Sherrill Milnes

Great Performances

The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfo...

The Big Show

The Big Show is an American comedy-variety-musical television series produced and broadcast by NBC for several...

Tosca

Opera is an inherently theatrical medium that does not lend itself readily to the realism of film treatment. Th...

Aida

AIDA, an Ethiopian princess, is captured and brought into slavery in Egypt. A military commander, Radamès, stru...

Luisa Miller: Metropolitan Opera

Renata Scotto is the innocent Luisa, very much in love with Rodolfo (Plácido Domingo in one of his best roles)....

Ernani

Verdi's early masterpiece is based on a Victor Hugo play with a complicated plot concerning a young woman and t...

La Fanciulla del West

Giancarlo Del Monaco’s atmospheric production brings to colorful life a 19th-century mining camp during the Cal...

Nabucco

Il Trovatore

Luciano Pavarotti brings his spectacular voice and artistry to one of the most famous of all tenor roles—Manric...

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...

In Concert at The Met

In Concert at the Met (DVD) - Highlights Five of the Met's greatest stars - Price, Horne, Troyanos, Domingo, an...

Simon Boccanegra

Live from the Metropolitan Opera: Simon Boccanegra

Don Carlo

Don Carlo (1980) Metropolitan Opera. Verdi / italian. King Philip's court is plagued by rebels, family squabble...

Rigoletto - Verdi

Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci

Plácido Domingo accomplishes the rare feat of singing both leads on the same night at the Met in 1978 on opera'...

The Metropolitan Opera: Aida

Pharaoh's daughter Amneris loves general Radames, but he loves slave Aida. Aida's father leads the Ethiopian ar...

Otello - The Met

In an Opening Night performance for the history books, the great Plácido Domingo sings the title role of Verdi’...