Ileana Cotrubas

Die Montagsmaler

Da Capo

Rigoletto

A Victor Hugo play, haunting and scandalous, provided the inspiration for Verdi’s mid-career masterpiece. A ven...

Les Contes d'Hoffmann

Seeking to exorcise the failure of his current love affair, the poet Hoffmann tells the tales of his three past...

La Traviata - The Met

James Levine leads a remarkable cast in one of Verdi’s most enduringly popular operas and brings fresh insights...

The Magic Flute

Mozart’s “The Magic Flute”

The Metropolitan Opera Centennial Gala

In celebration of its 100th anniversary in 1983, the Metropolitan Opera hosts a four-hour performance uniting s...

Idomeneo

Opera royalty Luciano Pavarotti brings dignity and power to the title role in this 1982 production. During a sq...

Don Carlo

A 1985 performance of Luchino Visconti's 1958 staging for the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Bernard Haitink...

Metropolitan Opera Gala James Levine's 25th Anniversary

This tribute to James Levine, first shown on PBS, was only part of that glorious evening. Here we have the whol...

A Midsummer Night's Dream

The Glyndebourne Opera's 1981 production of the Benjamin Britten opera, based on Shakespeare's play.

The Marriage of Figaro

Live performance of Mozart's opera buffa "Le nozze di Figaro" from the Glyndebourne Festival Opera in 1973, fea...

La Bohème

Performance of La Bohème in Teatro alla Scala, 1979.

La Bohème

1982 revival of 1974 John Copley production.

Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream

Opera in Three Acts. Libretto adapted from William Shakespeare by Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears. Filmed at G...

The Three Sopranos - Gala Performance with Renata Scotto, Ileana Cotrubas and Elena Obraztsova

Carlos Kleiber: I am Lost to the World

Austrian classical conductor Carlos Kleiber (1930-2004) was as eccentric and reclusive as he was brilliant, per...