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Four Takeaways From the Metropolitan Opera’s Risky Season

The company has bet that new operas will attract new, more diverse audiences and revitalize a stale repertory. Is the gamble paying off?

By Zachary Woolfe

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Audiences Are Returning to the Met Opera, but Not for Everything

The Met is approaching prepandemic levels of attendance. But its strategy of staging more modern operas to lure new audiences is having mixed success.

By Javier C. Hernandez

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Can Marin Alsop Shatter Another Glass Ceiling?

Alsop has had enviable success, and was the first female conductor to lead a top American orchestra. She wants to take another step up.

By Zachary Woolfe

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Review: John Adams’s ‘El Niño’ Arrives at the Met in Lush Glory

The opera-oratorio, an alternate Nativity story, featured a flurry of Met debuts, including the director Lileana Blain-Cruz and the conductor Marin Alsop.

By Oussama Zahr

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