Amour, the messenger of the gods, tells Orpheus that he may descend to the underworld and return with Eurydice. His singing has the power to appease the Furies and animate the blessed Shadows. Yet, his voice cannot reassure Eurydice who despairs of the feigned indifference of Orpheus, put to the test by Jupiter. Raphaël Pichon conducts the opera of operas and Aurélien Bory displays the giddiness of the mental and supernatural spaces traveled by Orpheus and beyond. Marianne Crebassa plays a new breeches role with Hélène Guilmette (Hélène in Le Timbre d’argent) and Lea Desandre (the title role in Alcione).
“Let us assume that Switzerland is truly a paradise. The music hereto was written long ago. We have ...

A Victor Hugo play, haunting and scandalous, provided the inspiration for Verdi’s mid-career masterp...
Politics and love leads to a love triangle between father, son and stepmother.

In the 50's, in Paris, the neighbors Rodolfo and Mimi meet each other when Mimi's candle blows out i...

Nabucco - live from Metropolitan Opera, June 2002. On its surface, Nabucco is about the epic strugg...

Starring the exquisite coloratura soprano Emma Matthews as the innocent girl priestess Lakmé, and su...

Berlioz’s colossal masterpiece requires stupendous forces—dozens of soloists, enormous chorus, orche...
Every woman wants him, every man wants to be him: Mozart’s version of the irresistible rogue who bri...

NORMA tells the tragic story of a supposedly chaste druidic priestess, who is driven to murderous je...

Franz Woyzeck, a lowly soldier stationed in a mid-nineteenth century provincial German town, is the ...

This epic opera follows Virgil, beginning as the Greeks appear to have ceded the field after ten yea...

TANNHÄUSER UND DER SÄNGERKRIEG AUF WARTBURG is a grand opera by Richard Wagner in three acts. After ...

Werther loves Charlotte, but she promised her mother on her deathbed that she would marry Albert. Af...

Richard Eyre’s elegant production, which opened the Met’s 2014–15 season, sets the action of Mozart’...

The legendary director Ruth Berghaus created this staging of Carl Maria von Weber’s Der Freischütz a...

A sudden gunshot shatters the dream of two lovers on their wedding day. The fate of Orpheus and Eury...

In the Summer of 2009, the British director Nigel Lowery and the Iranian choreographer Amir Hosseinp...

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

Mozart's genius in setting to music da Ponte's comic play of love, infidelity and forgiveness marks ...

Last production staged by Patrice Chéreau, this Elektra will remain as the main and most striking ly...