Movies: The Metropolitan Opera

  • 2014
    The Metropolitan Opera: Il Barbiere di Siviglia

    The Metropolitan Opera: Il Barbiere di Siviglia (2014)

    The Metropolitan Opera: Il Barbiere di Siviglia

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    A youthful cast brings Rossini’s immortal comedy to sparkling life, led by Christopher Maltman as Figaro, the resourceful barber and man-about-town of the title. The lovely Isabel Leonard is Rosina, the clever young woman at the center of the story, ...

    The Metropolitan Opera: Il Barbiere di Siviglia
  • 2008
    Adams: Doctor Atomic

    Adams: Doctor Atomic (2008)

    Adams: Doctor Atomic

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    John Adams’s mesmerizing score, in the powerful production of Penny Woolcock, tells the story of one of the pivotal moments in human history—the creation of the atomic bomb. Conducted by Alan Gilbert in his Met debut, this gripping opera presents the...

    Adams: Doctor Atomic
  • 1990
    Semiramide

    Semiramide (1990)

    Semiramide

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    In ancient Babylon, SEMIRAMIDE (Anderson) encourages her lover Assur (Ramey) to murder her husband, King Ninus. Her son, Ninius, disappears, believed dead, and Semiramide rules in her own right. 15 years later, as the opera opens, she is about to ann...

    Semiramide
  • 2008
    Puccini: La Bohème

    Puccini: La Bohème (2008)

    Puccini: La Bohème

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    Puccini’s evergreen paean to young love and the bohemian life has captivated generations of Met-goers through Franco Zeffirelli’s iconic production. Movie theater audiences for the high-definition transmission of this staging got to see it with fresh...

    Puccini: La Bohème
  • 2008
    Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust

    Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust (2008)

    Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust

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    Radiant mezzo-soprano Susan Graham and dashing Italian tenor Marcello Giordani are unlucky lovers in La Damnation de Faust, Hector Berlioz’s classic take on dancing with the devil....

    Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust
  • 1991
    L'Elisir d'Amore

    L'Elisir d'Amore (1991)

    L'Elisir d'Amore

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    John Copley’s colorful production, with designs by Beni Montresor, was created around the beloved superstar Luciano Pavarotti. As the simple, good-hearted Nemorino, he enchanted audiences with his larger-than-life personality as well as his golden vo...

    L'Elisir d'Amore
  • 1987
    Turandot

    Turandot (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 Plácido Domingo as Calaf, Leona Mitchell as Liù, Paul Plishka as Timur, and Hugues Cuenod as L'Impera...

    Turandot
  • 2018
    The Metropolitan Opera: La Bohème

    The Metropolitan Opera: La Bohème (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 premiere. It has also proved incredibly popular with the Met’s global HD audiences and has been featur...

    The Metropolitan Opera: La Bohème
  • 2015
    The Metropolitan Opera: The Merry Widow

    The Metropolitan Opera: The Merry Widow (2015)

    The Metropolitan Opera: The Merry Widow

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    Renée Fleming lights up the Met stage as Hanna Glawari, the fabulously wealthy widow of the title in Lehár’s beloved operetta, set in Paris and seen in a glittering production directed and choreographed by Broadway’s Susan Stroman. Nathan Gunn is Dan...

    The Metropolitan Opera: The Merry Widow
  • 1992
    The Ghosts of Versailles

    The Ghosts of Versailles (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 “grand opera buffa” The Ghosts of Versailles—an uproariously funny and deeply moving work inspired by Bea...

    The Ghosts of Versailles
  • 2008
    The Metropolitan Opera: La Fille du Régiment

    The Metropolitan Opera: La Fille du Régiment (2008)

    The Metropolitan Opera: La Fille du Régiment

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    Madcap physical comedy and impeccable coloratura come together for Natalie Dessay’s indelible portrayal of the feisty tomboy raised by a regiment of French soldiers. Juan Diego Flórez is the young Swiss villager who conquers her heart—and a slew of h...

    The Metropolitan Opera: La Fille du Régiment
  • 1978
    Tosca

    Tosca (1978)

    Tosca

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    A stellar cast brings Puccini’s spellbinding opera to life, seizing every opportunity to thrill the audience. Luciano Pavarotti is Cavaradossi, the painter and political revolutionary in love with the beautiful and famous singer Tosca (the riveting S...

    Tosca
  • 2014
    The Metropolitan Opera: The Marriage of Figaro

    The Metropolitan Opera: The Marriage of Figaro (2014)

    The Metropolitan Opera: The Marriage of Figaro

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    Richard Eyre’s elegant production, which opened the Met’s 2014–15 season, sets the action of Mozart’s timeless social comedy in a manor house in 1930s Seville. Ildar Abdrazakov leads the cast as the resourceful Figaro set on outwitting his master, th...

    The Metropolitan Opera: The Marriage of Figaro
  • 2010
    Wagner: Das Rheingold

    Wagner: Das Rheingold (2010)

    Wagner: Das Rheingold

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    Robert Lepage’s landmark staging of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen, unveiled over the course of the 2010–11 and 2011–12 seasons, was the first new Met production of the complete cycle in more than 20 years. Combining state-of-the-art technology wit...

    Wagner: Das Rheingold
  • 2009
    Rossini: La Cenerentola

    Rossini: La Cenerentola (2009)

    Rossini: La Cenerentola

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    "Irresistible" (Opera News) rising-star mezzo Elina Garanca triumphs as Rossini's Cinderella in this delightful Metropolitan Opera production. "As close to pure joy as you will find in a big-time opera house" (New Yorker), conquering audiences and cr...

    Rossini: La Cenerentola
  • 1988
    Les Contes d'Hoffmann

    Les Contes d'Hoffmann (1988)

    Les Contes d'Hoffmann

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    Otto Schenk’s brilliant production captures both the dark romanticism of the story as well as its fairy-tale magic. It is a superb setting for Neil Shicoff’s vivid portrayal of the tortured poet Hoffmann, as he recounts the loves of his life and the ...

    Les Contes d'Hoffmann
  • 2016
    The Metropolitan Opera: L’Amour de Loin

    The Metropolitan Opera: L’Amour de Loin (2016)

    The Metropolitan Opera: L’Amour de Loin

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    Robert Lepage’s dreamlike production, with its thousands of twinkling LED lights stretching across the stage to represent the sea, encapsulates the mystic feeling of L’Amour de Loin, Saariaho’s haunting opera of distant love. Eric Owens is Jaufré Rud...

    The Metropolitan Opera: L’Amour de Loin
  • 2001
    Die Meistersinger Von Nürnberg

    Die Meistersinger Von Nürnberg (2001)

    Die Meistersinger Von Nürnberg

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    James Morris leads an all-star cast including Karita Mattila, Ben Heppner, Thomas Allen and René Pape, in this production of Wagner's comic opera, recorded live at New York's Metropolitan Opera in 2001. James Levine conducts....

    Die Meistersinger Von Nürnberg
  • 2008
    The Metropolitan Opera – Verdi: Macbeth

    The Metropolitan Opera – Verdi: Macbeth (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 still a powerfully dramatic opera that hews closely to the original’s story line. The MET’s production r...

    The Metropolitan Opera – Verdi: Macbeth
  • 2022
    The Metropolitan Opera: Rigoletto

    The Metropolitan Opera: Rigoletto (2022)

    The Metropolitan Opera: Rigoletto

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    One of opera’s grimmest tragedies received a powerful new production during the 2021–22 season when director Bartlett Sher unveiled his Weimar-era staging of Verdi’s Rigoletto. In this performance, recorded as part of the company’s Live in HD series ...

    The Metropolitan Opera: Rigoletto