Robert Lepage’s dreamlike production, with its thousands of twinkling LED lights stretching across the stage to represent the sea, encapsulates the mystic feeling of L’Amour de Loin, Saariaho’s haunting opera of distant love. Eric Owens is Jaufré Rudel, a troubadour in 12th century France who has become tired of his hedonistic life and longs for an idealized love. Enter the Pilgrim (Tamara Mumford) who tells him his perfect love does, in fact, exist, far across the sea. She is Clémence, Countess of Tripoli (Susanna Phillips). The magic of the characters’ inner lives as they explore the meaning of love, longing, life, and death is heightened by Saariaho’s hypnotic and bewitching score, conducted by Susanna Mälkki.
Live 2001 production from the Zurich Opera House of the classic Mozart/Da Ponte opera, with Nikolaus...
American composer Jake Heggie’s compelling masterpiece, the most widely performed new opera of the l...
Anthony Davis’s groundbreaking and influential opera, which premiered in 1986, arrives at the Met at...
The success of Verdi’s third opera, a stirring drama about the fall of ancient Jerusalem at the hand...
Director Carrie Cracknell makes her Met debut, reinvigorating the classic story with a staging that ...
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Two singers at the height of their powers—radiant soprano Nadine Sierra and tenor sensation Benjamin...
Live performance from the Opéra National de Paris, 2003.
Richard Strauss's opera, from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
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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...
"La Bohème" is one of Giacomo Puccini's most popular and timeless works and the second-most performe...
Recorded at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera in 1995, this acclaimed presentation of composer Gioachi...
The Glyndebourne Opera's 1981 production of the Benjamin Britten opera, based on Shakespeare's play.
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John Adams’s mesmerizing score, in the powerful production of Penny Woolcock, tells the story of one...
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