At a glittering party in 18th-century Paris, the poet Andréa Chenier delivers an impassioned denunciation of Louis XVI. Five years later, the Revolution has given way to the Terror, transforming the power balance between Chénier, his beloved Maddalena, and Gérard, the man who could destroy him...
Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...
A celebration of love and creative inspiration takes place in the infamous, gaudy and glamorous Pari...
When the most voluptuous, sought-after courtesan in the world meets an ascetic monk whose life is de...
The gorgeous and evocative Otto Schenk/Günther Schneider-Siemssen production continues with this sec...
Siegfried is the third of the four operas that constitute Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the N...
Live performance from the Metropolitan Opera, March 1, 2014. Absent from the Met stage since 1917, ...
Met Music director James Levine conducts a cast of youthful stars in Mozart’s sophisticated comedy a...
Live performance from the Metropolitan Opera, 27 February, 1996.
Live performance from the Metropolitan Opera, 31 December 1986.
This John Dexter production, designed by Desmond Heeley, was a parting gift to the great American so...
Music Director James Levine conducts his first new Met production after a two-year absence: Robert C...
David McVicar’s inventive hit production of Handel’s most popular opera sets the story of Caesar’s c...
This special event celebrates the 25th anniversary of the Broadway production. Ragtime weaves an ele...
An Egyptian military commander, Radamès, struggles to choose between his love for the enslaved Ethio...
The Met’s spectacular production of Verdi’s Egyptian epic captures both the grandeur and the intimac...
This 2003 performance of Georges Bizet's 19th century opera Carmen was produced and directed by film...
A shy Greenwich Village book clerk is discovered by a fashion photographer and whisked off to Paris ...
The Glyndebourne Opera's 1981 production of the Benjamin Britten opera, based on Shakespeare's play.