Paul Groves

Candide

Candide falls in love with the beautiful but materialistic Cunegonde. Her barron father doesn't approve of the...

The Metropolitan Opera: Lulu

William Kentridge’s multi-layered production of Berg’s masterpiece stars charismatic soprano Marlis Petersen in...

The Magic Flute

The Queen of the Night enlists a handsome prince named Tamino to rescue her beautiful kidnapped daughter, Princ...

Patrice Chéreau, Pascal Greggory, une autre solitude

A look at the entire process of creating and developing Patrice Chéreau’s third staging of "In the Solitude of...

The First Emperor

The incomparable Plácido Domingo began a new chapter in his legendary Met career when he created the role of Em...

Richard Wagner: Parsifal

The Met production easily has the most beautiful staging, designed by Otto Schenck, who also produced the fabul...

The Metropolitan Opera: Champion

Six-time Grammy Award–winning composer Terence Blanchard brings his first opera to the Met after his Fire Shut...

Cavalli: Eliogabalo

Systematically overturning accepted morals, Elagabalus dresses men as women, and names women to the Senate, fav...

The Metropolitan Opera: Iphigénie en Tauride

Gluck’s gripping adaptation of the ancient Greek myth is vividly brought to life by a stellar cast in Stephen W...

Alceste

John Eliot Gardiner conducts Gluck’s 1776 French version of “Alceste” at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. Sopr...

Lulu

Live performance of Alban Berg's opera at the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona. Inspired by "Pandora's Box" by...

Mozart: Die Entführung Aus Dem Serail

The celebrated three-act opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart comes to life in this dynamic performance at the worl...

Louise - Opera National de Paris

Late 19th-century Paris, home to Louise, her traditional working-class parents and her bohemian artist lover Ju...

L'Elisir d'Amore

Live Paris 2006

Don Giovanni

Live performance at the Metropolitan Opera in 2000.

Mozart in Turkey

British director Elijah Moshinsky traveled to Istanbul's Topkapi Palace with a cast of gifted singers and actor...

Iolanta / Perséphone – Teatro Real

Iolanta is a one act lyric opera, sung in Russian, by Tchaikovsky. Performed in the style of a nineteenth-centu...

The Damnation of Faust

The three main soloists have voices on a scale that can compete with these flashy production values – White and...

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 'Choral' - Seiji Ozawa

Stravinsky's Perséphone

Live Opera performance of Igor Stravinsky's Perséphone. Directed by Peter Sellars