The Metropolitan Opera Movies
- 2010
Bizet: Carmen
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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. Elīna Garanča leads the...
- 2008
The Metropolitan Opera – Verdi: Macbeth
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Verdi’s admiration for Shakespeare led to such masterpieces as Othello and Falstaff, and if the earlier Macbeth isn’t on their exalted level it’s stil...
- 1980
Puccini: Manon Lescaut
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All the throbbing eroticism—and ultimate heartbreak—of Puccini’s youthful score is unleashed by James Levine and his top-flight cast. Plácido Domingo...
- 2015
Verdi: Macbeth
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Star soprano Anna Netrebko created a sensation in her first Met performances as the malevolent Lady Macbeth, the central character in Verdi’s retellin...
- 2022
Intimate Apparel
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Experience the story of seamstress Esther who begins writing to a mysterious suitor laboring on the Panama Canal. Featuring a libretto by Pulitzer Pri...
- 2015
Verdi: Otello
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Tony Award winner Bartlett Sher’s bold new production probes the psychological underpinnings of Verdi’s dynamic setting of Shakespeare’s great tragedy...
- 2018
The Metropolitan Opera: La Bohème
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Puccini’s timeless love story, which includes some of its composer’s most beloved music, has moved generations of opera lovers since its 1896 world pr...
- 1994
Arabella
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Arabella, Op. 79, is a lyric comedy or opera in three acts by Richard Strauss to a German libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, their sixth and last oper...
- 1992
The Ghosts of Versailles
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What happened to Figaro and his friends after the events told in Rossini’s and Mozart’s operas? One possible sequel is told in John Corigliano’s “gran...
- 2006
The Magic Flute
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Tamino, a handsome prince, and Papageno, a bird-catcher, are sent by the Queen of Night to rescue her daughter Pamina from captivity under the high pr...
- 2007
Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin
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The pain of unrequited love is portrayed unforgettably by two of today’s greatest stars. Renée Fleming is musically and dramatically radiant as the sh...
- 2008
Massenet: Thaïs
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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...
- 2016
The Metropolitan Opera - Puccini: Manon Lescaut
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Kristine Opolais is the young woman whose conflicting desires for love and luxury lead to her tragic end, and Roberto Alagna plays the man who falls f...
- 2009
Offenbach: Les Contes d'Hoffmann
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Live from the Metropolitan Opera 19 December 2009.
- 2008
Strauss: Salome
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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, Mattila...
- 1987
Turandot
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The Franco Zeffirelli production of Puccini's "Turandot", recorded live at the Metropolitan Opera in April, 1987. Éva Marton stars as Turandot, with P...
- 2007
Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia
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Audiences went wild for Bartlett Sher’s dynamic production, which found fresh and surprising ways to bring Rossini’s effervescent comedy closer to the...
- 2016
The Metropolitan Opera: Turandot
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Franco Zeffirelli’s golden production stars the great dramatic soprano Nina Stemme as Turandot, the icy Chinese princess who has renounced all men. Ma...
- 2010
Rossini: Armida
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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 drama, desig...
- 2016
Bizet: The Pearl Fishers
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Bizet’s rarely heard opera returned to the Met for the first time in a century on New Year’s Eve 2015, in Penny Woolcock’s acclaimed new production. S...