<div id="subtitle">Nico Muhly commissioned by Met and ENO to write Internet-themed opera</div><div><p>Talk about modern opera.</p><p>Nico Muhly, a 28-year-old composer based in New York, has been commissioned to create a fictionalized account of a British teenager who used the Internet ...

<div id="subtitle">NYC's Metropolitan Opera scales back 2009-2010 season because of worsening economy</div><div><p>The Metropolitan Opera announced eight new productions Tuesday for its 2009-2010 season — including a rarely heard Verdi work with costumes by Italian fashion legend Miuccia Prada — but said it was dropping four others and ...

<div id="subtitle">APNewsBreak: Met Opera to cut `The Ghosts of Versailles' to cut costs</div><div><p>The Metropolitan Opera is giving up "The Ghosts."</p><p>Cutting costs in the wake of the economic downturn, the Met is dropping next season's highly anticipated revival of ...

<div id="subtitle">Opera director Robert Lepage prepared for Wagner's Ring Cycle in Las Vegas</div><div><p>To prepare for his Metropolitan Opera debut, Robert Lepage went to Las Vegas.</p><p>The Canadian director perfected "the toys," as he called his technological gadgets, while preparing ...