Franco Zeffirelli's magnificient staging of Puccini's final opera - a fairy tale set in a mythical China - is one of the most popular in the Met repertory. In this Live in HD production, Maria Guleghina takes on the title role and Marcello Giordani is Calaf, the unknown prince. Marina Poplavskaya and Samuel Ramey co-star, and Andris Nelsons conducts in his Met debut.
John Adams’s mesmerizing score, in the powerful production of Penny Woolcock, tells the story of one...
Running through Bartók’s disenchanted tale, whose haunting music was initially condemned as unplayab...
Inspired by one of the twentieth century's greatest novels, composer Lorin Maazel evokes Orwell's to...
Kristine Opolais is the young woman whose conflicting desires for love and luxury lead to her tragic...
During World War I, in an unnamed country, a soldier named Tamino is sent by the Queen of the Night ...
The Marx Brothers take on high society and the opera world to bring two lovers together. A sly busin...
The stupendous climax to Wagner’s four-part Ring cycle is brilliantly realized by the Otto Schenk/Gü...
On a June night in 2017, opera lovers thronged to the Royal Opera House in London to hear tenor Jona...
Mirella Freni, Placido Domingo, Christa Ludwig, and Robert Kerns star in this Jean-Pierre Ponnelle-d...
CARMEN is the classic tale of forbidden passion between a young man and a spoken-for woman, Carmen. ...
With his affinity for the 16th-century sculptor Benvenuto Cellini's advocacy of artistic and persona...
In October 1733, the audience at the Académie Royale de Musique witnessed the birth of a revolutiona...
Dr. Hohner, theatre physician at the Vienna Royal Theatre, murders his mistress, the star soprano wh...
At the beginning of 1964, the music world experiences something completely unexpected. Maria Callas ...
The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make...
The gorgeous and evocative Otto Schenk/Günther Schneider-Siemssen production continues with this sec...
Siegfried is the third of the four operas that constitute Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the N...
The life and career of Italian opera singer Farinelli, considered one of the greatest castrato singe...
Renée Fleming sings one of her signature roles, the title character in Dvořák’s sumptuously melodic ...