Deep in a forest where druids and warriors seek revenge against the conquering Romans, Norma is scorned by the Roman proconsul Pollione, with whom she has two children. Her kindness turns to fury when she discovers that Pollione has taken Adalgisa, a novice priestess, as his new lover. When Pollione loses his high rank in the army and is offered as a sacrifice, Norma promises him freedom under one condition.

Star soprano Anna Netrebko adds Donizetti’s hapless heroine to her growing list of Met triumphs in t...

A man with a broken back dies after his wife has an affair with his brother.

Madcap physical comedy and impeccable coloratura come together for Natalie Dessay’s indelible portra...

Donizetti’s timeless comedy shines in Otto Schenk’s enchanting production, conducted by James Levine...
IL CAMPANELLO DI NOTTE, Farce in one act by Gaetano Donizetti, is set in Naples. Don Annibale Pistac...

The gypsy Azucena (Fiorenza Cossotto) takes revenge for her mother who was accused of putting a curs...

The Marx Brothers take on high society and the opera world to bring two lovers together. A sly busin...

The Ballet de l'Opera National de Paris mounted this production of the late Pina Bausch's dance-oper...

I due Foscari was Verdi's sixth opera and based on Lord Byron's play The Two Foscari. Rich in intrig...

Olga Neuwirth, for a long time one of the great composers of the present, succeeds with this opera i...

Two men meet and confront each other over a woman. Visibly different in appearance, the two men enga...

Giacomo Puccini's immortal opera, in a high budget feature-film version directed by Academy Award no...
Spy mystery of British sisters Ida and Louise Cook, who helped Jewish refugees flee the Nazis.

Matthew Eberhardt brings 1950s suburbia to life in Leonard Bernstein’s colourful criticism of Americ...

U-CARMEN is a feature film based on Georges Bizet's 19th-century opera that was filmed on location i...

American composer Jake Heggie’s compelling masterpiece, the most widely performed new opera of the l...

Inspired by the magical realism of Gabriel García Márquez, Mexican composer Daniel Catán’s 1996 oper...

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 ...