Joyce DiDonato gives a sensational performance as Mary, Queen of Scots, in Donizetti’s bel canto drama, opposite Elza van den Heever as Queen Elizabeth. This Live in HD presentation of David McVicar’s acclaimed 2012 production also stars Matthew Polenzani as Leicester, the man caught between the rival queens. Maurizio Benini conducts.
Count Almaviva lives with his Countess on their estate near Seville. The Count has his eye on his wi...
This hard-edged postmodern production of Giuseppe Verdi's haunting masterpiece brings the story of S...
The life and work of stage designer ADOLPHE APPIA, originator of the most profound agitations in con...
Franco Zeffirelli directs these two legendary La Scala productions telling tragic tales of jealousy...
The life and career of Italian opera singer Farinelli, considered one of the greatest castrato singe...
A young woman, married to a wealthy man, but miserably lonely; trapped within a world ruled with an ...
Non-musical account of Puccini's opera: Tosca and Cavaradossi are in love, but the tyrant Scarpia de...
The grand scale and magnificent acoustics of the Roman arena in Verona are ideally suited to the pag...
A musician is offered a job in Vienna as stage director, but his disagreements with the aristocratic...
Car Men is a collaboration between the renowned choreographer Jíri Kylían and filmmaker Boris Paval ...
A film version of the famous Bizet opera, where a soldier (Don Jose) falls in love with a beautiful ...
Cio-Cio-San, a young Japanese geisha, seeks to fulfill her dreams through marriage to an American na...
Semyon Bychkov conducts a cast of young, up-and-coming talent including American soprano Corinne Win...
The legendary Plácido Domingo brings another new baritone role to the Met under the baton of his lon...
Rigoletto is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi. The Italian libretto was written by Francesco...
Mezzo-soprano Aigul Akhmetshina headlines a winning ensemble as the feisty heroine, Rosina, alongsid...
Siegfried is the third of the four operas that constitute Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the N...
The pain of unrequited love is portrayed unforgettably by two of today’s greatest stars. Renée Flemi...
Composer Thomas Adès conducts the Met premiere of his powerful opera based on Shakespeare’s last pla...