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overview : This is an effective staging, though the set looks medieval and the costumes are modern. It’s well paced, well played, …

overview : In Benjamin Britten's operatic adaptation of Henry James' masterwork, a naive governess (Helen Field) arrives at a country manor and …

overview : "La Bohème" is one of Giacomo Puccini's most popular and timeless works and the second-most performed opera at New York's …

overview : A dangerous amnesiac escapes from an asylum, hides in the opera house, and is suspected of getting revenge on those …

overview : Robert Lepage’s landmark staging of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen, unveiled over the course of the 2010–11 and 2011–12 seasons, …

overview : Bizet’s rarely heard opera returned to the Met for the first time in a century on New Year’s Eve 2015, …

overview : Spain 1820. It's meal time at the cigar factory. Carmen spends her break in the square. Close by is Don …

overview : Tony Award winner Bartlett Sher’s bold new production probes the psychological underpinnings of Verdi’s dynamic setting of Shakespeare’s great tragedy. …

overview : The life and career of Italian opera singer Farinelli, considered one of the greatest castrato singers of all time.

overview : Audiences went wild for Bartlett Sher’s dynamic production, which found fresh and surprising ways to bring Rossini’s effervescent comedy closer …

overview : It is a rare opera indeed that calls for one soprano diva and no fewer than six tenors. Mary Zimmerman’s …

overview : Stephen Wadsworth’s production of Mussorgsky’s epic masterpiece brilliantly captures the suffering and ambition of the Russian people at a critical …

overview : France, 1792. Chenier is an idealistic poet, in love with the aristocratic Maddalena. While Chenier supports such notions as "liberte, …

overview : O Die Zee is a modern Dutch retelling Homer's Odyssey in the form of a rock opera. It was performed …

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overview : The impulsive and charismatic Don Giovanni travels through Europe seducing women, accompanied by his long-suffering servant Leporello. But when Don …

overview : “Kaufmann is performing the title role for the first time, and it’s hard to imagine him bettered. His striking looks …

overview : Hans Werner Henze’s “The Raft of the Medusa” is directly inspired by Théodore Géricault’s famous painting. The German composer sets …