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The Kennedy Center Honors is an annual honor given to those in the performing arts for their lifetime of contri...
Blending lively music and brilliant animation, this sequel to the original 'Fantasia' restores 'The Sorcerer's...
This “Traviata” became one of the most succesful of all opera films, especially in France, where 800,000 Parisi...
John Copley’s colorful production, with designs by Beni Montresor, was created around the beloved superstar Luc...
A documentary on the making of Fantasia 2000.
This all-star cast is framed by Peter Hall’s gritty, realistic production and conducted by James Levine, who br...
Verdi’s monumental score is fully the equal of Shakespeare’s famous tragedy—and both demand great actors. This...
A Victor Hugo play, haunting and scandalous, provided the inspiration for Verdi’s mid-career masterpiece. A ven...
Puccini’s heartbreaking story of young love in the garrets of Belle Epoque Paris has attracted many famous sing...
In celebration of its 100th anniversary in 1983, the Metropolitan Opera hosts a four-hour performance uniting s...
This tribute to James Levine, first shown on PBS, was only part of that glorious evening. Here we have the whol...
In the depths of the Rhine, the three Rhinemaidens guard the Rhinegold, a treasure of immeasurable value. The N...
Donizetti’s timeless comedy shines in Otto Schenk’s enchanting production, conducted by James Levine and featur...
As renowned for its harmonious overture as for its romantic storybook characters, this three-act masterwork fea...
This evocative production by Giancarlo Del Monaco sumptuously captures the look and feel of 14th century Genoa...
Inspired by Wagner’s own tortured affair with the wife of his patron, this searing masterwork is based on Arthu...
Leonora plans to elope with Don Alvaro, but he accidentally shoots and kills her father, who curses them as he...
This film was prepared as a introduction to a series of opera broadcasts on German television. It depicts the b...
The opera's dramatic structure frames and enhances the characters. Scenes of magnificence regularly alternate w...
James Levine leads a stirring performance of Wagner’s epic comedy, seen in Otto Schenk’s classic production. Ba...
Mozart’s early masterpiece returned to the Met for the first time in more than a decade with Music Director Eme...
It is to composer and librettist Arrigo Boito and his constant pestering of the octogenarian Verdi that there r...
The Met production easily has the most beautiful staging, designed by Otto Schenck, who also produced the fabul...
Switzerland's annual Verbier Festival has become one of the premier international musical celebrations, attract...
Mozart’s allegorical fairy tale has charmed audiences and inspired artists, for more than 200 years. A few week...
The gorgeous and evocative Otto Schenk/Günther Schneider-Siemssen production continues with this second opera i...
Renata Scotto is the innocent Luisa, very much in love with Rodolfo (Plácido Domingo in one of his best roles)....
Late Academy Award–winning director Anthony Minghella made his Met debut on Opening Night of the 2006–07 season...
Jessye Norman is a regal Ariadne, the mythological Greek heroine in this opera-within-an-opera, opposite the pa...
Siegfried is the third of the four operas that constitute Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung), b...
Opera royalty Luciano Pavarotti brings dignity and power to the title role in this 1982 production. During a sq...
The Otto Schenk production of Richard Strauss's "Elektra", filmed live at the Metropolitan Opera in January, 19...
In this stunning performance from 1982, Strauss’s enchanting fairy tale for adults is blessed with a cast, cond...
Luciano Pavarotti brings his spectacular voice and artistry to one of the most famous of all tenor roles—Manric...
The legendary Plácido Domingo brings another new baritone role to the Met under the baton of his longtime colla...
With James Levine at the helm, Verdi’s multi-faceted masterpiece is revealed as a drama of almost Shakespearean...