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This deliciously dark take on the beloved Brothers Grimm fairy tale, appealing to audiences of all ages, was part of the Met’s popular...

Genre: Music

Cast: Alice Coote

Otto Schenk’s brilliant production captures both the dark romanticism of the story as well as its fairy-tale magic. It is a superb setting for...

Genre: Music

Cast: Neil Shicoff

Wagner’s Romantic opera demands singing actors who can truly inhabit their parts, and that’s just what we have here. Is it possible for a...

Genre: Music

Cast: Peter Hofmann

Radiant mezzo-soprano Susan Graham and dashing Italian tenor Marcello Giordani are unlucky lovers in La Damnation de Faust, Hector Berlioz’s...

Genre: Music

Cast: Marcello Giordani

This John Dexter production, designed by Desmond Heeley, was a parting gift to the great American soprano Beverly Sills, who bid farewell to the Met...

Genre: Music

Cast: Gabriel Bacquier

When this sumptuous production by Giancarlo del Monaco opened in 1995, legendary tenor Plácido Domingo gave a riveting performance as the...

Genre: Music

Cast: Plácido Domingo

Extraordinary soprano Asmik Grigorian tackles the demanding role of Cio-Cio-San, the loyal geisha at the heart of Puccini’s devastating...

Genre: Music

Cast: Asmik Grigorian

James Levine leads a stirring performance of Wagner’s epic comedy, seen in Otto Schenk’s classic production. Baritone Michael Volle stars...

Genre: Music

Cast: Michael Volle

Live performance from the Metropolitan Opera, 31 December 1986.

Genre: Music

Cast: Kiri Te Kanawa

The success of Verdi’s third opera, a stirring drama about the fall of ancient Jerusalem at the hands of Nebuchadnezzar (Nabucco), catapulted...

Genre: Music

Cast: George Gagnidze

Live performance at the Metropolitan Opera, 1984. James Levine conducting Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus. Stage direction by Piero Faggioni.

Genre: Music

Cast: Renata Scotto

Puccini's Il Tabarro & Leoncavallo's Pagliacci; Pavarotti and Domingo star in MET 1994-1995 season opener.

Genre: Music

Cast: James Levine

Verdi's opera performed by the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, conducted by James Levine.

Genre: Music

Cast: Luciano Pavarotti

In Concert at the Met (DVD) - Highlights Five of the Met's greatest stars - Price, Horne, Troyanos, Domingo, and Milnes - joined James Levine for a...

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Cast: Tatiana Troyanos

This telecast offers a rare opportunity to see the legendary Joan Sutherland in the role that first catapulted her to international stardom. She...

Genre: Music

Cast: Joan Sutherland

Live performance from the Metropolitan Opera, 27 February, 1996.

Genre: Music

Cast: Carol Vaness

John Dexter’s brilliant production, James Levine’s masterful conducting of the eclectic score, and a sensational cast come together to...

Genre: Music

Cast: Richard Cassilly

Robert Lepage’s landmark staging of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen, unveiled over the course of the 2010–11 and 2011–12...

Genre: Music

Cast: Bryn Terfel

Just as a young woman is about to marry her sweetheart, she is discovered—by the entire village, to say nothing of her...

Genre: Music

Cast: Natalie Dessay

It's hard to imagine confirmed Straussians not wanting this starry Metropolitan Opera performance of Elektra. Strauss and his librettist, Hugo von...

Genre: Music

Cast: Mignon Dunn