Most Viewed From The Metropolitan Opera

Richard Eyre’s stunning new production of Bizet’s opera was the talk of the town when it was unveiled on New Year’s Eve 2009....

Genre: Music

Cast: Roberto Alagna

When the most voluptuous, sought-after courtesan in the world meets an ascetic monk whose life is devoted to God, you know erotic sparks are going to...

Genre: Music

Cast: Renée Fleming

Star soprano Anna Netrebko created a sensation in her first Met performances as the malevolent Lady Macbeth, the central character in Verdi’s...

Genre: Music

Cast: Željko Lučić

Wagner’s Romantic opera demands singing actors who can truly inhabit their parts, and that’s just what we have here. Is it possible for a...

Genre: Music

Cast: Peter Hofmann

Tony Award winner Bartlett Sher’s bold new production probes the psychological underpinnings of Verdi’s dynamic setting of...

Genre: Music

Cast: Aleksandrs Antonenko

Just as a young woman is about to marry her sweetheart, she is discovered—by the entire village, to say nothing of her...

Genre: Music

Cast: Natalie Dessay

It is no wonder that Met audiences have gone wild over Karita Mattila’s sizzling Salome. Indisputably one of the greatest Salomes of our time,...

Genre: Music

Cast: Karita Mattila

Verdi's opera performed by the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, conducted by James Levine.

Genre: Music

Cast: Luciano Pavarotti

It is a rare opera indeed that calls for one soprano diva and no fewer than six tenors. Mary Zimmerman’s fanciful production of Rossini’s...

Genre: Music

Cast: Renée Fleming

Live performance from the Metropolitan Opera, 31 December 1986.

Genre: Music

Cast: Kiri Te Kanawa

Opera royalty Luciano Pavarotti brings dignity and power to the title role in this 1982 production. During a squall at sea, Idomeneo -- the king of...

Genre: Music

Cast: Luciano Pavarotti

In ancient Babylon, SEMIRAMIDE (Anderson) encourages her lover Assur (Ramey) to murder her husband, King Ninus. Her son, Ninius, disappears, believed...

Genre: Drama

Cast: June Anderson

A youthful cast brings Rossini’s immortal comedy to sparkling life, led by Christopher Maltman as Figaro, the resourceful barber and...

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Cast: Isabel Leonard

Live performance from the Metropolitan Opera, 25 March 1997.

Genre: Music

Cast: Waltraud Meier

Valery Gergiev conducts Mariusz Trelinski’s thrilling new production of these rarely heard one-act operas. Anna Netrebko stars as the blind...

Genre: Music

Cast: Anna Netrebko

A stellar cast brings Puccini’s spellbinding opera to life, seizing every opportunity to thrill the audience. Luciano Pavarotti is Cavaradossi,...

Genre: Music

Cast: Shirley Verrett

Verdi’s admiration for Shakespeare led to such masterpieces as Othello and Falstaff, and if the earlier Macbeth isn’t on their exalted...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Željko Lučić

Experience the story of seamstress Esther who begins writing to a mysterious suitor laboring on the Panama Canal. Featuring a libretto by Pulitzer...

Genre: Music

Cast: Kearstin Piper Brown

Puccini’s heartbreaking story of young love in the garrets of Belle Epoque Paris has attracted many famous singers through the years. But with...

Genre: Music

Cast: Renata Scotto

The pain of unrequited love is portrayed unforgettably by two of today’s greatest stars. Renée Fleming is musically and dramatically...

Genre: Music

Cast: Dmitri Hvorostovsky