Two singers at the height of their powers—radiant soprano Nadine Sierra and tenor sensation Benjamin Bernheim—come together as the star-crossed lovers in Gounod’s sumptuous Shakespeare adaptation, with Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin on the podium to conduct one of the repertoire’s most romantic scores. Bartlett Sher’s elegant staging also features baritone Will Liverman and tenor Frederick Ballentine as the archrivals Mercutio and Tybalt, mezzo-soprano Samantha Hankey as the mischievous pageboy Stéphano, and bass-baritone Alfred Walker as Frère Laurent.

There are elements of Eurotrash in this outdoor Aix-en-Provence summer opera production. Nevertheles...

Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs pr...

In director Baz Luhrmann's contemporary take on William Shakespeare's classic tragedy, the Montagues...

Young lovers Sailor and Lula hit the road to start a new life together away from the wrath of Lula’s...

The grand scale and magnificent acoustics of the Roman arena in Verona are ideally suited to the pag...

In this story-within-a-story, Anna is an actress starring opposite Mike in a period piece about the ...

"Orango" - prologue to an unfinished opera by Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975), conducted by Esa-Pekk...

A love story set in a rural backdrop between a poor village boy, Suri, and a rich upper class girl, ...

A lyric tragedy in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti, libretto by Salvatore Cammarano. Roberto Devereu...

Mozart's La Clemenza Di Tito was originally commissioned to celebrate the coronation of the Emperor ...

Charles Mackerras teases the romantic beauty from Gounod's score, which has been widely admired sinc...

Turn of the century Paris provides the glittering setting for this light hearted tale of political a...

A delightful fairy tale, Mozart's final operatic legacy remains a great work in the spirit of the En...

Fleeing the war, the immortal Machia, graced with eternal youth, finds a baby abandoned in the fores...

A 1985 performance of Luchino Visconti's 1958 staging for the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Bern...
Smetana's penultimate opera premiered on September 18, 1878, at the New Czech Theater. At the Nation...