The Metropolitan Opera Movies
- 2024
The Metropolitan Opera: La Rondine
The Metropolitan Opera: La Rondine72024HD
Puccini’s bittersweet love story returns to cinemas, with soprano Angel Blue starring as the French courtesan Magda, opposite tenor Jonathan...
- 2009
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...
- 2009
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...
- 1987
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...
- 2008
The Metropolitan Opera – Verdi: Macbeth
The Metropolitan Opera – Verdi: Macbeth02008HD
Verdi’s admiration for Shakespeare led to such masterpieces as Othello and Falstaff, and if the earlier Macbeth isn’t on their exalted...
- 2008
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...
- 2010
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...
- 2006
The Magic Flute
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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...
- 1979
Don Pasquale
Don Pasquale01979HD
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...
- 2015
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,...
- 2015
Tchaikovsky: Iolanta / Bartók: Bluebeard's Castle
Tchaikovsky: Iolanta / Bartók: Bluebeard's Castle52015HD
Valery Gergiev conducts Mariusz Trelinski’s thrilling new production of these rarely heard one-act operas. Anna Netrebko stars as the blind...
- 2016
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...
- 1994
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...
- 1986
Die Fledermaus
Die Fledermaus01986HD
Live performance from the Metropolitan Opera, 31 December 1986.
- 2022
The Metropolitan Opera: Rigoletto
The Metropolitan Opera: Rigoletto72022HD
One of opera’s grimmest tragedies received a powerful new production during the 2021–22 season when director Bartlett Sher unveiled his...
- 2008
Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust
Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust102008HD
Radiant mezzo-soprano Susan Graham and dashing Italian tenor Marcello Giordani are unlucky lovers in La Damnation de Faust, Hector Berlioz’s...
- 2025
The Metropolitan Opera: The Queen of Spades
The Metropolitan Opera: The Queen of Spades02025HD
Tchaikovsky’s macabre thriller, set against the backdrop of Tsarist Russia, is back in the Met’s atmospheric staging. Soprano Sonya...
- 2018
The Metropolitan Opera: La Bohème
The Metropolitan Opera: La Bohème92018HD
Puccini’s timeless love story, which includes some of its composer’s most beloved music, has moved generations of opera lovers since its...
- 1979
Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny01979HD
John Dexter’s brilliant production, James Levine’s masterful conducting of the eclectic score, and a sensational cast come together to...
- 2010
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...