John Adams’s mesmerizing score, in the powerful production of Penny Woolcock, tells the story of one of the pivotal moments in human history—the creation of the atomic bomb. Conducted by Alan Gilbert in his Met debut, this gripping opera presents the human face of the scientists, military men, and others who were involved in the project, as they wrestled with the implications of their work. Baritone Gerald Finley gives a powerful star turn in the title role as the brilliant J. Robert Oppenheimer.

Julia Bullock, Joyce DiDonato and Jakub Jozef Orlinski star in Katie Mitchell’s thrilling new produc...

With an illustrious career spanning five decades: over 150 stage roles, 11 Grammy Awards and his ico...

Wagner’s mystic masterpiece Parsifal at the Staatsoper Berlin, staged by Dmitri Tcherniakov and cond...

Lucia di Lammermoor, dramma tragico in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti (1797 - 1848). Libretto by Sa...

"Yenufa" is an outstanding phenomenon in the music of the 20th century. Drawing on Moravian folklore...

At the beginning of 1964, the music world experiences something completely unexpected. Maria Callas ...

Semyon Bychkov conducts a cast of young, up-and-coming talent including American soprano Corinne Win...

Diana Damrau and Vittorio Grigolo are opera’s classic lovers in Gounod’s lush Shakespeare adaptation...

The legendary Plácido Domingo brings another new baritone role to the Met under the baton of his lon...

Gaul has been conquered by the Romans. Oroveso, the Arch-Druid longs to lead a Gallic rebellion agai...

Benjamin Britten’s opera of the Henry James novel. An inexperienced governess is sent to a country h...

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....

"Giovanna d'Arco; ossia, la pulzella d'Orléans" is an operatic dramma lirico with a prologue and thr...

Arabella, Op. 79, is a lyric comedy or opera in three acts by Richard Strauss to a German libretto b...

The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House presents a new production of Poulenc's short opera La Voix Hu...

The incomparable Luciano Pavarotti at his most eloquent brings Donizetti’s Nemorino to live as only ...

The man looks back on a turbulent love life, which he does not dare to opt definitively for a perman...