An Egyptian military commander, Radamès, struggles to choose between his love for the enslaved Ethiopian princess Aida, and his loyalty to the Pharaoh. To complicate the story further, the Pharaoh's daughter Amneris is in love with Radamès, although he does not return her feelings.
Notre Dame de Paris tells the story of Quasimodo, the hunchbacked bell-ringer of the cathedral of No...
First staged at the Teatro La Fenice in 1846, Verdi’s ninth opera, Attila, returns to the stage of L...
The Glyndebourne Opera's 1981 production of the Benjamin Britten opera, based on Shakespeare's play.
When the most voluptuous, sought-after courtesan in the world meets an ascetic monk whose life is de...
Tony Award winner Bartlett Sher’s bold new production probes the psychological underpinnings of Verd...
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, 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...
The Count Di Luna believes that his younger brother was murdered years before by a vengeful gypsy bu...
The Met’s spectacular production of Verdi’s Egyptian epic captures both the grandeur and the intimac...
Richard Strauss's opera, from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
Live performance from the Opéra National de Paris, 2003.
Giancarlo Del Monaco's passionate and intelligent production of Jacques Offenbach's magnum opus crea...
“Let us assume that Switzerland is truly a paradise. The music hereto was written long ago. We have ...
Recorded at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera in 1995, this acclaimed presentation of composer Gioachi...