GP at the Met: Capriccio - About the Opera
Andrew Davis conducts Richard Strauss’s final opera, a romantic and philosophical battle between words and music featuring Renee Fleming in her first full Met performance as the elegant Countess.

Andrew Davis conducts Richard Strauss’s final opera, a romantic and philosophical battle between words and music featuring Renee Fleming in her first full Met performance as the elegant Countess.
Juan Diego Florez, Diana Damrau, and Joyce DiDonato star in the Met Opera's Comic Hit.
Julia Novikova, Vittorio Grigolo, and Ruggero Raimondi also star with Zubin Mehta conducting the RAI National Symphony Orchestra.
See the most recent production of Lucia di Lammermoor, with French soprano Natalie Dessay in one of her greatest roles as Donizetti’s fragile heroine.
Bill Murray hosts a two hour program of highlights from the marathon event, an 11-hour celebration of the six-string that attracted a sold-out crowd of more than 27,000 music fans to Chicago’s Toyota Park.
Patrick Summers conducts the revival of Gluck’s rarely performed masterpiece, Iphigénie en Tauride, starring Susan Graham, Plácido Domingo and Paul Groves.
Taped at Sarasota’s The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, the program, co-hosted by David Foster, celebrates the release of her first full-length solo album.
Nixon in China stars James Maddalena as Richard Nixon, a role he created at the opera’s world premiere in 1987. With a libretto by American poet Alice Goodman, the opera is based on significant moments during President Nixon’s visit to China in February of 1972.
Carnegie Hall commemorates its 120th anniversary with an all-star gala concert featuring conductor Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic and special guests pianist Emanuel Ax, cellist Yo-Yo Ma, violinist Gil Shaham, and the four-time Tony Award-winning singer and actress Audra McDonald.
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