Anna Netrebko as the beautiful and wealthy Adina leads the cast in Barlett Sher’s production of Donizetti’s charming comedy, first seen on Opening Night of the Met’s 2012–13 season. Matthew Polenzani is Nemorino, the poor but good-hearted country boy who wins her love—with the help of the magic “elixir” sold by the quack Dulcamara, played by Ambrogio Maestri. Mariusz Kwiecien is the swaggering Sergeant Belcore and Maurizio Benini conducts.
Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...
Composer Thomas Adès conducts the Met premiere of his powerful opera based on Shakespeare’s last pla...
This all-star cast is framed by Peter Hall’s gritty, realistic production and conducted by James Lev...
The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make...
Christine Goerke has wowed audiences as Turandot, the icy princess at the heart of Puccini’s grand f...
Ever since it opened the 2006–07 season, Anthony Minghella’s striking production of Madama Butterfly...
Philip Glass’ opera “Akhnaten”, premiered in Stuttgart in 1984, forms the third part of the portrait...
La traviata (Italian: [la traˈviaːta], "The Fallen Woman"[1][2]) is an opera in three acts by Giusep...
Who loves whom in Così fan tutte, Mozart’s and Da Ponte’s cruelly comic reflection on desire, fideli...
The film follows the staging of the opera Olimpiade while at the same time exploring the dramatic li...
A collaboration between award-winning American filmmaker Sofia Coppola and Italia haute couture king...
37-year-old Italian-American widow Loretta Castorini believes she is unlucky in love, and so accepts...
The gorgeous and evocative Otto Schenk/Günther Schneider-Siemssen production continues with this sec...
Originally set in the 15th c century, Tchaikovsky's "The Enchantress" is updated to the present day ...
Between two Thanksgivings, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondri...
Star soprano Anna Netrebko created a sensation in her first Met performances as the malevolent Lady ...
During World War II, two French civilians and a downed British Bomber Crew set out from Paris to cro...
The life and career of Italian opera singer Farinelli, considered one of the greatest castrato singe...
Franco Zeffirelli's magnificient staging of Puccini's final opera - a fairy tale set in a mythical C...