In its most ambitious effort yet to bring the joy and artistry of opera to audiences everywhere during the Met’s closure, the company presented an unprecedented virtual At-Home Gala, featuring more than 40 leading artists performing in a live stream from their homes all around the world.
Live performance from the Schwetzinger Festspiele, 1987. At the age of 21, Italian composer Giacchin...
Christine Goerke has wowed audiences as Turandot, the icy princess at the heart of Puccini’s grand f...
Massenet’s tale of passion, excess, and their consequences stars rising soprano Lisette Oropesa in t...
Ever since it opened the 2006–07 season, Anthony Minghella’s striking production of Madama Butterfly...
Philip Glass’ opera “Akhnaten”, premiered in Stuttgart in 1984, forms the third part of the portrait...
As the imperious title empress, mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato leads the Met premiere of Handel’s tale...
A film version of the famous Bizet opera, where a soldier (Don Jose) falls in love with a beautiful ...
Cio-Cio-San, a young Japanese geisha, seeks to fulfill her dreams through marriage to an American na...
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...
Cio-Cio-San, the young Japanese bride of American naval officer Lieutenant Pinkerton, finds her roma...
At the beginning of 1964, the music world experiences something completely unexpected. Maria Callas ...
A musician is offered a job in Vienna as stage director, but his disagreements with the aristocratic...
The life and career of Italian opera singer Farinelli, considered one of the greatest castrato singe...
Two years prior to the opening scene, the nobleman Florestan has exposed or attempted to expose cert...
It's hard to imagine confirmed Straussians not wanting this starry Metropolitan Opera performance of...
Car Men is a collaboration between the renowned choreographer Jíri Kylían and filmmaker Boris Paval ...
All the throbbing eroticism—and ultimate heartbreak—of Puccini’s youthful score is unleashed by Jame...
The World Orchestra for Peace, conducted by Sir Georg Solti, performs pieces by Rossini, Bartók, and...
Who loves whom in Così fan tutte, Mozart’s and Da Ponte’s cruelly comic reflection on desire, fideli...