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.
Royal Opera favourite Bryn Terfel heads the cast for this new production of Donizetti’s comedy of do...
The film follows the staging of the opera Olimpiade while at the same time exploring the dramatic li...
This DVD of a live 2005 performance from the Zürich Opera under the musical direction of Franz Welse...
The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make...
It's an event that draws many thousands of music lovers to one of the most beautiful cities in the w...
Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...
Live performance from Schwetzinger Festspiele, 1992. Based on Voltaire's tragedy, TANCREDI is a sto...
Richard Eyre’s elegant production, which opened the Met’s 2014–15 season, sets the action of Mozart’...
In 1935, renowned Portuguese neurologist Egas Moniz visits psychiatrist Sobral Cid, trying to convin...
The legendary director Ruth Berghaus created this staging of Carl Maria von Weber’s Der Freischütz a...
Carlos Álvarez takes the title role in the first of Verdi's Shakespearean operas, with Maria Guleghi...
The sets and costumes by Ponnelle are truly reflective of the 'grand style'. Plus the fact that the ...
In ancient Babylon, SEMIRAMIDE (Anderson) encourages her lover Assur (Ramey) to murder her husband, ...
The Zurich Opera gathered a superb cast for this production: Italian soprano Eva Mei sings the Count...
Shortly after WWII, the DEFA Studios produced a series of operas and operettas which belonged to the...
After the acclaimed Met premiere of Thomas Adès's "The Tempest" in 2012, the composer returned with ...
Sir David McVicar’s bold new staging of Tosca, Puccini’s operatic thriller of Napoleonic Rome, thril...
A rarely performed bel canto gem, Rossini’s Semiramide returned to the Met for the first time in nea...
Premiered immediately before the enduring masterpieces Rigoletto, Il Trovatore, and La Traviata, Lui...