1929-07-15 (96 years old)
Elijah Moshinsky's production of Saint-Saëns's "Samson et Dalila", recorded live at the Metropolitan...
Verdi’s monumental score is fully the equal of Shakespeare’s famous tragedy—and both demand great ac...
Franco Zeffirelli's magnificient staging of Puccini's final opera - a fairy tale set in a mythical C...
Princess Fedora, who is to marry the Count the following day, arrives and sings of her love for him,...
James Morris leads an all-star cast including Karita Mattila, Ben Heppner, Thomas Allen and René Pap...
The opera's dramatic structure frames and enhances the characters. Scenes of magnificence regularly ...
Live from the Metropolitan Opera, 14 February 1980. This version takes place in Boston rather than S...
Verdi's opera performed by the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, conducted by James Levine....
Opera royalty Luciano Pavarotti brings dignity and power to the title role in this 1982 production. ...
As renowned for its harmonious overture as for its romantic storybook characters, this three-act mas...
Giancarlo Del Monaco’s atmospheric production brings to colorful life a 19th-century mining camp dur...
Jessye Norman is a regal Ariadne, the mythological Greek heroine in this opera-within-an-opera, oppo...
Wagner’s Romantic opera demands singing actors who can truly inhabit their parts, and that’s just wh...
This evocative production by Giancarlo Del Monaco sumptuously captures the look and feel of 14th cen...
Verdi's early masterpiece is based on a Victor Hugo play with a complicated plot concerning a young ...
Puccini's Il Tabarro & Leoncavallo's Pagliacci; Pavarotti and Domingo star in MET 1994-1995 seas...
Giuseppe Verdi's opera of religion, revenge and redemption gets the star treatment in this 1993 Metr...
An Australian woman searches for her soldier brother in Cambodia during the civil breakdown from whi...
