METROPOLITAN OPERA

The ancient Greek myth of Orpheus, who attempts to harness the power of music to rescue his beloved Eurydice from the Underworld, has inspired composers since opera’s earliest days. With a libretto by Sarah Ruhl adapted from her acclaimed 2003 play, the opera reimagines the ...

Great Performances at the Met Returns with New Season Beginning February 6 on PBS   Season 16 features Metropolitan Opera stars Angel Blue, Isabel Leonard, Lise Davidsen, René Pape, Matthew Polenzani, Sonya Yoncheva, Elīna Garanča, Eric Owens, Nadine Sierra, Javier Camarena, Piotr Beczała, Liudmyla Monastyrska and more.  In Season 16, Great Performances at ...

Bass René Pape, the world’s reigning Boris, reprises his portrayal of the tortured tsar caught between ambition and paranoia. Conductor Sebastian Weigle leads Mussorgsky’s Russian masterwork in its original 1869 version. Stephen Wadsworth’s production captures the hope and suffering of the Russian people as well ...

Recorded December 2020, the legendary bass-baritone Sir Bryn Terfel performs a holiday program accompanied by Jeff Howard on piano and the Welsh traditional folk group Calan from Brecon Cathedral in the singer’s native Wales.

#PBSForTheArts Continues on Great Performances with Two New Classical Music Concerts Starring Composer-Conductor John Williams and Opera Divas Isabel Leonard, Nadine Sierra and Ailyn Pérez This Fall on PBS Features the Boston Symphony Orchestra and The Metropolitan Opera. This fall, Great Performances celebrates the resiliency ...

Experience the music director of the Metropolitan Opera’s meteoric rise to become one of the most acclaimed and sought-after music directors of his generation in this documentary from cinema verité filmmaker Susan Froemke.

Enjoy the talent of Bulgarian soprano Sonya Yoncheva as she performs arias by Verdi, Puccini and more from the Baroque Library in Schussenried Cloister in southwest Germany accompanied by Julien Quentin on piano.

Soprano Diana Damrau and tenor Joseph Calleja perform "Non ti scordar di me" by Ernesto De Curtis and excerpts from Puccini's "Tosca" from the Royal Palace of Caserta.

Mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato, sings Gustav Mahler’s “Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen” and Édith Piaf's “La vie en rose.”

Experience a new performance by the American mezzo-soprano from the art-nouveau Jahrhunderthalle in Bochum, Germany, featuring Baroque works by Handel as well as songs like “La vie en rose” and Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “You’ll Never Walk Alone.”