Met performances of Strauss’s white-hot one-act tragedy, which receives its first new production at the company in 20 years. Claus Guth, one of Europe’s leading opera directors, gives the biblical story—already filtered through the beautiful and strange imagination of Oscar Wilde’s play—a psychologically perceptive Victorian-era setting rich in symbolism and subtle shades of darkness and light.
An Egyptian military commander, Radamès, struggles to choose between his love for the enslaved Ethio...
Christine Goerke has wowed audiences as Turandot, the icy princess at the heart of Puccini’s grand f...
Massenet’s tale of passion, excess, and their consequences stars rising soprano Lisette Oropesa in t...
Ever since it opened the 2006–07 season, Anthony Minghella’s striking production of Madama Butterfly...
The Gershwins’ modern American masterpiece has its first Met performances in almost three decades, s...
The Met’s spectacular production of Verdi’s Egyptian epic captures both the grandeur and the intimac...
David McVicar's exhilarating new production, with Anne Sofie von Otter in the title role, restores t...
After the acclaimed Met premiere of Thomas Adès's "The Tempest" in 2012, the composer returned with ...
Sir David McVicar’s bold new staging of Tosca, Puccini’s operatic thriller of Napoleonic Rome, thril...
A rarely performed bel canto gem, Rossini’s Semiramide returned to the Met for the first time in nea...
Premiered immediately before the enduring masterpieces Rigoletto, Il Trovatore, and La Traviata, Lui...
Live performance from the Schwetzinger Festspiele, 1987. At the age of 21, Italian composer Giacchin...
All the throbbing eroticism—and ultimate heartbreak—of Puccini’s youthful score is unleashed by Jame...
The story follows Vivian's life from young girl through two marriages, divorce, liberation and class...
This is a joy from beginning to end. Although there are many tricks and ideas from Laurent Pelly, as...
Among DVDs of "Hoffmann" currently available, this is the only one that even begins to stand compari...
The complete version of Verdi's Otello performed by Placido Domingo and Kiri Te Kanawa, at the Royal...
Diana Damrau and Vittorio Grigolo are opera’s classic lovers in Gounod’s lush Shakespeare adaptation...
The legendary Plácido Domingo brings another new baritone role to the Met under the baton of his lon...
Die Walküre (The Valkyrie), WWV 86B, is an opera in three acts by Richard Wagner with a German libre...