It is no wonder that Met audiences have gone wild over Karita Mattila’s sizzling Salome. Indisputably one of the greatest Salomes of our time, Mattila utterly incarnates Oscar Wilde’s petulant, willful, and lust-driven heroine. With Strauss’s groundbreaking music magnifying the degenerate atmosphere and building the erotic tension, this is one opera that is as shocking today as it was at its premiere in 1905.

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

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...

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 ...

Jean-Marie Villegier's modern interpretation of Handel's "Rodelinda" – filmed live at the world-reno...

Live performance from the Schwetzinger Festspiele, 1987. At the age of 21, Italian composer Giacchin...

This is a joy from beginning to end. Although there are many tricks and ideas from Laurent Pelly, as...

Recorded at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera in 1995, this acclaimed presentation of composer Gioachi...

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

David McVicar's exhilarating new production, with Anne Sofie von Otter in the title role, restores t...

The complete version of Verdi's Otello performed by Placido Domingo and Kiri Te Kanawa, at the Royal...

What begins like a fairy-tale turns into a whimsical fantasy halfway between magic farce and Masonic...

A Victor Hugo play, haunting and scandalous, provided the inspiration for Verdi’s mid-career masterp...

The award-winning show is re-imagined as a live concert event, featuring an all-star cast of recordi...

Georgian mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili gives a dynamic performance as Bizet’s iconic gypsy, the...

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

Just as a young woman is about to marry her sweetheart, she is discovered—by the entire village, to ...

The stupendous climax to Wagner’s four-part Ring cycle is brilliantly realized by the Otto Schenk/Gü...

Gaetano Donizetti and his librettist Felice Romani kept the focus of their opera ANNA BOLENA on the ...