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.

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

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 ...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

Anna Netrebko as the beautiful and wealthy Adina leads the cast in Barlett Sher’s production of Doni...

Jessye Norman is a regal Ariadne, the mythological Greek heroine in this opera-within-an-opera, oppo...