Based on the Béla Bartók opera, Duke Bluebeard reluctantly and gradually uncovers the secrets of his psyche to his fourth wife, Judit, opening the seven doors of his castle to ultimately reveal his still living previous wives, among whom Judit must take her place.
Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...
The life and career of Italian opera singer Farinelli, considered one of the greatest castrato singe...
A musician is offered a job in Vienna as stage director, but his disagreements with the aristocratic...
Who loves whom in Così fan tutte, Mozart’s and Da Ponte’s cruelly comic reflection on desire, fideli...
Rigoletto is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi. The Italian libretto was written by Francesco...
All the throbbing eroticism—and ultimate heartbreak—of Puccini’s youthful score is unleashed by Jame...
Diana Damrau and Vittorio Grigolo are opera’s classic lovers in Gounod’s lush Shakespeare adaptation...
The legendary Plácido Domingo brings another new baritone role to the Met under the baton of his lon...
La Cenerentola, ossia La bontà in trionfo (Cinderella, or Goodness Triumphant) is an operatic dramma...
After the acclaimed Met premiere of Thomas Adès's "The Tempest" in 2012, the composer returned with ...
Sir David McVicar’s bold new staging of Tosca, Puccini’s operatic thriller of Napoleonic Rome, thril...
An excellent performance of this delightful opera. The principals are superb, especially the sisters...
37-year-old Italian-American widow Loretta Castorini believes she is unlucky in love, and so accepts...
Prince Abesalom runs into an orphaned Eteri while hunting, falls for her and brings the woman to his...
Mozart’s early masterpiece returned to the Met for the first time in more than a decade with Music D...
In his new production, Robert Carsen places the action at the end of the Habsburg Empire, underscori...
The first words uttered by Carmen mark one of the greatest entrances in the history of opera and exp...
The operatic version of the famous story about a governess who fears her two charges are possessed.
Pagliacci, is a 1948 Italian film based on Ruggero Leoncavallo's opera Pagliacci, directed by Mario ...