Met Free Summer Concert from Jennifer on Vimeo Yesterday's Metropolitan Opera performance in Prospect Park was a hit. Opera singers--and husband and wife--Angela Gheorghiu and Roberto Alagna attracted thousands who got to hear the pair perform various arias and duets by Verdi, Puccini, Donizetti, Massenet, Catalani, and other composers. Above is a video one attendee took of the enthusiastic response from the audience and after the jump are videos another person took, via one......

Each summer the Met offers a free outdoor performance, and the one-night-only event is going down in Prospect Park later this evening. Two of the opera world's biggest stars, Angela Gheorghiu and Roberto Alagna, will be belting out duets as Ion Marin conducts the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus. Fun fact: Gheorghiu and Alagna were married backstage at the Met during a run of La Bohème in 1996...by Giuliani! Head over to the park (there's......

Annie Proulx's 1997 short story that became 2005's big screen breakout Brokeback Mountain, is finding its way to the stage. It's being reported that The New York City Opera wants to adapt the story, and Charles Wuorinen has been tapped to compose the operatic incarnation.The opera is scheduled to premiere in spring 2013, City Opera said Sunday. It will be City Opera's second Wuorinen premiere, following Haroun and the Sea of Stories, which was based......