Live performance from the Schwetzinger Festspiele, 1987. At the age of 21, Italian composer Giacchin...
Massenet’s tale of passion, excess, and their consequences stars rising soprano Lisette Oropesa in t...
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...
The film is a parody of Disney's Fantasia, though possibly more of a challenge to Fantasia than paro...
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...
Antony Tudor's 1942 ballet "Pillar of Fire" in a 1973 performance with American Ballet Theater.
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...
The Nutcracker is Mikhail Baryshnikov's breathtaking and critcally acclaimed Emmy nominated producti...
It's hard to imagine confirmed Straussians not wanting this starry Metropolitan Opera performance of...