AIDA, an Ethiopian princess, is captured and brought into slavery in Egypt. A military commander, Radamès, struggles to choose between his love for her and his loyalty to the Pharaoh. To complicate the story further, Radamès is loved by the Pharaoh's daughter Amneris, although he does not return her feelings. Sonja Frisell’s production captures all the grandeur and excitement of Verdi’s monumental opera, particularly the great triumphal scene where the Egyptian army, led by Radamès (Plácido Domingo), returns victorious from war. Aprile Millo is Aida, the slave girl whose love for Radamès has her squaring off with Amneris (Dolora Zajick), the Egyptian princess who also loves him. Sherrill Milnes is Amonasro, and James Levine leads The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Chorus, and Ballet.
101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A y...
It's a dreary Christmas 1944 for the American POWs in Stalag 17 and the men in Barracks 4, all serge...
Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychia...
Inspired by true events, Olympic swimmer Harry Melchior defects from East Germany in the 1960s and h...
Sarajevo June 28, 1914. Dushan, the Serbian mayor of a Hungarian town, has come to see the parade of...
A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieute...
After a fictitious marriage with a Russian emigrant, Cellisten Louka, a Czech man, must suddenly tak...
A death row inmate turns for spiritual guidance to a local nun in the days leading up to his schedul...
A recently widowed American begins an anonymous sexual relationship with a young Parisian woman.
The boyfriend of an abducted woman never gives up the search as the abductor looks on.
Two 17-year-old boys mark the new year by doing twelve dangerous but exciting tasks set for them by ...
In Berlin in 1961, an American soldier and a German engineer join forces to build a tunnel under the...
While escaping from prison to be with her lesbian friend, a 19-year-old girl breaks her ankle and is...
The true story of a white South African racist whose life was profoundly altered by the black prison...
The story of an idealist's rise to power in the world of Louisiana politics and the corruption that ...
While excerpts of the score are popular today, like the Hungarian March in the first part or Marguer...
Like Handel’s Orlando (1732) and Ariodante (1734), Alcina derives from the narrative material in Ari...
Mozart’s early masterpiece returned to the Met for the first time in more than a decade with Music D...
Tchaikovsky’s setting of Pushkin’s timeless verse novel is presented on the Met stage in Deborah War...
In his new production, Robert Carsen places the action at the end of the Habsburg Empire, underscori...