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.

Watch the full filmic adaptation of the opera starring Placido Domingo.

Vittorio Grigolo as the womanizing Duke of Mantua sings the classic operatic canzone.

Juan Diego Florez, Diana Damrau, and Joyce DiDonato star in the Met Opera's Comic Hit.

Watch highlights from the songs performed for her debut concert.

Joseph Calleja as Edgardo and Natalie Dessay as Lucia in a scene from Act 1 of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor sing a duet in the Metropolitan Opera's production.

Natalie Dessay sings "Spargi d'amaro pianto" from Act 3 of the Metropolitan Opera's production of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor.

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.

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.