GP at the Met: Don Giovanni - About the Opera
Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi leads his first Met performances of Mozart’s Don Giovanni in a new production directed by Tony Award winner Michael Grandage in his Met debut.

Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi leads his first Met performances of Mozart’s Don Giovanni in a new production directed by Tony Award winner Michael Grandage in his Met debut.
Marco Armiliato conducts the acclaimed new production by David McVicar.
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.
Natalie Dessay sings "Spargi d'amaro pianto" from Act 3 of the Metropolitan Opera's production of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor.
Watch an excerpt of the ballet choreographed by Mark Morris for the Metropolitan Opera.
Richard Nixon (James Maddalena) sings the aria "News has a kind of mystery" from Act 1, Scene 1 of the Metropolitan Opera premiere of John Adams's Nixon in China, directed by Peter Sellars and conducted by the composer.
Patrick Summers conducts the revival of Gluck’s rarely performed masterpiece, Iphigénie en Tauride, starring Susan Graham, Plácido Domingo and Paul Groves.
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.
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.
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