An adaptation of Leos Janacek's opera Prihody Lisky Bystrousky (1925), based on the novel Liska Bystrouska by Rudolf Tesnohlidek. It follows the life of Sharp-Ears, a fox who is captured by a forester as a cub and raised in his home prior to escaping back into the forest.
“Let us assume that Switzerland is truly a paradise. The music hereto was written long ago. We have ...

A Victor Hugo play, haunting and scandalous, provided the inspiration for Verdi’s mid-career masterp...
Politics and love leads to a love triangle between father, son and stepmother.

In the 50's, in Paris, the neighbors Rodolfo and Mimi meet each other when Mimi's candle blows out i...

Nabucco - live from Metropolitan Opera, June 2002. On its surface, Nabucco is about the epic strugg...

Starring the exquisite coloratura soprano Emma Matthews as the innocent girl priestess Lakmé, and su...

Berlioz’s colossal masterpiece requires stupendous forces—dozens of soloists, enormous chorus, orche...

The retired soldier, interested in hunting, lives alone after his daughter leaves home and the deat...
Every woman wants him, every man wants to be him: Mozart’s version of the irresistible rogue who bri...

NORMA tells the tragic story of a supposedly chaste druidic priestess, who is driven to murderous je...

Franz Woyzeck, a lowly soldier stationed in a mid-nineteenth century provincial German town, is the ...

This epic opera follows Virgil, beginning as the Greeks appear to have ceded the field after ten yea...

TANNHÄUSER UND DER SÄNGERKRIEG AUF WARTBURG is a grand opera by Richard Wagner in three acts. After ...

Werther loves Charlotte, but she promised her mother on her deathbed that she would marry Albert. Af...

Two dogs, Rowf and Snitter, struggle to survive in the countryside after escaping from an animal res...

Richard Eyre’s elegant production, which opened the Met’s 2014–15 season, sets the action of Mozart’...

The legendary director Ruth Berghaus created this staging of Carl Maria von Weber’s Der Freischütz a...

A sudden gunshot shatters the dream of two lovers on their wedding day. The fate of Orpheus and Eury...

In the Summer of 2009, the British director Nigel Lowery and the Iranian choreographer Amir Hosseinp...

A grandfather and his grandson go to a fair to sell a horse. A ranger and his vicious partner, Matij...