The Metropolitan Opera

Les Contes d’Hoffmann – MET Opera Live in HD at Biografen Kino, LundLes Contes d’Hoffmann – MET Opera Live in HD at Biografen Kino, Lund

Les Contes d’Hoffmann – MET Opera Live in HD at Biografen Kino, Lund

Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann is the most enduring ‘serious’ opera from a composer better known for his operettas and Gina…

5 months ago
La rondine – The Metropolitan Opera Live in HDLa rondine – The Metropolitan Opera Live in HD

La rondine – The Metropolitan Opera Live in HD

Initially commissioned to be a Viennese operetta before receiving the full operatic treatment, Puccini’s bittersweet love story is one of…

10 months ago
Roméo et Juliette – Met Opera Live in HDRoméo et Juliette – Met Opera Live in HD

Roméo et Juliette – Met Opera Live in HD

Bartlett Sher’s production may be rather staid and static in its staging of Gounod’s sumptuous Shakespeare adaptation but this tale…

11 months ago
La Forza del Destino – Met Opera Live in HDLa Forza del Destino – Met Opera Live in HD

La Forza del Destino – Met Opera Live in HD

It has been some thirty years since there was a new production of this opera at the Met and twenty…

12 months ago
Carmen – The Metropolitan OperaCarmen – The Metropolitan Opera

Carmen – The Metropolitan Opera

Carrie Cracknell’s contemporary take aims at reinvigorating this classic with its resetting to present-day America but sadly is mostly firing…

1 year ago
Florencia en el Amazonas – Met Opera Live in HDFlorencia en el Amazonas – Met Opera Live in HD

Florencia en el Amazonas – Met Opera Live in HD

With Marcela Fuentes-Berain’s libretto inspired by the magical realism of Gabriel García Márquez, Mexican composer Daniel Catán’s 1996 opera is…

1 year ago
Don Giovanni – The Metropolitan Opera Live in HDDon Giovanni – The Metropolitan Opera Live in HD

Don Giovanni – The Metropolitan Opera Live in HD

Mozart’s retelling of the Don Juan myth dates from 1787 and its tale of a serial, sexual predator sadly remains…

2 years ago
Der Rosenkavalier – MET Opera Live in HDDer Rosenkavalier – MET Opera Live in HD

Der Rosenkavalier – MET Opera Live in HD

Paula Suozzi’s revival of Robert Carsen’s 2017 production, which moved the setting from the cusp of revolution in the 18th…

2 years ago
Don Carlos – The Metropolitan Opera, New YorkDon Carlos – The Metropolitan Opera, New York

Don Carlos – The Metropolitan Opera, New York

The Met Opera’s original five-act French version of Verdi’s epic opera of doomed love among royalty is in fact an…

3 years ago