Most fairy tales—while charming on the outside—resonate long past bedtime with darker underpinnings. "Hansel and Gretel" does just that.

Patrick Summers conducts Sendro Sequi's production of "I Puritani," set during the English civil war in the 1640s.

Giacomo Puccini's "Il Trittico" in a production by Jack O'Brien and James Levine.

Marcelo Álvarez, Sondra Radvanovsky, Dolora Zajick, and Dmitri Hvorostovsky reprise their performances in David McVicar’s lauded production.

Patrick Summers conducts the revival of Gluck’s rarely performed masterpiece, Iphigénie en Tauride, starring Susan Graham, Plácido Domingo and Paul Groves.

GP pays tribute to the life of Luciano Pavarotti with an encore performance of one of his most treasured roles, Nemorino in Donizetti's "L'Elisir D'Amore."

Franco Zeffirelli’s timeless interpretation of the Puccini favorite has been delighting audiences at the Met for more than 20 years.

Mezzo-soprano Susan Graham and tenor Marcello Giordani are unlucky lovers in "La Damnation de Faust," Hector Berlioz’s classic take on dancing with the devil.

Deborah Voigt sings the title role of Minnie in Giancarlo Del Monaco’s 1991 production, with Marcello Giordani as Dick Johnson (the disguised bandit Ramerrez) and Lucio Gallo as the villainous sheriff Jack Rance. San Francisco Opera Music Director Nicola Luisotti conducts the work.

Join GREAT PERFORMANCES at the Met for one of Donizetti’s most cherished -- and perhaps one of the most vocally challenging -- operas.