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.

All the throbbing eroticism—and ultimate heartbreak—of Puccini’s youthful score is unleashed by Jame...

Stage director Emilio Sagi's production of the legendary Barber of Seville is enriched by a bright d...

"La Bohème" is one of Giacomo Puccini's most popular and timeless works and the second-most performe...

A return to its roots for Castor et Pollux, Jean-Philippe Rameau’s lyric tragedy first performed in ...

Jean-Marie Villegier's modern interpretation of Handel's "Rodelinda" – filmed live at the world-reno...
A colorful and comedic staging of the classic opera buffa by the Vienna State Opera.

After the acclaimed Met premiere of Thomas Adès's "The Tempest" in 2012, the composer returned with ...

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...

This telecast offers a rare opportunity to see the legendary Joan Sutherland in the role that first ...

Recorded at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera in 1995, this acclaimed presentation of composer Gioachi...

David McVicar's exhilarating new production, with Anne Sofie von Otter in the title role, restores t...

Sasha Regan’s award-winning All-male Company are set to lift everyone’s spirits with a treat in thei...
The writer Dario Fo applies his inventive genius to Rossini's comic opera in its premiere DVD releas...

Opera royalty Luciano Pavarotti brings dignity and power to the title role in this 1982 production. ...

What begins like a fairy-tale turns into a whimsical fantasy halfway between magic farce and Masonic...

Just as a young woman is about to marry her sweetheart, she is discovered—by the entire village, to ...

The stupendous climax to Wagner’s four-part Ring cycle is brilliantly realized by the Otto Schenk/Gü...

Live performance from Zürich Opera House, 2001. “Vesselina Kasarova’s Rosina turned this Barber int...