This telecast offers a rare opportunity to see the legendary Joan Sutherland in the role that first catapulted her to international stardom. She drove audiences wild by the way her opulent voice caressed the music’s long phrases and sprinted effortlessly through the fiendish runs, trills, embellishments and stratospheric high notes. One of the glories of the operatic world, her portrayal of Donizetti’s hapless heroine is a multifaceted and moving characterization. The incomparable tenor Alfredo Kraus is Edgardo, the man Lucia loves but cannot have. (Performance taped November 13, 1982. Broadcasted September 28, 1983.)

Starring Jonas Kaufmann as Bacchus and featuring Emily Magee with Daniel Harding conducting the Vien...

Two mystical beings emerge from the scenery, embarking on a journey through Gallup— Na'nízhoozhí in ...

An operatic film adaptation of the poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar of the same name.

Johann Strauss, Jr., a would-be composer of waltzes in mid-19th Century Vienna, attempts to thwart h...

Gustav Von Aschenbach, a passionate composer, arrives in Venice as a result of wanderlust and there ...

Jules Massanet's lyrical opera is transformed into a superb film production by Petr Weigl, shot on l...

Frantisek Filip film version of the Smetana opera.

This tragic story revolves around the licentious Duke of Mantua, his hunch-backed court jester Rigol...

Part folklore, part opera-ballet, this féerie presents local pagan traditions on the day of the summ...

What happened to Figaro and his friends after the events told in Rossini’s and Mozart’s operas? One ...

For the first time in company history, the Met presents the original five-act French version of Verd...

On May 21, soprano Nadine Sierra takes on one of the repertory’s most formidable and storied roles, ...

Leonora plans to elope with Don Alvaro, but he accidentally shoots and kills her father, who curses ...

The Royal Ballet performs Tchaikovsky's classic ballet, choreographed by Liam Scarlett and starring ...

The painter Lili Elbe was the first person to have gender confirmation surgery in the 1930s. The hom...

Set in 16th-century France and Spain, Don Carlos tells of the political and amorous rivalry between ...

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.