MET Orchestra
Thrilling audiences with more than 200 performances each season, the MET Orchestra is one of the world’s great performing ensembles, both on stage and in the opera pit. Since its founding in 1883, the MET Orchestra’s performances have encompassed not only the entire opera repertoire, but symphonic and chamber programs at Carnegie Hall, international tours, and countless musician activities outside of the Metropolitan Opera House. The MET Orchestra has grown in the past four decades into an ensemble noted by singers, critics, conductors, and audiences as one of today’s most stylistically versatile and musically satisfying orchestras.
Otello
as uncreditedVerdi’s monumental score is fully the equal of Shakespeare’s famous tragedy—and both demand...
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La traviata
as uncreditedThis “Traviata” became one of the most succesful of all opera films, especially in France, where...
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Verdi: Nabucco
as uncreditedThe legendary Plácido Domingo brings another new baritone role to the Met under the baton of his...
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The Metropolitan Opera: Turandot
as uncreditedChristine Goerke has wowed audiences as Turandot, the icy princess at the heart of Puccini’s...
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Die Walküre
as uncreditedThe gorgeous and evocative Otto Schenk/Günther Schneider-Siemssen production continues with this...
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Der Rosenkavalier
as uncreditedIn his new production, Robert Carsen places the action at the end of the Habsburg Empire,...
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Das Rheingold
as uncreditedFrom the gorgeous scene deep in the river Rhine that opens the opera, up to the magic Rainbow...
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Massenet: Thaïs
as uncreditedWhen the most voluptuous, sought-after courtesan in the world meets an ascetic monk whose life...
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Gounod: Faust
as uncreditedTenor Jonas Kaufmann is riveting as the title character of Gounod’s popular opera, seen in this...
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Macbeth
as uncreditedStar soprano Anna Netrebko created a sensation with her riveting performance as the malevolent...
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Bizet: Carmen
as uncreditedRichard Eyre’s stunning new production of Bizet’s opera was the talk of the town when it was...
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Carmen
as uncreditedThis all-star cast is framed by Peter Hall’s gritty, realistic production and conducted by James...
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Turandot
as uncreditedThe Franco Zeffirelli production of Puccini's "Turandot", recorded live at the Metropolitan...
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Philip Glass: Akhnaten
as uncreditedPhilip Glass’ opera “Akhnaten”, premiered in Stuttgart in 1984, forms the third part of the...
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The Metropolitan Opera: La Fille du Régiment
as Themselves - OrchestraMadcap physical comedy and impeccable coloratura come together for Natalie Dessay’s indelible...
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Arabella
as uncreditedArabella, Op. 79, is a lyric comedy or opera in three acts by Richard Strauss to a German...
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Puccini: Turandot
as uncreditedFranco Zeffirelli's magnificient staging of Puccini's final opera - a fairy tale set in a...
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Bizet: Carmen
as uncreditedGeorgian mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili gives a dynamic performance as Bizet’s iconic gypsy,...
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The Metropolitan Opera: La Traviata
as uncreditedLa Traviata’s sumptuous melodies and timeless depiction of doomed love have made the work a...
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Tosca
as uncreditedA stellar cast brings Puccini’s spellbinding opera to life, seizing every opportunity to thrill...
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Bellini: Norma
as uncreditedDeep in a forest where druids and warriors seek revenge against the conquering Romans, Norma is...
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Verdi: Aida
as uncreditedWith its cast of hundreds, thrilling score, and sweeping tale of love and heroics in ancient...
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Rigoletto
as uncreditedA Victor Hugo play, haunting and scandalous, provided the inspiration for Verdi’s mid-career...
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Siegfried
as uncreditedSiegfried is the third of the four operas that constitute Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of...
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Falstaff
as uncreditedIt is to composer and librettist Arrigo Boito and his constant pestering of the octogenarian...
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Der Rosenkavalier
as uncreditedIn this stunning performance from 1982, Strauss’s enchanting fairy tale for adults is blessed...
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The Metropolitan Opera – Verdi: Macbeth
as uncreditedVerdi’s admiration for Shakespeare led to such masterpieces as Othello and Falstaff, and if the...
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Berg: Wozzeck
as uncreditedBerg’s 20th-century shocker stars baritone Peter Mattei in the title role, with Music Director...
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Strauss: Elektra
as SelfThe great singing actress Nina Stemme gives a heart-wrenching performance in the title role of...
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Parsifal
as uncreditedThe Met assembled an ideal cast for François Girard’s acclaimed new production of Wagner’s final...
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La Bohème
as uncreditedPuccini’s heartbreaking story of young love in the garrets of Belle Epoque Paris has attracted...
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Massenet: Cendrillon
as uncreditedThe 2017–18 Live in HD season concluded with an enchanted performance of Cendrillon, Massenet’s...
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Lohengrin
as uncreditedWagner’s Romantic opera demands singing actors who can truly inhabit their parts, and that’s...
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The Metropolitan Opera: Il Barbiere di Siviglia
as uncreditedA youthful cast brings Rossini’s immortal comedy to sparkling life, led by Christopher Maltman...
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The Metropolitan Opera HD Live Gounod's Romeo et Juliette
as uncreditedThe world’s most famous love story comes to operatic life with superstars Anna Netrebko and...
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The Metropolitan Opera: Götterdämmerung
as uncreditedRing Cycle, pt 4. Siegfried is drugged and tricked into kidnapping his wife, since she has the...
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Tosca
as uncreditedSir David McVicar’s bold new staging of Tosca, Puccini’s operatic thriller of Napoleonic Rome,...
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Händel: Rodelinda
as uncreditedRenée Fleming stars in the title role of one of Handel’s greatest dramas, seen in Stephen...
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Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust
as uncreditedRadiant mezzo-soprano Susan Graham and dashing Italian tenor Marcello Giordani are unlucky...
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Rossini: La Cenerentola
as uncredited"Irresistible" (Opera News) rising-star mezzo Elina Garanca triumphs as Rossini's Cinderella in...
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The Metropolitan Opera: Hansel and Gretel
as uncreditedThis deliciously dark take on the beloved Brothers Grimm fairy tale, appealing to audiences of...
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The Metropolitan Opera: The Marriage of Figaro
as uncreditedRichard Eyre’s elegant production, which opened the Met’s 2014–15 season, sets the action of...
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Don Pasquale
as uncreditedThis John Dexter production, designed by Desmond Heeley, was a parting gift to the great...
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Bizet: The Pearl Fishers
as uncreditedBizet’s rarely heard opera returned to the Met for the first time in a century on New Year’s Eve...
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Idomeneo
as uncreditedOpera royalty Luciano Pavarotti brings dignity and power to the title role in this 1982...
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Die Fledermaus
as uncreditedLive performance from the Metropolitan Opera, 31 December 1986.
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Beethoven Fidelio
as OrchestraWhen Act 2 of Fidelio is being poured out in the most glorious tones imaginable from Mattila,...
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The Metropolitan Opera: La Fille du Régiment
as uncreditedTenor Javier Camarena and soprano Pretty Yende team up for a feast of bel canto vocal...
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The Metropolitan Opera: Siegfried
as uncreditedRobert Lepage’s remarkable Met Opera production of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen, the 2013...
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Il Trovatore
as uncreditedLuciano Pavarotti brings his spectacular voice and artistry to one of the most famous of all...
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Götterdämmerung
as uncreditedThe stupendous climax to Wagner’s four-part Ring cycle is brilliantly realized by the Otto...
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Donizetti: L'Elisir d'Amore
as uncreditedDonizetti’s bubbly romantic comedy about a spunky landowner, a hapless peasant, and the dubious...
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The Metropolitan Opera: The Exterminating Angel
as uncreditedAfter the acclaimed Met premiere of Thomas Adès's "The Tempest" in 2012, the composer returned...
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Tristan und Isolde
as uncreditedInspired by Wagner’s own tortured affair with the wife of his patron, this searing masterwork is...
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Wagner - Der Ring des Nibelungen - Walküre
as uncreditedAs a storm rages, Siegmund the Wälsung, exhausted from pursuit by enemies in the forest,...
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La Sonnambula
as uncreditedJust as a young woman is about to marry her sweetheart, she is discovered—by the entire village,...
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The Metropolitan Opera: Saint-Saëns's Samson et Dalila
as uncreditedA towering biblical epic, Saint-Saëns’s operatic take on the story of Samson and Delilah has...
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The Magic Flute
as uncreditedTamino, a handsome prince, and Papageno, a bird-catcher, are sent by the Queen of Night to...
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Ernani
as OrchestraVerdi's early masterpiece is based on a Victor Hugo play with a complicated plot concerning a...
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Die Meistersinger Von Nürnberg
as uncreditedJames Morris leads an all-star cast including Karita Mattila, Ben Heppner, Thomas Allen and René...
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The Metropolitan Opera: Falstaff
as uncreditedMusic Director James Levine conducts his first new Met production after a two-year absence:...
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Giuseppe Verdi: Simon Boccanegra
as uncreditedThis evocative production by Giancarlo Del Monaco sumptuously captures the look and feel of 14th...
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Elektra
as uncreditedThe Otto Schenk production of Richard Strauss's "Elektra", filmed live at the Metropolitan Opera...
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Metropolitan Opera Gala James Levine's 25th Anniversary
as uncreditedThis tribute to James Levine, first shown on PBS, was only part of that glorious evening. Here...
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The Metropolitan Opera: The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess
as uncreditedThe Gershwins’ modern American masterpiece has its first Met performances in almost three...
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The Metropolitan Opera: The Tempest
as uncreditedComposer Thomas Adès conducts the Met premiere of his powerful opera based on Shakespeare’s last...
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Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin
as uncreditedThe imperious Onegin rejects naive Tatiana's proposal of love and also incites a duel with his...
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The Metropolitan Opera: Luisa Miller
as uncreditedPremiered immediately before the enduring masterpieces Rigoletto, Il Trovatore, and La Traviata,...
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The Metropolitan Opera: The Merry Widow
as uncreditedRenée Fleming lights up the Met stage as Hanna Glawari, the fabulously wealthy widow of the...
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The Ghosts of Versailles
as uncreditedWhat happened to Figaro and his friends after the events told in Rossini’s and Mozart’s operas?...
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The Metropolitan Opera: L'Elisir d'Amore
as uncreditedAnna Netrebko as the beautiful and wealthy Adina leads the cast in Barlett Sher’s production of...
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The Metropolitan Opera: Don Pasquale
as uncreditedDonizetti’s timeless comedy shines in Otto Schenk’s enchanting production, conducted by James...
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The Metropolitan Opera: Rusalka
as uncreditedRenée Fleming sings one of her signature roles, the title character in Dvořák’s sumptuously...
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Massenet: Manon
as uncreditedMassenet’s tale of passion, excess, and their consequences stars rising soprano Lisette Oropesa...
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Poulenc: Dialogues des Carmélites
as uncreditedYannick Nézet-Séguin leads the classic John Dexter production of Poulenc’s devastating story of...
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Berlioz: Les Troyens
as uncreditedBerlioz’s epic masterpiece retells the magnificent saga of the aftermath of the Trojan War and...
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Offenbach: Les Contes d'Hoffmann
as uncreditedLive from the Metropolitan Opera 19 December 2009.
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L'Elisir d'Amore
as uncreditedJohn Copley’s colorful production, with designs by Beni Montresor, was created around the...
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The Metropolitan Opera: Carmen
as uncreditedMezzo-soprano Clémentine Margaine reprises her remarkable portrayal of opera’s ultimate...
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The Enchanted Island, a Baroque pastiche
as uncreditedA contemporary take on the 17th-century genre of the pastiche, this delightful Baroque fantasy...
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The Metropolitan Opera: The Flying Dutchman
as uncreditedFrançois Girard, whose revelatory 2013 take on Parsifal set the recent Met standard for Wagner...
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Philip Glass: Satyagraha
as uncreditedFollowing the success of his first foray into opera, Einstein on the Beach, revolutionary...
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The Metropolitan Opera: Così Fan Tutte
as uncreditedMet Music director James Levine conducts a cast of youthful stars in Mozart’s sophisticated...
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Rigoletto
as uncreditedThe opera's dramatic structure frames and enhances the characters. Scenes of magnificence...
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Metropolitan Opera Live — Marnie
as uncreditedComposer Nico Muhly unveils his second new opera for the Met with this gripping reimagining of...
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Puccini: La Bohème
as uncreditedPuccini’s evergreen paean to young love and the bohemian life has captivated generations of...
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The Metropolitan Opera: La Bohème
as uncreditedPuccini’s timeless love story, which includes some of its composer’s most beloved music, has...
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The Metropolitan Opera: La Traviata
as uncreditedAny new Met production of Verdi’s beloved tragedy La Traviata would be noteworthy, but Michael...
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The Metropolitan Opera: Cavalleria Rusticana & Pagliacci
as uncreditedDirector David McVicar’s new production brings opera’s favorite double bill to new life, setting...
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The Metropolitan Opera: Il Trovatore
as uncreditedVerdi’s IL TROVATORE again storms the Met stage in a star-studded, anvil-wielding cast ,...
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Hansel & Gretel - The Met
as uncreditedThe Metropolitan Opera's performance of "Hansel and Gretel" features music by Engelbert...
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Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice
as uncreditedDirector and choreographer Mark Morris’s production of Gluck’s masterpiece updates the immortal...
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The Met — Tosca
as uncreditedPuccini’s musical thriller of lust, murder, and politics is one of the most dramatically...
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The Metropolitan Opera: Boris Godunov
as uncreditedStephen Wadsworth’s production of Mussorgsky’s epic masterpiece brilliantly captures the...
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Tchaikovsky: Iolanta / Bartók: Bluebeard's Castle
as uncreditedValery Gergiev conducts Mariusz Trelinski’s thrilling new production of these rarely heard...
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An Evening with Joan Sutherland and Luciano Pavarotti
as uncreditedOpera greats Luciano Pavarotti and Joan Sutherland -- one of the most acclaimed tenors and one...
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Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci
as uncreditedPlácido Domingo accomplishes the rare feat of singing both leads on the same night at the Met in...
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Don Carlo
as uncreditedGhiaurov, Freni, and Bumbry were great voices in their time, and they are still effective here...
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The Metropolitan Opera: Die Walküre
as uncreditedRobert Lepage’s landmark staging of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen, unveiled over the course...
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Ludwig van Beethoven: Fidelio
as uncreditedTwo years prior to the opening scene, the nobleman Florestan has exposed or attempted to expose...
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Un Ballo in Maschera
as uncreditedVerdi's opera performed by the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, conducted by James Levine.
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The Metropolitan Opera: Das Rheingold
as uncreditedIn the depths of the Rhine, the three Rhinemaidens guard the Rhinegold, a treasure of...
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The Metropolitan Opera: Don Giovanni
as uncreditedImbuing the familiar Don Juan myth with a captivating combination of comedy, seductiveness,...
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John Adams: Nixon in China
as uncreditedJohn Adams’s groundbreaking work vividly brings to life US President Nixon’s 1972 visit to the...
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Wagner: Das Rheingold
as uncreditedRobert Lepage’s landmark staging of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen, unveiled over the course...
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Richard Wagner: Parsifal
as uncreditedThe Met production easily has the most beautiful staging, designed by Otto Schenck, who also...
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The Metropolitan Opera: L’Amour de Loin
as uncreditedRobert Lepage’s dreamlike production, with its thousands of twinkling LED lights stretching...
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Berlioz: Les Troyens
as uncreditedBerlioz’s colossal masterpiece requires stupendous forces—dozens of soloists, enormous chorus,...
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The Metropolitan Opera: Lulu
as uncreditedWilliam Kentridge’s multi-layered production of Berg’s masterpiece stars charismatic soprano...
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The Metropolitan Opera: Don Carlo
as uncreditedFamily jealousy, threat of rebellion, political back-stabbing and the Inquisition weigh heavy on...
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The Metropolitan Opera: Rigoletto
as uncreditedMichael Mayer’s acclaimed production, first seen in the 2012–13 season, sets the action of...
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The Metropolitan Opera: Ariadne auf Naxos
as uncreditedElijah Moshinsky’s witty production deftly walks the line between the lighthearted humor and the...
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Le Nozze di Figaro
as uncreditedThe Met assembled a vocal dream team for Jonathan Miller’s stylish production of the eternal...
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The Metropolitan Opera: Turandot
as uncreditedFranco Zeffirelli’s golden production stars the great dramatic soprano Nina Stemme as Turandot,...
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L'italiana in Algeri
as OrchestraL'ITALIANA IN ALGERI is an operatic dramma giocoso in two acts by Gioachino Rossini to an...
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Britten: Peter Grimes
as uncreditedAnthony Dean Griffey creates a haunting portrait of the outcast fisherman who struggles under...
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The Metropolitan Opera: Tristan und Isolde
as uncreditedMet audiences were fascinated by Mariusz Treliński’s gripping, visionary production of Wagner’s...
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Adams: Doctor Atomic
as uncreditedJohn Adams’s mesmerizing score, in the powerful production of Penny Woolcock, tells the story of...
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The Metropolitan Opera: The Magic Flute
as uncreditedMozart’s allegorical fairy tale has charmed audiences and inspired artists, for more than 200...
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Francesca da Rimini
as uncreditedLive performance at the Metropolitan Opera, 1984. James Levine conducting Metropolitan Opera...
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The Metropolitan Opera: Capriccio
as uncreditedRenée Fleming is Countess Madeleine, the beautiful, enigmatic woman at the center of Strauss’s...
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Puccini: La Boheme
as uncredited"La Bohème" is one of Giacomo Puccini's most popular and timeless works and the second-most...
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Il Barbiere di Siviglia
as uncreditedAudiences went wild for Bartlett Sher’s dynamic production, which found fresh and surprising...
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Lucia di Lammermoor
as uncreditedThis telecast offers a rare opportunity to see the legendary Joan Sutherland in the role that...
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Richard Strauss: Elektra
as uncreditedIt's hard to imagine confirmed Straussians not wanting this starry Metropolitan Opera...
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The Metropolitan Opera - Wagner: Tannhäuser
as uncreditedAs renowned for its harmonious overture as for its romantic storybook characters, this three-act...
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The Metropolitan Opera: Don Giovanni
as uncreditedTony Award–winning director Ivo van Hove makes a major Met debut with a new take on Mozart’s...
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Le comte Ory
as uncreditedRossini's "Le Comte Ory" tells the story of a libidinous and cunning nobleman who disguises...
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The Metropolitan Opera: Eugene Onegin
as uncreditedTchaikovsky’s setting of Pushkin’s timeless verse novel is presented on the Met stage in Deborah...
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The Metropolitan Opera Centennial Gala
as uncreditedIn celebration of its 100th anniversary in 1983, the Metropolitan Opera hosts a four-hour...
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Un Ballo in Maschera
as uncreditedLive from the Metropolitan Opera, 14 February 1980. This version takes place in Boston rather...
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Le Nozze di Figaro - The Met
as uncreditedFrom the "James Levine: Celebrating 40 Years at the Met" DVD box set. Jean-Pierre Ponnelle’s...
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Mozart: Così fan tutte
as uncreditedTwo men enter a bet with intriguer Alfonso that their women will stay true, but disguise...
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The Metropolitan Opera: The Master-Singers of Nuremberg
as uncreditedJames Levine leads a stirring performance of Wagner’s epic comedy, seen in Otto Schenk’s classic...
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La Forza del Destino
as uncreditedLeonora plans to elope with Don Alvaro, but he accidentally shoots and kills her father, who...
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Ariadne auf Naxos
as uncreditedJessye Norman is a regal Ariadne, the mythological Greek heroine in this opera-within-an-opera,...
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The Metropolitan Opera: Idomeneo
as uncreditedMozart’s early masterpiece returned to the Met for the first time in more than a decade with...
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Giordano: Andrea Chénier
as uncreditedThis live from the Met telecast from October 1996 of Giordano’s infrequently performed verismo...
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The Metropolitan Opera: Agrippina
as uncreditedAs the imperious title empress, mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato leads the Met premiere of Handel’s...
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The Met — Il Trovatore
as uncreditedSoprano Anna Netrebko appears in her highly anticipated Met role debut as Leonora, the tortured...
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The Metropolitan Opera: Adriana Lecouvreur
as uncreditedSoprano Anna Netrebko joins the ranks of Renata Tebaldi, Montserrat Caballé, and Renata Scotto,...
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