When the most voluptuous, sought-after courtesan in the world meets an ascetic monk whose life is devoted to God, you know erotic sparks are going to fly. And when the clash takes place in a glorious, but rarely performed, opera by Massenet, it’s a delight to the ear just as much as to the eye. Renée Fleming is every inch the glamorous Thaïs, swathed in elegant gowns designed by Christian Lacroix. Thomas Hampson is Athanaël, the tortured man of God. This production by John Cox, which premiered in December 2008, brilliantly sets the stage for a confrontation as old as civilization itself.
This filmed version of Strauss' shocker features Teresa Stratas as opera's most depraved teenager, a...
A lonely mother and her son go to the opera where a performance of Cherubini’s opera Medea is given....
Recorded at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera in 1995, this acclaimed presentation of composer Gioachi...
Bill Morrison’s experimental short features decayed film reels from the lost, German silent film Paw...
"La Bohème" is one of Giacomo Puccini's most popular and timeless works and the second-most performe...
Dvořák's "Rusalka" in a production by David Pountney at the English National Opera in 1986. Mark Eld...
Based on a revolutionary play supposedly written by the Eternal President of the Democratic People's...
The operatic version of the famous story about a governess who fears her two charges are possessed.
After Tristan und Isolde (2016), Parsifal (2017) and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (2018) this is t...
When Sir John Falstaff decides that he wants to have a little fun he writes two letters to a pair of...
The hero Siegfried reforges his father’s shattered sword, embarking on a quest for the greatest priz...
Deep in a forest where druids and warriors seek revenge against the conquering Romans, Norma is scor...
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...
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...
David McVicar's exhilarating new production, with Anne Sofie von Otter in the title role, restores t...
Experience the story of seamstress Esther who begins writing to a mysterious suitor laboring on the ...