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.

Robert Lepage’s dreamlike production, with its thousands of twinkling LED lights stretching across t...

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...

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 ...

A new generation of rising stars shines in Franco Zeffirelli’s classic production of Puccini’s most ...

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

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

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...

"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...

Star soprano Anna Netrebko scored a triumph in Laurent Pelly’s acclaimed 2012 production, singing th...

Imbuing the familiar Don Juan myth with a captivating combination of comedy, seductiveness, danger, ...

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...

With its cast of hundreds, thrilling score, and sweeping tale of love and heroics in ancient Egypt, ...