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A fascinating and romantic Rapture mixing French lyricism andoriental exoticism. Full current orientalist, Bizet embarks on a work where the action is supposed to take ...

A fascinating and romantic Rapture mixing French lyricism andoriental exoticism. Full current orientalist, Bizet embarks on a work where the action is supposed to take ...

The ballet, based on the novel by Miguel de Cervantes, is a classic of the virtuos repertoire. The ideal protagonist is the hero of battles ...

Ariodante, tricked by his rival Polinesso into believing that his future wife Ginevra has been unfaithful, flees. Believing Ariodante dead, disowned by her father the ...

Escape into an enchanted world of castles, curses, forests and fairies as BalletMet brings back to the stage the most celebrated classical ballet of all ...

de Piotr Ilitch Tchaikovski...

Patricia Racette won plaudits when she first sang the title role at the Met in 2010. Now she returns with Roberto Alagna and Aleksandrs Antonenko ...

A fascinating and romantic Rapture mixing French lyricism andoriental exoticism. Full current orientalist, Bizet embarks on a work where the action is supposed to take ...

The renowned scholar Michael Henry Heim, professor of Slavic languages and literature at the University of California, has written a brilliant new translation of this ...

Candide, a satirical operetta, takes you on a wild journey exploring optimism in the face of relentless misfortune. Based on Voltaire's 1759 novella of the ...

Libretto by Yuri Grigorovich after the novel of the same name by Raffaello Giovagnolli, ideas from the scenario by Nikolai Volkov used...

Opera in two acts...

This tragedy tells the story of two “star-cross'd lovers” from feuding families. During a party, Romeo and Juliet fall in love. They meet secretly until ...

This new production of Bournonville’s La Sylphide at the Bolshoi is by the Dane Johan Kobborg who is eminently qualified to do the job. He ...

A catastrophe has befallen the civilization of Earth. The Sun has hardly shone in many years. The new generation of survivors are trying to endure ...

Ballet in two acts Adults only...

With no news from her fiance Ruggiero, the valiant Bradamante has decided to search for him in the guise of her own brother Ricciardo, accompanied ...

Throughout the XX century Dostoevsky's philosophical and expressive prose - namely his major novel The Idiot - aroused keen interest among composers. Taking Dostoyevsky's novel ...

The heart is a flower blooming in the mystery of the night. A summer affair turns to winter chill when a country girl with tender ...

In 1556, the Emperor Charles V abdicated, celebrated his own funeral and retired to the monastery of San Jeronimo at Yuste. His son Philip II ...

Book by Alexander Belinsky and Alexei Ratmansky on the basis of the original libretto by Nikolai Volkov and Vladimir Dmitriev...

Billy Budd is based on a first class literary source – an unfinished story, Billy Budd, Foretopman by the American author Herman Melville, dated 1891. ...

Act I Cesare Angelotti, an escaped political prisoner, runs into the church of Sant’Andrea della Valle to hide in the Attavanti family chapel. At the ...

Part One Alfredo Germont arrives at a party at the home of Violetta Valéry, a renowned courtesan. She is surprised to learn of his devotion ...

Act I Scene 1 Madame Larina’s Garden Madame Larina, Olga and the nurse are finishing the party dresses and gossiping about Tatiana’s upcoming birthday festivities. ...

Act I The Carousal Chamber in Oprichnik Grigory Gryaznoy’s house. Grigory is desperate: he has fallen passionately in love with Marfa, daughter of the merchant ...

Act I The walls of the imperial palace. The square is full with a crowd which is listening to the Mandarin: Turandot, daughter of Altoum, ...

In 1556, the Emperor Charles V abdicated, celebrated his own funeral and retired to the monastery of San Jeronimo at Yuste. His son Philip II ...

Background Don Jose, a northerner of a respectable family, was studying for the priesthood. He killed a man after a game of cards, and fled ...

Act I Scene 1. The courtyard of an inn near Paris The courtyard at the inn is frequented by actresses, gentlemen and the demi-monde from ...

Opera in two acts...

I part Antonín Dvo?ák Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. 104 Pyotr Kondrashin (cello) II part Dmitri Shostakovich Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. ...

Ludwig van Beethoven String Quartet No.1 in F major, Op.18 No.1 1. Allegro con brio 2. Adagio 3. Scherzo 4. Allegro Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy String ...

I part Alban Berg Piano Sonata, Op.1 Alexander Pravednikov (piano) Robert Schumann Dichterliebe, vocal cycle on poems by Heinrich Heine, Op. 48 Roman Shulakov (tenor) ...

Ottorino Respighi Three Botticelli Pictures for chamber orchestra Antonio Vivaldi Concerto for cello, bassoon, strings and continuo, RV409 Boris Lifanovsky (cello) Andrei Rudometkin (bassoon) Wolfgang ...

Act I Young warriors led by Solor are hunting a tiger. Before entering the forest Solor asks a fakir, named Magedaveya, to tell Nikia, a ...

Act I In the palace preparations are underway for a ’session’ of the boyars’ Duma. They are waiting for the Tsar. The Astrologer appears and ...

I part Vladislava Malakhovskaya “We don’t need pity”, Cantata for Soloists and Chamber Ensemble 1. “October 1941” on poem by Sergei Orlov 2. “You must” ...

Act I Alfred sings a serenade to Rosalinde, but it is Adele who hears it. Adele, intends to go to Prince Orlofsky’s ball and invents ...

Act I Guests are gathering for a Christmas party at the Stahlbaum home. Among them are Drosselmeyer, godfather to Marie and Fritz, the Stahlbaums’ children. ...

Act I A public Square in a small town, on the borders of Galicia, with wooden houses painted with bright colors. One house stands out ...

Act I Scene 1 Tauride Garden A boy nicknamed Piggy-wiggy is walking with his parents in the Tauride Garden. As soon as he sees a ...

Act I A small, peaceful village, bathed in sunlight. It is inhabited by simple, artless people. Giselle, a young peasant girl, is re­joicing in the ...

Soloists Opera young artist program and performers of the Bolshoi Theatre Ensemble of soloists of the Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra...

Act I There is a square of a fairy-tale town. Standing in the square are what seem to be baskets of vegetables and boxes of ...

Act I Scene 1 A Garret In an unheated garret Marcello, an artist, is working on his canvas “Crossing the Red Sea”. He has difficulty ...

Part One Alfredo Germont arrives at a party at the home of Violetta Valéry, a renowned courtesan. She is surprised to learn of his devotion ...

Act I Scene 1 A small wayside halt, in the steppes, on one of the branch lines of the North Caucasian Railway. Early autumn. The ...

Act I A Scottish manor-house It is the morning of James’s marriage to Effie and he is asleep in his armchair. A winged figure, a ...

Scene 1 Madame Larina. Her daughters: Tatiana, Olga. Nurse. Vladimir Lensky. Eugene Onegin. Neighbors, guests. The Larins’ home. Lensky, a neighbor of the Larins and ...

Act I The bell-ringers proclaim young Ivan IV’s accession to the throne. The boyars are disgruntled by the fact, each claiming to have the ancestry ...

Prologue The play has yet to begin but already the personages, who in all the scenes which follow will appear in the role of stage ...

Act I Scene 1 Having gathered together to celebrate a wedding, the peasants complain to the Governor of Rome about the misdeeds of a certain ...

The action takes place in XV century. Iolanta, the blind daughter of the King of Provence, is whiling away the time in the gar­den of ...

The Child does not want to work at his lessons, all he wants to do are the things he is not allowed to do. When ...

The brilliant Russian composer Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) wrote his last opera as a fairy tale, but the authorities in his homeland were not fooled: Behind the ...

Ivan IV de Russie, surnommé Ivan le Terrible, est né en 1530. Il devient Grand Prince de Russie à l’âge de 3 ans, suite à ...

A grandiose Russian operatic epic following the rise and fall of Tsar Boris Godunov and his reign of terror against the boyars and the common ...

Don Quixote and Sancho Panza ride again! Here they are guided by their creator, Miguel de Cervantes, in person. In this "buddies on the road" ...

La sonnambula is an opera semiseria in two acts, with music in the bel canto tradition by Vincenzo Bellini to an Italian libretto by Felice ...

One of the most perfect operas world classical "Spades", like every true masterpiece, its not, and none of the interpretations of the Opera could not ...

Paquita is a ballet in two acts and three scenes, with libretto by Joseph Mazilier and Paul Foucher. Originally choreographed by Joseph Mazilier to the ...

The battle of the sexes rages on in Mozart’s most provocative comedy. As a philosopher engages a quartet of lovers in a subversive game that ...

Once upon a time there was a Star-blazing Queen whose power had failed so much that her daughter, Pamina, was abducted by a powerful sorcerer ...

La Cenerentola, ossia La bontà in trionfo (Cinderella, or Goodness Triumphant) is an operatic dramma giocoso in two acts by Gioachino Rossini. The libretto was ...

Act I The Feldmarschallin’s bedroom. While her husband is away on duty, Princess von Werdenberg, known as the Feldmarschallin, has been having an affair with ...

Act I Soldiers keep watch over the town. Micaela is looking for Corporal Jose, but he is not in this particular platoon. The guard changes ...

Ballet Onegin, based on the famous verse novel by Pushkin, narrates the story of a bored Russian aristocrat who rejects the love of a young ...

Act I The peasants are singing to celebrate the marriage of the rich landowner Elvino to Amina, an orphan adopted by Teresa. In the general ...

The action takes place in XV century. Iolanta, the blind daughter of the King of Provence, is whiling away the time in the gar­den of ...

Act I A Scottish manor-house It is the morning of James’s marriage to Effie and he is asleep in his armchair. A winged figure, a ...

Once upon a time there was a Star-blazing Queen whose power had failed so much that her daughter, Pamina, was abducted by a powerful sorcerer ...

Act I A small, peaceful village, bathed in sunlight. It is inhabited by simple, artless people. Giselle, a young peasant girl, is re­joicing in the ...

Inspired by a visit to Van Cleef & Arpels, Balanchine distilled the brilliant facets of precious stones into a grand display. "Emeralds" moves at Fauré’s ...

Scene 1 Madame Larina. Her daughters: Tatiana, Olga. Nurse. Vladimir Lensky. Eugene Onegin. Neighbors, guests. The Larins’ home. Lensky, a neighbor of the Larins and ...

Borodin Prince Igor opera in three acts...

Act I Following the death of his wife, Pyotr Leontievich, a school-teacher in a provincial town, is left with three children on his hands: a ...

The Child does not want to work at his lessons, all he wants to do are the things he is not allowed to do. When ...

Act I Nabucco, the king of Babylon, is at the gates of Jerusalem. High Priest Zaccaria, to instill courage into the faithful Jews, leads in ...

Act l Scene 1 In an old German castle, the birthday of Prince Siegfried is being celebrated; today he comes of age. He is congratulated ...

Act I Scene 1 A suburb of Marseilles, the town which gave its name to the French National anthem. Through the forest a large group ...

Act I The walls of the imperial palace. The square is full with a crowd which is listening to the Mandarin: Turandot, daughter of Altoum, ...

Scene 1 A crowd throngs by the high walls of the Novodevichy Monastery in Moscow. The boyar, Boris Godunov, has withdrawn to the monastery after ...

Act I Young warriors led by Solor are hunting a tiger. Before entering the forest Solor asks a fakir, named Magedaveya, to tell Nikia, a ...

Act I The bell-ringers proclaim young Ivan IV’s accession to the throne. The boyars are disgruntled by the fact, each claiming to have the ancestry ...