Acclaimed artist William Kentridge directed and designed this visually dazzling Met premiere production of Shostakovich’s satirical opera, adapted from the classic short story by Nikolai Gogol. Baritone Paulo Szot leads the cast as Kovalyov, the hapless bureaucrat whose nose has mysteriously gone missing. Alexander Lewis and Andrey Popov co-star, and Pavel Smelkov conducts.

After the acclaimed Met premiere of Thomas Adès's "The Tempest" in 2012, the composer returned with ...

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...

All the throbbing eroticism—and ultimate heartbreak—of Puccini’s youthful score is unleashed by Jame...

This telecast offers a rare opportunity to see the legendary Joan Sutherland in the role that first ...

"La Bohème" is one of Giacomo Puccini's most popular and timeless works and the second-most performe...

As renowned for its harmonious overture as for its romantic storybook characters, this three-act mas...

Just as a young woman is about to marry her sweetheart, she is discovered—by the entire village, to ...

Tenor Javier Camarena and soprano Pretty Yende team up for a feast of bel canto vocal fireworks—incl...

Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads the classic John Dexter production of Poulenc’s devastating story of fait...

A stellar cast brings Puccini’s spellbinding opera to life, seizing every opportunity to thrill the ...

James Levine leads a remarkable cast in one of Verdi’s most enduringly popular operas and brings fre...

Wagner’s Romantic opera demands singing actors who can truly inhabit their parts, and that’s just wh...

Met performances of Strauss’s white-hot one-act tragedy, which receives its first new production at ...

In its most ambitious effort yet to bring the joy and artistry of opera to audiences everywhere duri...

Star tenor Jonas Kaufmann brings aching intensity and vocal charisma to the tortured title hero of M...

Berlioz’s epic masterpiece retells the magnificent saga of the aftermath of the Trojan War and the e...

"Irresistible" (Opera News) rising-star mezzo Elina Garanca triumphs as Rossini's Cinderella in this...

The world’s most famous love story comes to operatic life with superstars Anna Netrebko and Roberto ...

It is no wonder that Met audiences have gone wild over Karita Mattila’s sizzling Salome. Indisputabl...