The Metropolitan Opera Movies

  • 2024
    The Metropolitan Opera: La Rondine

    The Metropolitan Opera: La Rondine

    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...

    The Metropolitan Opera: La Rondine
  • 2009
    Rossini: La Cenerentola

    Rossini: La Cenerentola

    Rossini: La Cenerentola

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    "Irresistible" (Opera News) rising-star mezzo Elina Garanca triumphs as Rossini's Cinderella in this delightful Metropolitan Opera production. "As...

    Rossini: La Cenerentola
  • 2009
    Bellini: La Sonnambula

    Bellini: La Sonnambula

    Bellini: La Sonnambula

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    Just as a young woman is about to marry her sweetheart, she is discovered—by the entire village, to say nothing of her...

    Bellini: La Sonnambula
  • 1987
    Turandot

    Turandot

    Turandot

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    The Franco Zeffirelli production of Puccini's "Turandot", recorded live at the Metropolitan Opera in April, 1987. Éva Marton stars as...

    Turandot
  • 2008
    The Metropolitan Opera – Verdi: Macbeth

    The Metropolitan Opera – Verdi: Macbeth

    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...

    The Metropolitan Opera – Verdi: Macbeth
  • 2008
    Adams: Doctor Atomic

    Adams: Doctor Atomic

    Adams: Doctor Atomic

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    John Adams’s mesmerizing score, in the powerful production of Penny Woolcock, tells the story of one of the pivotal moments in human...

    Adams: Doctor Atomic
  • 2010
    Wagner: Das Rheingold

    Wagner: Das Rheingold

    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...

    Wagner: Das Rheingold
  • 2006
    The Magic Flute

    The Magic Flute

    The Magic Flute

    8.82006HD

    Tamino, a handsome prince, and Papageno, a bird-catcher, are sent by the Queen of Night to rescue her daughter Pamina from captivity under the high...

    The Magic Flute
  • 1979
    Don Pasquale

    Don Pasquale

    Don Pasquale

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    This John Dexter production, designed by Desmond Heeley, was a parting gift to the great American soprano Beverly Sills, who bid farewell to the Met...

    Don Pasquale
  • 2015
    The Metropolitan Opera: The Merry Widow

    The Metropolitan Opera: The Merry Widow

    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,...

    The Metropolitan Opera: The Merry Widow
  • 2015
    Tchaikovsky: Iolanta / Bartók: Bluebeard's Castle

    Tchaikovsky: Iolanta / Bartók: Bluebeard's Castle

    Tchaikovsky: Iolanta / Bartók: Bluebeard's Castle

    52015HD

    Valery Gergiev conducts Mariusz Trelinski’s thrilling new production of these rarely heard one-act operas. Anna Netrebko stars as the blind...

    Tchaikovsky: Iolanta / Bartók: Bluebeard's Castle
  • 2016
    The Metropolitan Opera: L’Amour de Loin

    The Metropolitan Opera: L’Amour de Loin

    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 Metropolitan Opera: L’Amour de Loin
  • 1994
    Arabella

    Arabella

    Arabella

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    Arabella, Op. 79, is a lyric comedy or opera in three acts by Richard Strauss to a German libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, their sixth and last...

    Arabella
  • 1986
    Die Fledermaus

    Die Fledermaus

    Die Fledermaus

    01986HD

    Live performance from the Metropolitan Opera, 31 December 1986.

    Die Fledermaus
  • 2022
    The Metropolitan Opera: Rigoletto

    The Metropolitan Opera: Rigoletto

    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...

    The Metropolitan Opera: Rigoletto
  • 2008
    Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust

    Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust

    Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust

    102008HD

    Radiant mezzo-soprano Susan Graham and dashing Italian tenor Marcello Giordani are unlucky lovers in La Damnation de Faust, Hector Berlioz’s...

    Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust
  • 2025
    The Metropolitan Opera: The Queen of Spades

    The Metropolitan Opera: The Queen of Spades

    The Metropolitan Opera: The Queen of Spades

    02025HD

    Tchaikovsky’s macabre thriller, set against the backdrop of Tsarist Russia, is back in the Met’s atmospheric staging. Soprano Sonya...

    The Metropolitan Opera: The Queen of Spades
  • 2018
    The Metropolitan Opera: La Bohème

    The Metropolitan Opera: La Bohème

    The Metropolitan Opera: La Bohème

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    Puccini’s timeless love story, which includes some of its composer’s most beloved music, has moved generations of opera lovers since its...

    The Metropolitan Opera: La Bohème
  • 1979
    Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny

    Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny

    Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny

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    John Dexter’s brilliant production, James Levine’s masterful conducting of the eclectic score, and a sensational cast come together to...

    Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
  • 2010
    Rossini: Armida

    Rossini: Armida

    Rossini: Armida

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    It is a rare opera indeed that calls for one soprano diva and no fewer than six tenors. Mary Zimmerman’s fanciful production of Rossini’s...

    Rossini: Armida