HANDEL

Agrippina (Joyce DiDonato) pleads with the Gods for Nero to take the throne.

Experience Handel’s black comedy of intrigue and impropriety in this production from David McVicar set in the present. Joyce DiDonato stars as the cunning title character with Harry Bicket at the baton.

Scott heads to Naples for a lesson in pizza making, and a brilliant opera performance from a master chef.

Before becoming the most famous composer of his time, Handel gained a lifetime of experience in Italy. Welcomed by wealthy patrons, he traveled with the Scarlatti family and learned from Corelli and the masters of the Italian Style. Yoo returns to Italy to follow in ...

Men slap one another in slapstick fashion in a part nicknamed "The Stupid Men's Dance" in choreographer Mark Morris's signature work L’Allegro, Il Penseroso ed il Moderato. The singing is an air for tenor, representing a joyful character, "L'Allegro." The libretto, based on John Milton's ...

See excerpts from Mark Morris’s signature work, L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, filmed at his group's engagement at the Teatro Real in Madrid, Spain, in July 2014. The three sections seen here are Populous Cities from Act II; The Hunt, a playful scene from ...

Natalie Dessay (Cleopatra) performs "Se pietà di me non senti" from Act II of Handel's opera Giulio Cesare which airs on Great Performances at the Met on Sunday, September 1 at 12 p.m. on PBS (check local listings).

Natalie Dessay (Cleopatra) performs "Non disperar" from Act I of Handel's opera Giulio Cesare, which airs on Great Performances at the Met on Sunday, September 1 at 12 pm on PBS (check local listings).

David Daniels (Caesar) performs "Al lampo dell'arm" from Handel's opera Giulio Cesare which airs on Great Performances at the Met, Sunday, September 1 at 12 p.m. on PBS (check local listings).

David Daniels and Natalie Dessay star in David McVicar‘s innovative production of Handel’s most popular opera.