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.

Richard Strauss's opera, from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

Don Giovanni's list of romantic conquests reaches into the hundreds. But his reputation as a lothari...

Clara is given an enchanted Nutcracker doll on Christmas Eve. As midnight strikes, she creeps downst...

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...

Jean-Marie Villegier's modern interpretation of Handel's "Rodelinda" – filmed live at the world-reno...

The complete version of Verdi's Otello performed by Placido Domingo and Kiri Te Kanawa, at the Royal...

Finding the right librettos was not easy, but one month after the end of the First World War, his tr...

A godforsaken village in Germany shortly after the Thirty Years’ War: The young scrivener Max loves ...

This is a joy from beginning to end. Although there are many tricks and ideas from Laurent Pelly, as...

Die Walküre (The Valkyrie), WWV 86B, is an opera in three acts by Richard Wagner with a German libre...

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

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

In a small Japanese town, Ko-Ko is appointed to the unenviable position of executioner. Knowing he m...

Live 2001 production from the Zurich Opera House of the classic Mozart/Da Ponte opera, with Nikolaus...

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

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

Sasha Regan’s award-winning All-male Company are set to lift everyone’s spirits with a treat in thei...