Movies: The Metropolitan Opera

  • 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
  • 2025
    The Metropolitan Opera: Salome

    The Metropolitan Opera: Salome (2025)

    The Metropolitan Opera: Salome

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    Met performances of Strauss’s white-hot one-act tragedy, which receives its first new production at the company in 20 years. Claus Guth, one of Europe’s leading opera directors, gives the biblical story—already filtered through the beautiful and stra...

    The Metropolitan Opera: Salome
  • 1978
    Tosca

    Tosca (1978)

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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
  • 2016
    The Metropolitan Opera - Puccini: Manon Lescaut

    The Metropolitan Opera - Puccini: Manon Lescaut (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 for her in Puccini’s early hit. Richard Eyre’s elegant production, which sets the action in 1940s occ...

    The Metropolitan Opera - Puccini: Manon Lescaut
  • 2015
    Tchaikovsky: Iolanta / Bartók: Bluebeard's Castle

    Tchaikovsky: Iolanta / Bartók: Bluebeard's Castle (2015)

    Tchaikovsky: Iolanta / Bartók: Bluebeard's Castle

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    Valery Gergiev conducts Mariusz Trelinski’s thrilling new production of these rarely heard one-act operas. Anna Netrebko stars as the blind princess of the title in Tchaikovsky’s lyrical work, opposite Piotr Beczala as Vaudémont, the man who wins her...

    Tchaikovsky: Iolanta / Bartók: Bluebeard's Castle
  • 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
  • 2024
    The Metropolitan Opera: La Rondine

    The Metropolitan Opera: La Rondine (2024)

    The Metropolitan Opera: La Rondine

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    Puccini’s bittersweet love story returns to cinemas, with soprano Angel Blue starring as the French courtesan Magda, opposite tenor Jonathan Tetelman as Ruggero, an idealistic young man who offers her an alternative to her life of excess. Maestro Spe...

    The Metropolitan Opera: La Rondine
  • 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
    Strauss: Salome

    Strauss: Salome (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 utterly incarnates Oscar Wilde’s petulant, willful, and lust-driven heroine. With Strauss’s groundb...

    Strauss: Salome
  • 1995
    Giuseppe Verdi: Simon Boccanegra

    Giuseppe Verdi: Simon Boccanegra (1995)

    Giuseppe Verdi: Simon Boccanegra

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    This evocative production by Giancarlo Del Monaco sumptuously captures the look and feel of 14th century Genoa and is a perfect compliment to Verdi’s setting of this story of searing conflict between public duty and private grief. Plácido Domingo is ...

    Giuseppe Verdi: Simon Boccanegra
  • 1990
    Semiramide

    Semiramide (1990)

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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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2016
    Bizet: The Pearl Fishers

    Bizet: The Pearl Fishers (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. Star soprano Diana Damrau sings Leïla, the virgin priestess at the center of the story. Matthew Polen...

    Bizet: The Pearl Fishers
  • 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