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.
Paying a rare visit to her estate, a countess clashes with the man she hired to manage it.
Opera in three acts by Christoph Willibald Gluck, Hector Berlioz's version (1859)
Imbuing the familiar Don Juan myth with a captivating combination of comedy, seductiveness, danger, ...
Live from Glyndebourne Festival 1995. Yakov Kreizberg conducting the Orchestra of the Age of Enlight...
Live performance at Théâtre de l’Archevêché du Festival d’art lyrique d’Aix-en-Provence 2002. Daniel...
Verdi's most famous opera is performed at the Arena of Verona in Italy. Egypt and Ethiopia are at wa...
David McVicar's atmospheric and brooding production captures the drama of this riveting piece of Bri...
This was one of the most emotional evenings in Met history—the night Leontyne Price bid farewell to ...
La Cenerentola is Gioachino Rossini's version of the popular Cinderella story, an exciting mixture o...
A timeless tale told in a florid bel canto style, Rossini’s take on the Cinderella story offers an i...
The Metropolitan Opera performance of L'Elisir d'Amore is conducted by Nicola Rescigno and features ...
tt0253843. Il Trovatore (1985) Verona. Verdi / Italian. Reynald Giovaninetti conducts the Orchestra...
This recording of "Il Trovatore" was held in Parma in 2010. The production is minimalistic. The scen...
Daniel Barenboim conducts the Staatskapelle Berlin in this production of Verdi's opera starring Anna...
Don Carlo (1980) Metropolitan Opera. Verdi / italian. King Philip's court is plagued by rebels, fami...
Family jealousy, threat of rebellion, political back-stabbing and the Inquisition weigh heavy on the...
C Majors Tutto Verdi project comes to one of Verdis most popular operas: Don Carlo. Based on Schille...
Verdi wrote this five act opera with a French Libretto for the Paris opera. Premiere 1867. Then ther...