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  • Met Opera Encore: L’Amour de Loin (Broadcast Live in HD)

    One
    of the most highly praised operas of recent years, which had its premiere at
    the Salzburg Festival in 2000, Kaija Saariaho’s yearning medieval romance
    L’Amour de Loin (“Love From Afar”), has its Met premiere this season. The
    production is by Robert Lepage, co-produced with L’Opéra de Québec, where it
    premiered to acclaim last summer, in collaboration with Ex Machina. Debuting
    Finnish conductor Susanna Mälkki leads the performance, which stars Susanna
    Phillips as Clémence, Eric Owens as Jaufré, and Tamara Mumford as the Pilgrim
    who carries messages of love between them

    Run Time: 3:00

  • Met Opera: Nabucco (Broadcast Live in HD)

    Met Music
    Director James Levine conducts Verdi’s early drama of Ancient Babylon, Nabucco,
    with Plácido Domingo adding a new role to his repertory as the title character.
    Liudmyla Monastyrska sings the tour-de-force role of Abigaille, Nabucco’s
    willful daughter, with Jamie Barton as Fenena, Russell Thomas as Ismaele, and
    Dmitri Belosselskiy as the prophet Zaccaria, the role of his 2011 Met debut.

    Run Time: 3:05

    Encore: Sunday, January 29,
    2017 at 1 pm

  • Met Opera Encore: Nabucco (Broadcast Live in HD)

    Met Music
    Director James Levine conducts Verdi’s early drama of Ancient Babylon, Nabucco,
    with Plácido Domingo adding a new role to his repertory as the title character.
    Liudmyla Monastyrska sings the tour-de-force role of Abigaille, Nabucco’s
    willful daughter, with Jamie Barton as Fenena, Russell Thomas as Ismaele, and
    Dmitri Belosselskiy as the prophet Zaccaria, the role of his 2011 Met debut.
     

    Run Time: 3:05

  • Met Opera: Roméo et Juliette (Broadcast Live in HD)

    The
    electrifying team of Vittorio Grigolo and Diana Damrau reunites for a new
    production of Gounod’s opera based on the Shakespeare play. Damrau makes her
    role debut as Juliette in Bartlett Sher’s new production, conducted by
    Gianandrea Noseda. Elliot Madore sings Mercutio and Mikhail Petrenko sings
    Frère Laurent. Sher’s staging is a La Scala production, initially presented by
    the Salzburg Festival, where it premiered in 2008.
     

    Run time: 3:30

    Encore: Sunday, February 12,
    2017 at 1 pm

  • Met Opera Encore: Roméo et Juliette (Broadcast Live in HD)

    The
    electrifying team of Vittorio Grigolo and Diana Damrau reunites for a new
    production of Gounod’s opera based on the Shakespeare play. Damrau makes her
    role debut as Juliette in Bartlett Sher’s new production, conducted by
    Gianandrea Noseda. Elliot Madore sings Mercutio and Mikhail Petrenko sings
    Frère Laurent. Sher’s staging is a La Scala production, initially presented by
    the Salzburg Festival, where it premiered in 2008.
     

    Run time: 3:30

  • Met Opera: Rusalka (Broadcast Live in HD)

    Kristine
    Opolais stars in a new production of the opera that first won her international
    acclaim, Dvořák’s fairy-tale opera about the tragic water nymph Rusalka. Sir
    Mark Elder conducts Mary Zimmerman’s new staging, which also stars Brandon
    Jovanovich as the human prince who captures Rusalka’s heart; Katarina Dalayman
    as Rusalka’s rival, the Foreign Princess; Eric Owens as the Water Sprite,
    Rusalka’s father; and Jamie Barton as the duplicitous witch Ježibaba.

     

    Run Time: 4:05

      

    Encore: Sunday, March 5,
    2017 at 1 pm
     

  • Met Opera Encore: Rusalka (Broadcast Live in HD)

    Kristine
    Opolais stars in a new production of the opera that first won her international
    acclaim, Dvořák’s fairy-tale opera about the tragic water nymph Rusalka. Sir
    Mark Elder conducts Mary Zimmerman’s new staging, which also stars Brandon
    Jovanovich as the human prince who captures Rusalka’s heart; Katarina Dalayman
    as Rusalka’s rival, the Foreign Princess; Eric Owens as the Water Sprite,
    Rusalka’s father; and Jamie Barton as the duplicitous witch Ježibaba.
     

    Run Time: 4:05

  • Met Opera: La Traviata (Broadcast Live in HD)

    Sonya Yoncheva
    brings her acclaimed interpretation of the doomed courtesan Violetta Valéry to
    Live in HD audiences for the first time, opposite rising American tenor Michael
    Fabiano as her lover, Alfredo. Thomas Hampson sings one of his most acclaimed
    Met roles as Giorgio Germont, Alfredo’s disapproving father, in a revival of
    Willy Decker’s staging conducted by San Francisco Opera Music Director Nicola
    Luisotti.
     

     Run Time: 2:55

     Encore: Sunday, March 19,
    2017 at 1 pm

  • Met Opera Encore: La Traviata (Broadcast Live in HD)

    Sonya Yoncheva brings her acclaimed interpretation of the doomed courtesan Violetta Valéry to Live in HD audiences for the first time, opposite rising American tenor Michael Fabiano as her lover, Alfredo. Thomas Hampson sings one of his most acclaimed Met roles as Giorgio Germont, Alfredo’s disapproving father, in a revival of Willy Decker’s staging conducted by San Francisco Opera Music Director Nicola Luisotti.

    Run Time: 2:55

  • Met Opera: Idomeneo (Broadcast Live in HD)

    James Levine
    conducts a rare Met revival of Mozart’s Idomeneo, set in the aftermath of the
    Trojan War. Jean-Pierre Ponnelle’s classic production, which has its first Met
    revival in over a decade this season, stars Matthew Polenzani in the title
    role. The cast also includes Elza van den Heever as Elettra, Nadine Sierra as
    Ilia, Alice Coote as Idamante, and Alan Opie as Arbace.

    Run Time: 4:20

    Encore: Sunday, April 9,
    2017 at 1 pm