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.
Mezzo-soprano Aigul Akhmetshina headlines a winning ensemble as the feisty heroine, Rosina, alongsid...
Richard Strauss's opera, from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
American composer Jake Heggie’s compelling masterpiece, the most widely performed new opera of the l...
Anthony Davis’s groundbreaking and influential opera, which premiered in 1986, arrives at the Met at...
Two singers at the height of their powers—radiant soprano Nadine Sierra and tenor sensation Benjamin...
John Adams’s mesmerizing score, in the powerful production of Penny Woolcock, tells the story of one...
Siegfried is the third of the four operas that constitute Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the N...
The pain of unrequited love is portrayed unforgettably by two of today’s greatest stars. Renée Flemi...
"La Bohème" is one of Giacomo Puccini's most popular and timeless works and the second-most performe...
The legendary Plácido Domingo brings another new baritone role to the Met under the baton of his lon...
David McVicar's exhilarating new production, with Anne Sofie von Otter in the title role, restores t...
Christine Goerke has wowed audiences as Turandot, the icy princess at the heart of Puccini’s grand f...
Philip Glass’ opera “Akhnaten”, premiered in Stuttgart in 1984, forms the third part of the portrait...
An Egyptian military commander, Radamès, struggles to choose between his love for the enslaved Ethio...
The Queen of the Night enlists a handsome prince named Tamino to rescue her beautiful kidnapped daug...
What happened to Figaro and his friends after the events told in Rossini’s and Mozart’s operas? One ...
Giancarlo Del Monaco's passionate and intelligent production of Jacques Offenbach's magnum opus crea...
The complete version of Verdi's Otello performed by Placido Domingo and Kiri Te Kanawa, at the Royal...
Rusalka, a water spirit, lives with her family in the pure waters of the forest lake. When she falls...
Count Almaviva lives with his Countess on their estate near Seville. The Count has his eye on his wi...