Arabella, Op. 79, is a lyric comedy or opera in three acts by Richard Strauss to a German libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, their sixth and last operatic collaboration.
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 Cenerentola, ossia La bontà in trionfo (Cinderella, or Goodness Triumphant) is an operatic dramma...
Semyon Bychkov conducts a cast of young, up-and-coming talent including American soprano Corinne Win...
This was Domingo's last set of performances as Otello in La Scala. In spite of his relatively advanc...
The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make...
Adapted from the opera written by the composer Semen Hulak-Artemovsky.
Although Domingo was younger and Banackova looked more like the sweet and innocent young Madalena th...
Mozart’s early masterpiece returned to the Met for the first time in more than a decade with Music D...
Tchaikovsky’s setting of Pushkin’s timeless verse novel is presented on the Met stage in Deborah War...
In his new production, Robert Carsen places the action at the end of the Habsburg Empire, underscori...
While excerpts of the score are popular today, like the Hungarian March in the first part or Marguer...
A behind-the-scenes look at the of how the Paris Opera is run under the direction of Stephane Lissne...
Rigoletto is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi. The Italian libretto was written by Francesco...
A musician is offered a job in Vienna as stage director, but his disagreements with the aristocratic...
The Queen of the Night enlists a handsome prince named Tamino to rescue her beautiful kidnapped daug...
It's hard to imagine confirmed Straussians not wanting this starry Metropolitan Opera performance of...
Without question, this is an incredibly bizarre production. The revised storyline makes little sense...
La traviata (Italian: [la traˈviaːta], "The Fallen Woman"[1][2]) is an opera in three acts by Giusep...