The painter Mario Cavaradossi helps a fugitive escape – and so attracts the attention of Scarpia, the sadistic Chief of Police. Scarpia captures Cavaradossi and has him tortured within earshot of his lover, the singer Tosca. Scarpia sentences Cavaradossi to death – but promises Tosca that her lover can be saved if she gives herself to Scarpia. Tosca consents but as soon as the order has been given kills Scarpia. Scarpia’s menace continues even in death: betrayed by a double-cross, Cavaradossi dies and Tosca leaps to her death.

Simon Keenlyside smolders dangerously in the title role of Mozart’s version of the legend of Don Jua...

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...

The Queen of the Night enlists a handsome prince named Tamino to rescue her beautiful kidnapped daug...
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Magic Flute is undoubtedly one of the most multi-layered, profound, compli...

Non-musical account of Puccini's opera: Tosca and Cavaradossi are in love, but the tyrant Scarpia de...

Mozart’s early masterpiece returned to the Met for the first time in more than a decade with Music D...

Tchaikovsky’s setting of Pushkin’s timeless verse novel is presented on the Met stage in Deborah War...

In his new production, Robert Carsen places the action at the end of the Habsburg Empire, underscori...

a film opera; music by: Gaetano Donizetti (Philharmonic Orchestra of Rome) Directed by Giuseppe Zedd...

This DVD of a live 2005 performance from the Zürich Opera under the musical direction of Franz Welse...

The water fairy Rusalka falls in love with an earthly prince. In vain, Father Aquarius warns her. He...

A version of Benjamin Britten's opera based on the Melville story. Will the virtuous young sailor Bi...

Based on a revolutionary play supposedly written by the Eternal President of the Democratic People's...

The operatic version of the famous story about a governess who fears her two charges are possessed.

The man looks back on a turbulent love life, which he does not dare to opt definitively for a perman...

Glyndebourne's pulsating new production of the Waltz King's much-loved comic operetta. Its story c...

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