Don Giovanni, séducteur et manipulateur, multiplie les conquêtes jusqu'au jour où le fantôme du Commandeur (que Don Giovanni a tué) revient pour se venger.
A Mantoue et dans ses environs, au XVIème siècle. Rigoletto, bouffon du Duc de Mantoue, séducteur dépravé, protège secrètement sa fille Gilda à l’abri des regards et des dangers. Aussi la malédiction du Comte Monterone à son égard terrifie-t-elle Rigoletto, dont le costume de bouffon de cour cache un père aimant et protecteur. Séduite par le Duc de Mantoue, puis enlevée par les courtisans qui la mènent jusqu’à la chambre de leur maître, Gilda s’enflamme pour son amant volage, son premier amour. Rigoletto s’estime déshonoré et entreprend de se venger du Duc, qui court se gaver d’autres femmes sitôt Gilda séduite : le bouffon engage le spadassin Sparafucile pour qu’il tue le Duc en pleine nuit. Mais Gilda, éprise jusqu’au bout de l’homme qui l’a conquise, se glisse secrètement à sa place au moment où l’assassin doit frapper, et tombe sous ses coups : c’est le corps de sa fille que Rigoletto récupère, effondré : c’est là l’ultime volet de la malédiction de Monterone.
In the spotlight of global media coverage, the first transgender woman ever to perform as Don Giovanni in a professional opera, makes her historic debut in one of the reddest states in the U.S.
The Prince, Don Ramiro (who has changed places with his valet, Dandini), meets Cenerentola and they are instantly attracted to each other. When the Philosopher, Alidoro, later takes Cenerentola (dressed in magnificent clothing) to the palace, Dandini (still posing as the prince) tries to talk of love to her, but Cenerentola rejects him, saying that she is in love with his 'valet'. Ramiro, who has overheard this comment, is overjoyed, and immediately proposes to her, but Cenerentola says that he must first seek her out and then, if he still felt the same way, she would marry him. She gives him one of a matching pairs of bracelets, telling him to look for its companion on her right arm (she then leaves the palace). Ramiro ends the masquerade, and he and Dandini resume their true identities. The Prince then sets out on his quest - little realising that destiny, in the form of a violent thunderstorm, is about to take a hand in the affair.
Filmed production of Bizet’s Carmen at Earls Court in London, June 1989.
This opera was filmed live at La Scala in 1992. The all-star cast includes Luciano Pavarotti, Samuel Ramey, aolo Coni, Daniela Dessi, Luciana d'Intio, and Alexander Anismov. Riccardo Muti conducts.
A meditation on the female body as a source of both power and pain that focuses on the tragic figure of renowned American-Greek opera singer Maria Callas (1923-77), whose stunning soprano voice captivated audiences around the world in the mid-20th century while her life was wracked by scandal and personal suffering.
Director Carrie Cracknell makes her Met debut, reinvigorating the classic story with a staging that moves the action to the modern day, in a contemporary American industrial town.
The innocent Candide discovers that human beings aren't all they are cracked up to be and ultimately focuses on building his own life on his own terms.
Le dernier opéra de Puccini est un spectacle grandiose rempli de couleurs vives, de danses et de drames dans une mise en scène classique d’Andrei Serban.
The heroic Koroghlu is a poor youngster who leads a peasants' revolt against the tyrannic Khan.
Paying a rare visit to her estate, a countess clashes with the man she hired to manage it.
Clara is given an enchanted Nutcracker doll on Christmas Eve. As midnight strikes, she creeps downstairs to find a magical adventure awaiting her and her Nutcracker. The magician Drosselmeyer transforms the drawing room into a battle between mice and toy soldiers. During the battle, Clara saves the Nutcracker’s life – so breaking a magical spell that turned him from a boy to a toy – and the Mouse King is defeated. In celebration, Drosselmeyer sweeps Clara and the Nutcracker off to the Kingdom of Sweets, where they meet the Sugar Plum Fairy and take part in a wonderful display of dances. The next morning, Clara’s adventures seem to have been more than just a dream.
The story follows Vivian's life from young girl through two marriages, divorce, liberation and class trip, to a baglady.
Offenbach’s mockery of bourgeois ideals, the sublimity of music and the institution of marriage ensures that the moralistic sermonizing of ‘Public Opinion’ falls on deaf ears. The mysterious figure of John Styx tells the story of behind-the-times Orpheus and his hacked-off Eurydice, of gods and goddesses seeking diversion, jaded with humdrum life in Olympus. He tells of the rebellion in the pantheon, which Jupiter adeptly averts by promising an amusement for his entourage. Burning with curiosity to see the beauteous captive and the contest between Jupiter and Pluto for Eurydice’s favour, the illustrious company embarks on an infernal ride to the underworld that culminates in what is surely the most wellknown can-can in the history of music. And what of Eurydice? She ends up putting a spoke in everyone’s wheel…
A filmed stage production of the story of Pelle Svanslös, the cat who lost his tail as a kitten, and his interactions with all the other cats in the neighbourhood.
The Queen of the Night enlists a handsome prince named Tamino to rescue her beautiful kidnapped daughter, Princess Pamina. Aided by the lovelorn bird hunter Papageno and a magical flute that holds the power to change the hearts of men, young Tamino embarks on a quest for true love, leading to the evil Sarastro's temple where Pamina is held captive.
Inspired by Carl Maria von Weber's Der Freischütz, the film opera Hunter's Bride traces the romantic rivalry between two veterans of the Napoleonic Wars who each vie for the heart of the same woman.
