Video: Michael Mayer Is Digging Into a New Kind of AIDA at the Met
by Joey Mervis
- Jan 23, 2025
Michael Mayer grew up with a fascination with ancient Egypt, and it's an interest he is putting to good use this winter. Following his acclaimed work just last year on Broadway's Swept Away, Mayer has moved uptown to bring new life to Verdi's Aida at the Metropolitan Opera. He explains in this video!
Video: Get A First Look At The Return of FIRE SHUT UP IN MY BONES at The Met Opera
by Joshua Wright
- Apr 8, 2024
Get a first look at Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up in My Bones' return to the Met stage. The production's remount begins performances on April 8 for seven performances. Its 2021 premiere made history as the first opera by a Black composer to be presented at the Met and won the 2023 Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording.
Video: Get A First Look at The Met Opera's LA RONDINE
by Joshua Wright
- Mar 28, 2024
Watch as Puccini’s glittering romance La Rodine returns to The Met, starring soprano Angel Blue as Magda, opposite tenor Jonathan Tetelman in his highly anticipated company debut as Ruggero.
Video: Get A First Look At The Met Opera's ROMEO ET JULIETTE
by Joshua Wright
- Mar 8, 2024
Get a first look as Nadine Sierra and Benjamin Bernheim come together as the star-crossed lovers in Gounod’s sumptuous Shakespeare adaptation, with Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin on the podium to conduct Bartlett Sher’s towering production
VIDEO: Get A First Look At The Met Opera's FALSTAFF
by Alan Henry
- Mar 9, 2023
Watch highlights from the Met Opera's production of Falstaff, now on stage through April 1st. Verdi’s glorious Shakespearean comedy features a brilliant ensemble cast in Robert Carsen’s celebrated staging.
VIDEO: Get A First Look At EUGENE ONEGIN at the Met Opera
by Alan Henry
- Mar 29, 2022
Ailyn Pérez has excited Met audiences in several of opera’s benchmark soprano roles, and she adds another one this season as Tatiana, the naïve young girl who grows into a sophisticated beauty in Tchaikovsky’s sumptuous opera of unrequited love.
VIDEO: Get A First Look At ELEKTRA at The Met Opera
by Alan Henry
- Feb 17, 2022
Soprano Nina Stemme brought down the house when she headlined the premiere of visionary director Patrice Chéreau’s 2016 staging of Elektra. Now she returns to Strauss’s unhinged heroine, opposite one of today’s most in-demand artists, soprano Lise Davidsen, as her sister, Chrysothemis. Donald Runnicles is on the podium for one of opera’s most blistering scores, leading a cast that also includes mezzo-soprano Michaela Schuster as Klytämnestra, tenor Stefan Vinke as Aegisth, and bass-baritone Greer Grimsley as Orest.
VIDEO: Watch A New Trailer For The Met Opera's MADAMA BUTTERFLY
by Alan Henry
- Feb 16, 2022
Soprano Eleonora Buratto takes on the touchstone title role of the tragic geisha, following earlier Met successes as Norina in Don Pasquale and Liù in Turandot. Tenor Brian Jagde is the callous American naval officer who betrays her, alongside mezzo-soprano Elizabeth DeShong as her devoted maid Suzuki and baritone David Bizic as the consul Sharpless. Alexander Soddy conducts Anthony Minghella’s evocative, ever-popular staging.
VIDEO: Extended Clips From Met Opera's A Concert for New York
by Alan Henry
- May 18, 2021
Watch as Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts members of the Met Orchestra and Chorus in the 'Lacrimosa' from Mozart's Requiem and Angel Blue sings Desdemona's 'Ave Maria' from Verdi's Otello as part of A Concert for New York at the Knockdown Center in Queens.
VIDEO: Watch Highlights From Met Opera's A Concert for New York
by Alan Henry
- May 17, 2021
Watch below as Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Justin Austin, and members of the Met Orchestra perform an excerpt from Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up in My Bones as part of A Concert for New York at the Knockdown Center in Queens. May 16, 2021.
VIDEO: Get A First Look At LA BOHEME at The Met Opera
by Alan Henry
- Oct 23, 2019
Three casts of captivating artists bring Puccini's classic tragedy of bohemian friends and lovers to life in Franco Zeffirelli's immortal staging. Tenors Matthew Polenzani, Roberto Alagna, and Joseph Calleja trade off as the exuberant Rodolfo, alongside sopranos Ailyn Pérez, Hei-Kyung Hong, and Maria Agresta as the fragile Mimì. Marco Armiliato and Emmanuel Villaume share conducting duties.
VIDEO: Get A First Look at FALSTAFF at The Met
by Alan Henry
- Feb 21, 2019
Baritone Ambrogio Maestri brings his larger-than-life portrayal of the title role back for the first time since his Met role debut in the 2013-14 season. Robert Carsen's insightful production-which moves the action to postwar England in the 1950s-features an exceptional cast that includes soprano Ailyn Pérez as Alice Ford and soprano Golda Schultz as Nannetta.
VIDEO: Get A First Look At DON GIOVANNI at The Met Opera
by Alan Henry
- Feb 11, 2019
Baritone Peter Mattei and bass-baritone Luca Pisaroni star as opera's most notorious seducer in Mozart's masterpiece of dark comedy. Cornelius Meister makes his Met debut conducting performances that also include sopranos Rachel Willis-Sørensen and Guanqun Yu as Donna Anna, sopranos Federica Lombardi and Susanna Phillips as Donna Elvira, and basses Ildar Abdrazakov and Adam Plachetka as Leporello.