Initially commissioned to be a Viennese operetta before receiving the full operatic treatment, Puccini’s bittersweet love story is one of…
Bartlett Sher’s production may be rather staid and static in its staging of Gounod’s sumptuous Shakespeare adaptation but this tale…
It has been some thirty years since there was a new production of this opera at the Met and twenty…
Carrie Cracknell’s contemporary take aims at reinvigorating this classic with its resetting to present-day America but sadly is mostly firing…
With Marcela Fuentes-Berain’s libretto inspired by the magical realism of Gabriel García Márquez, Mexican composer Daniel Catán’s 1996 opera is…
Mozart’s retelling of the Don Juan myth dates from 1787 and its tale of a serial, sexual predator sadly remains…
Paula Suozzi’s revival of Robert Carsen’s 2017 production, which moved the setting from the cusp of revolution in the 18th…
The Met Opera’s original five-act French version of Verdi’s epic opera of doomed love among royalty is in fact an…