Figaro and his betrothed Susanna are preparing for their wedding day. The Count, Figaro's master, has plans to use his ancient right to sleep with Susanna on their wedding night. The couple and the Countess plot to keep the Count at bay.
Live performance from the Metropolitan Opera, 27 February, 1996.
Live performance from the Metropolitan Opera, 31 December 1986.
This John Dexter production, designed by Desmond Heeley, was a parting gift to the great American so...
Music Director James Levine conducts his first new Met production after a two-year absence: Robert C...
David McVicar’s inventive hit production of Handel’s most popular opera sets the story of Caesar’s c...
Stephen Wadsworth’s production of Mussorgsky’s epic masterpiece brilliantly captures the suffering a...
Live performance from the Metropolitan Opera, March 1, 2014. Absent from the Met stage since 1917, ...
Met Music director James Levine conducts a cast of youthful stars in Mozart’s sophisticated comedy a...
The gorgeous and evocative Otto Schenk/Günther Schneider-Siemssen production continues with this sec...
Siegfried is the third of the four operas that constitute Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the N...
When the most voluptuous, sought-after courtesan in the world meets an ascetic monk whose life is de...
Live from the Metropolitan Opera, 14 February 1980. This version takes place in Boston rather than S...
The Met’s spectacular production of Verdi’s Egyptian epic captures both the grandeur and the intimac...
An Egyptian military commander, Radamès, struggles to choose between his love for the enslaved Ethio...
Die Walküre (The Valkyrie), WWV 86B, is an opera in three acts by Richard Wagner with a German libre...
Richard Strauss's opera, from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
Live performance from the Opéra National de Paris, 2003.