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.
What happened to Figaro and his friends after the events told in Rossini’s and Mozart’s operas? One ...
Leonora plans to elope with Don Alvaro, but he accidentally shoots and kills her father, who curses ...
Just as a young woman is about to marry her sweetheart, she is discovered—by the entire village, to ...
Robert Lepage’s dreamlike production, with its thousands of twinkling LED lights stretching across t...
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 ...
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...
Mozart’s early masterpiece returned to the Met for the first time in more than a decade with Music D...
In his new production, Robert Carsen places the action at the end of the Habsburg Empire, underscori...
After the acclaimed Met premiere of Thomas Adès's "The Tempest" in 2012, the composer returned with ...
Sir David McVicar’s bold new staging of Tosca, Puccini’s operatic thriller of Napoleonic Rome, thril...
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...
A new generation of rising stars shines in Franco Zeffirelli’s classic production of Puccini’s most ...
After over a century out of the Met’s repertoire, audiences were thrilled to discover just what a se...
Berlioz’s epic masterpiece retells the magnificent saga of the aftermath of the Trojan War and the e...
Star soprano Anna Netrebko scored a triumph in Laurent Pelly’s acclaimed 2012 production, singing th...