Movies: The Metropolitan Opera

  • 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
  • 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
  • 2007
    Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin

    Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin (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 shy Tatiana, who falls in love with the worldly Onegin, played with devastating charisma by Dmitri Hvo...

    Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin
  • 1979
    Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny

    Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (1979)

    Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny

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    John Dexter’s brilliant production, James Levine’s masterful conducting of the eclectic score, and a sensational cast come together to make this Kurt Weill–Bertolt Brecht masterpiece a riveting evening of music theater. At the center of the action is...

    Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
  • 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
  • 2015
    Verdi: Macbeth

    Verdi: Macbeth (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 retelling of Shakespeare’s tragedy. She is joined by Željko Lucic, who brings dramatic intensity and vocal a...

    Verdi: Macbeth
  • 2015
    Verdi: Otello

    Verdi: Otello (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. At the helm of this performance is riveting conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin, who brings out all the...

    Verdi: Otello
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2015
    The Met — Il Trovatore

    The Met — Il Trovatore (2015)

    The Met — Il Trovatore

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    Soprano Anna Netrebko appears in her highly anticipated Met role debut as Leonora, the tortured heroine who sacrifices her own life for the love of the Gypsy troubadour. Dmitri Hvorostovsky sings Count di Luna, Yonghoon Lee is Manrico in his Met role...

    The Met — Il Trovatore
  • 2010
    Rossini: Armida

    Rossini: Armida (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, designed by Richard Hudson and with choreography by Graciela Daniele, provides the perfect setting for su...

    Rossini: Armida
  • 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
  • 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
    Bizet: Carmen

    Bizet: Carmen (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 cast as the iconic gypsy of the title—a woman desired by every man but determined to remain true to ...

    Bizet: Carmen
  • 2007
    Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia

    Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia (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 them than ever before. The stellar cast leapt to the challenge with irresistible energy and bravura voc...

    Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
    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
  • 2006
    The Magic Flute

    The Magic Flute (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 priest Sarastro. Julie Taymor's abridged, English-language production of the classic Mozart opera....

    The Magic Flute