The Metropolitan Opera: Götterdämmerung

In Verdi’s retelling of Shakespeare’s towering tragedy, Renée Fleming gives a captivating performanc...

This is an excellent version of one of the greatest of all comic operas, featuring superb singing an...

An all-star cast assembled for the Met’s first-ever performances of Rossini’s romantic retelling of...

The season kicks off with Boitos resplendent retelling of Goethes Faust, a monumental work of 'chora...

Can the darkest moments of life also lift our souls? Drawing on his own experience in a Siberian pri...

Macbeth" was Giuseppe Verdi's first attempt at music drama and also the first manifestation of his p...

When the most voluptuous, sought-after courtesan in the world meets an ascetic monk whose life is de...

Adaptation of John Gay's 18th century opera, featuring Laurence Olivier as MacHeath and Hugh Griffit...

Robert Lepage’s remarkable Met Opera production of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen, the 2013 Grammy...

In Benoît Jacquot’s production, Manet’s Olympia dominates the stage of the Opéra Bastille. In 1863,...

Die Walküre (The Valkyrie), WWV 86B, is the second of the four music dramas that constitute Richard...

The Italian and international press were unanimous in their praise for "Peter Grimes" at La Scala, w...

Walter Felsenstein's staging of Jacques Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann at the Komische Opera Berl...

One of Modest Mussorgsky's great talents was his unique ability to transpose words, psychological st...

Charming, light-hearted and fizzing with subversive wit, Neil Armfield's sparkling production of the...

Early Rossini has a youthful, buoyant vibrancy about it, even in the dark swirls of drammi per music...

In January 2007, superstar soprano Natalie Dessay, joined on stage by acclaimed tenor Juan Diego Flo...

Notre Dame de Paris tells the story of Quasimodo, the hunchbacked bell-ringer of the cathedral of No...

La Vie parisienne (Parisian life) is an opéra bouffe, or operetta, composed by Jacques Offenbach in...