Award-winning filmmaker Susan Froemke looks at the finalists of The Met’s National Council Auditions as they compete in this career-launching contest.

Acclaimed director Luc Bondy's debut, with the Met staging of Puccini’s Tosca starring Karita Mattila, opens the new GP at the Met season.

The production credits for the telecast of the Metropolitan Opera's La Cenerentola.

Natalie Dessay’s “walks the walk” of Vincenzo Bellini’s quintessential character Amina, the woman sleepwalker, in Zimmerman’s production of the 1831 classic.

The cast and credits for GP at the Met's production of Madama Butterfly broadcast in 2009.

Soprano Patricia Racette stars as Cio-Cio-San, the young geisha, in this re-staging of of the late Anthony Minghella's Madama Butterfly.

The credits and cast list for GP at the Met\'s Ordeo ed Euridice.

Stephanie Blythe commands the Met stage as the grieving husband Orfeo in Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice.