,’ and ‘rationalizes, romanticizes, and legitimizes’ the killing
By mike silverman
Protestors attend the arrivals at Metropolitan Opera 2014-15 Season Opening on Monday, Sept. 22, 2014, in New York. The crowd was protesting the Met's decision to premiere a controversial opera 'Death of Klinghoffer,' about the hijacking of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro and the murder of Jewish passenger Leon Klinghoffer. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
October 15, 2014, 5:47 pm
NY ‘Klinghoffer’ teach-in warns of slippery anti-Semitic slope
Staging controversial opera, due to debut October 20 at NY’s Met, is like putting on a production of an ISIS beheading, critics say
By ToI Staff
Protestors attend the arrivals at Metropolitan Opera 2014-15 Season Opening on Monday, Sept. 22, 2014, in New York. The crowd was protesting the Met's decision to premiere a controversial opera 'Death of Klinghoffer,' about the hijacking of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro and the murder of Jewish passenger Leon Klinghoffer. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
September 24, 2014, 4:48 pm
At opening night ‘Klinghoffer’ protest, Met meets angry Jews
The 1991 John Adams opera depicts the 1985 hijacking of an Italian cruise ship by Palestinian terrorists which ended with the murder of Leon Klinghoffer
By Raffi Wineburg
Ioan Holender, 79 years-old, turns to the audience while sitting in the jury of an opera performers competition in Bucharest, Romania, June 26, 2014. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
July 8, 2014, 12:08 pm
Ex-Opera director Holender still calling the tunes
Jewish musician an adviser to the Metropolitan Opera New York, among others
By Alison Mutler
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