Bringing More Diversity to Opera

WNYC News | Mar 10, 2016

The Metropolitan Opera recently announced its 2016-17 season, which will include six new productions, including one composed by a woman.

"L'Amour de Loin" was composed by Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho and will make its Met premiere on December 1st, 2016. It will mark the first time since 1903 that the Met has staged a female-written opera.

Francesca Zambello, the artistic director for the Washington National Opera and the general director of the Glimmerglass Festival, discusses diversity in opera world with WNYC's Richard Hake.

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