Kristine Opolais is the young woman whose conflicting desires for love and luxury lead to her tragic end, and Roberto Alagna plays the man who falls for her in Puccini’s early hit. Richard Eyre’s elegant production, which sets the action in 1940s occupied France, was one of the highlights of the Met’s 2015–16 season. Massimo Cavalletti as Manon’s brother and Brindley Sherratt as her aging admirer co-star, and Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi is on the podium.
Henry Purcell's opera Dido & Aeneas, completed in 1689, was the subject of a memorable and breathtak...
Requiring 38 soloists, chorus, and large orchestra, Hans Pfitzner's "Palestrina" is a challenging op...
Akhnaten is set in Ancient Egypt, and based on the accession to the throne of the pharaoh Amenhotep ...
The beautiful but icy Princess Turandot will only marry a man who can correctly answer three riddles...
Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...
“Kaufmann is performing the title role for the first time, and it’s hard to imagine him bettered. Hi...
Adaptation of John Gay's 18th century opera, featuring Laurence Olivier as MacHeath and Hugh Griffit...
Richard Eyre’s stunning new production of Bizet’s opera was the talk of the town when it was unveile...
Clay animation film by Guionne Leroy, based on the music of Henry Purcell's opera "King Arthur"
Robert Lepage’s remarkable Met Opera production of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen, the 2013 Grammy...
Ring Cycle, pt 4. Siegfried is drugged and tricked into kidnapping his wife, since she has the Ring ...
The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make...
The opera: Nina, o sia La Pazza Per Amore itself, is an extra-ordinary sad and touching story, and s...
From the Styriarte Festival in Graz Austria, the acclaimed mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli and Maestro...
Non-musical account of Puccini's opera: Tosca and Cavaradossi are in love, but the tyrant Scarpia de...
Rigoletto is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi. The Italian libretto was written by Francesco...
Renée Fleming sings one of her signature roles, the title character in Dvořák’s sumptuously melodic ...
Radiant mezzo-soprano Susan Graham and dashing Italian tenor Marcello Giordani are unlucky lovers in...
Valery Gergiev conducts Mariusz Trelinski’s thrilling new production of these rarely heard one-act o...