This deliciously dark take on the beloved Brothers Grimm fairy tale, appealing to audiences of all ages, was part of the Met’s popular English-language holiday series. Alice Coote and Christine Schäfer star as the famous siblings lost in the woods, who battle the ravenous Witch—a zany portrayal by tenor Philip Langridge—while the Met orchestra, under the baton of Vladimir Jurowski, glories in the rich, folk-inspired score.

Maria Callas, the world's greatest opera singer, lives the last days of her life in 1970s Paris, as ...

Deep in a forest where druids and warriors seek revenge against the conquering Romans, Norma is scor...

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

A small suburban town receives a visit from a castaway unfinished science experiment named Edward.

Who loves whom in Così fan tutte, Mozart’s and Da Ponte’s cruelly comic reflection on desire, fideli...

It ain't easy bein' green -- especially if you're a likable (albeit smelly) ogre named Shrek. On a m...

Shrek, Fiona, and Donkey set off to Far, Far Away to meet Fiona's mother and father, the Queen and K...

Richard Wagner's Parsifal, staged at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo in 2020, opened the opera season ...

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...

Part of an epoch-making release of Mozart's complete operas on DVD, here is the 18-year old composer...

The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make...

One day, Happiness and Sorrow come to town. Happiness leaves her magical cloak in the local inn, say...

In an idyllic Italian village, a young American girl on the threshold of adolescence is swept into a...

The youngest of the miller's three sons sits sadly in front of his cabin while his brothers inherit ...

Wicket the Ewok and his friends agree to help two shipwrecked human children, Mace and Cindel, on a ...

The grand scale and magnificent acoustics of the Roman arena in Verona are ideally suited to the pag...

Siblings Lucy, Edmund, Susan and Peter step through a magical wardrobe and find the land of Narnia. ...

Stage director Emilio Sagi's production of the legendary Barber of Seville is enriched by a bright d...

La Cenerentola, ossia La bontà in trionfo (Cinderella, or Goodness Triumphant) is an operatic dramma...