Terence Blanchard
Foo Fighters, Lizzo, Ludacris to play New Orleans Jazz Fest

By Chevel Johnson Jun. 24, 2021 04:11 PM EDT
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Foo Fighters, Lizzo, Demi Lovato, Ludacris, The Isley Brothers, Melissa Etheridge and Trombone Shorty are among the acts slated to take the...

Union member demonstrators rally outside the Metropolitan Opera house during a "We Are the Met Rally," Thursday, May 13, 2021, in New York. Locked out stagehands and unions with contracts expiring this summer demonstrated outside the Met to protest the Opera's unfair treatment of workers, lockout of stagehands and the outsourcing of work. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
Locked out stagehands protest outside Metropolitan Opera

By Ronald Blum May. 13, 2021 05:41 PM EDT

FILE - This March 12, 2020, file photo shows Josie Robertson Plaza in front of The Metropolitan Opera house, background center, at Lincoln Center in New York. On Tuesday, May 11, 2021, the Metropolitan Opera reached a tentative agreement on a four-year contract with the American Guild of Musical Artists, one of three major labor deals needed for the New York company to resume performances in September. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File)
Silenced by pandemic, Met Opera to make brief return

By The Associated Press May. 12, 2021 12:42 PM EDT

FILE - This March 12, 2020, file photo shows Josie Robertson Plaza in front of The Metropolitan Opera house, background center, at Lincoln Center in New York. On Tuesday, May 11, 2021, the Metropolitan Opera reached a tentative agreement on a four-year contract with the American Guild of Musical Artists, one of three major labor deals needed for the New York company to resume performances in September. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File)
Met Opera strikes deal with chorus ahead of restart

By Ronald Blum May. 11, 2021 09:24 PM EDT

Today in History

By The Associated Press Mar. 13, 2021 12:00 AM EST
Today in History Today is Saturday, March 13, the 72nd day of 2021. There are 293 days left in the year. Today’s...

This image provided by the Metropolitan Opera shows a scene from Terence Blanchard's "Fire Shut Up in My Bones." 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 Blanchard's "Fire Shut Up in My Bones" in the first work of a Black composer presented by the company. (Eric Woolsey/Opera Theatre of St. Louis via AP)
Met Opera skips this season, 1st Black composer opens '21-22

By Ronald Blum Sep. 23, 2020 12:02 PM EDT