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This image released by the Metropolitan Opera shows Daniele Rustioni conducting the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra during a rehearsal on Feb. 9, 2023 in New York. (Jonathan Tichler/Metropolitan Opera via AP, File)

Daniele Rustioni to become Metropolitan Opera’s principal guest conductor

By Ronald Blum - Associated Press

Soprano Anna Netrebko attends a news conference on the premiere of Manon Lescaut in the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow, Russia on Oct. 14, 2016. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

Anna Netrebko to sing at Palm Beach Opera gala in first U.S. appearance since 2019

By Ronald Blum - Associated Press

Soprano Anna Netrebko attends a news conference on the premiere of Manon Lescaut in the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow, Russia on Oct. 14, 2016. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

In first U.S. appearance since 2019, Anna Netrebko to sing at Palm Beach Opera gala

By Ronald Blum - Associated Press

People appear in Josie Robertson Plaza in front of The Metropolitan Opera house at Lincoln Center in New York on March 12, 2020. . (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File)

Metropolitan Ope in N.Y. sold 72% of its available tickets this season, highest since pandemic

By Ronald Blum - Associated Press

Russian soprano Anna Netrebko bows to the audience at the end of La Scala opera house's gala season opener, Giacomo Puccini's opera "Tosca" at the Milan La Scala theater, Italy, on Dec. 7, 2019. Soprano Netrebko, once among the Metropolitan Opera’s biggest box office draws, sued the company and general manager Peter Gelb on Friday, Aug. 4, 2023, alleging defamation, breach of contract and other violations related to the institution's decision to drop her following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno, File)

Star soprano Anna Netrebko sues Met Opera over its decision to cut ties over Russia-Ukraine war

By Ronald Blum - Associated Press

This photo provided by Metropolitan Opera, Met music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads mezzo-soprano Emily D’Angelo, soprano Golda Schultz, tenor Dmytro Popov, and bass-baritone Vladyslav Buialskyi in the National Anthem of Ukraine during "For Ukraine: A Concert of Remembrance and Hope" on Friday, Feb. 24, 2023 in New York. (Evan Zimmerman/Metropolitan Opera via AP)

Met Opera marks 1st year of Ukraine war with concert

By Ronald Blum - Associated Press

Ukraine's flag is draped outside The Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York before a benefit for Ukraine concert, Monday, March 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Ron Blum)

Metropolitan Opera holds special benefit concert for Ukraine

By Ronald Blum - Associated Press

Met Opera, ENO to coproduce Wagner’s Ring by Richard Jones

By RONALD BLUM - Associated Press

FILE - This March 12, 2020 file photo shows people by the fountain at Josie Robertson Plaza in front of The Metropolitan Opera house at Lincoln Center in New York. The Metropolitan Opera’s operating revenue dropped by $25 million to $150 million in the fiscal year ending July 31, a season shortened due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, but the company avoided an operating loss with its fundraising and borrowing. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File)

Met Opera’s revenue drops, breaks even with gifts, borrowing

By RONALD BLUM - Associated Press

FILE - Terence Blanchard poses for a portrait at the 91st Academy Awards Nominees Luncheon on Feb. 4, 2019, in Beverly Hills, Calif. The Metropolitan Opera will skip an entire season for the first time in its nearly 140-year history due to the novel coronavirus and intends to start the 2021-22 season with Terence Blanchard's &quot;Fire Shut Up in My Bones&quot; in the first work of a Black composer presented by the company. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)

Met Opera skips this season, 1st Black composer opens ‘21-22

By RONALD BLUM - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 1, 2014, file photo, pedestrians make their way in front of the Metropolitan Opera house at New York's Lincoln Center. Met Opera will delay opening night of the season to Dec. 31, calling off four of five new productions, eliminating February break. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

Met Opera cuts season by 3 1/2 months, to shorten some shows

By RONALD BLUM - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 5, 2011 file photo, Yannick Nezet-Seguin, the music director for The Philadelphia Orchestra, poses for a portrait in Philadelphia. Nézet-Séguin’s income from the Metropolitan Opera in his first season as music director was about a quarter of what James Levine earned in his last full season as music director emeritus. His compensation in the 2018-19 fiscal year was $392,152, according to the company’s tax return released Friday. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Nézet-Séguin got $392,152 in initial part of 1st Met season

By RONALD BLUM - Associated Press

FILE - This Jan. 3, 1984 file photo shows John Macurdy as Radames after a performance of Giuseppe Verdi's &quot;Aida&quot; in New York. Macurdy, a bass who sang 1,001 performances at the Metropolitan Opera over four decades and created roles in several world premieres, died on May 7, 2020 in Stamford, Connecticut. He was 91. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

John Macurdy, bass who sang 1,001 times at Met, dies at 91

By RONALD BLUM - Associated Press

FILE - This Oct. 26, 1959 file photo shows American mezzo-soprano Rosalind Elias arriving at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York to attend a performance of Verdi's &quot;Il Trovatore.&quot; Elias, who created roles in a pair of Samuel Barber world premieres and made her Broadway debut at age 81, died Sunday May 3, 2020. She was 90. (AP Photo/Ray Howard, File)

Rosalind Elias dies at 90; made Broadway debut at 81

By RONALD BLUM - Associated Press

This combination photo shows opera singers, from left, Renée Fleming, French tenor Roberto Alagna, Russian Soprano Anna Netrebko and Welsh bass-baritone Bryn Terfel, who are among 38 opera stars in 13 nations scheduled for the Metropolitan Opera’s At-Home gala, which will be streamed live on April 25 starting at 1 p.m. EDT. (AP Photo)

Fleming, Netrebko, Kaufmann headline Met Opera on-line gala

By RONALD BLUM - Associated Press

Show goes on: DiDonato, Beczala sing opera from apartment

By RONALD BLUM - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 1, 2014, file photo, pedestrians make their way in front of the Metropolitan Opera house at New York's Lincoln Center. The Metropolitan Opera has instituted quarantines for artists and employees traveling to New York from areas impacted by the new coronavirus. (AP Poto/John Minchillo, File)

Met Opera institutes 14-day quarantine for some due to virus

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This undated photo provided by the Metropolitan Opera shows set model by Jan Versweyveld for the new production of Jake Heggie's &quot;Dead Man Walking.&quot; After years of pushing, Joyce DiDonato has been granted a big wish: The Metropolitan Opera is mounting Jake Heggie's &quot;Dead Man Walking&quot; for the mezzo-soprano next season. (Aram Kim/ Metropolitan Opera via AP)

Heggie’s `Dead Man Walking’ gets Met Opera premiere in 20-21

By RONALD BLUM - Associated Press

Nikitin replaces Terfel at Wagner’s Dutchman at Met Opera

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

FILE - This April 3, 2012 file photo shows Bryn Terfel performing during the Revlon Concert for the Rainforest Fund at Carnegie Hall in New York. Terfel broke an ankle in three places and will have surgery this week, putting into doubt his scheduled return to the Metropolitan Opera for the first time since 2012. The 54-year-old Welsh bass-baritone is scheduled to star in a new production of Wagner's &quot;Die Fliegende Hollaender (The Flying Dutchman)&quot; that opens March 2. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow, File)

Famed Welsh singer Bryn Terfel breaks ankle in three places

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