ROBERT LEPAGE

A performance by Simon Keenlyside from Shakespeare's "The Tempest" by English composer Thomas Adès. "Great Performances at the Met: The Tempest" airs Sunday, March 17 at 12 pm on PBS (check local listings).

A performance by Isabel Leonard and Alek Shrader from Shakespeare's "The Tempest" by English composer Thomas Adès. Great Performances at the Met: The Tempest airs Sunday, March 17 at 12 pm on PBS (check local listings).

The Tempest, Robert Lepage’s Staging of the English-language Opera Based on Shakespeare’s Final Play, Airs on Great Performances at the Met Sunday, March 17 at 12 noon on PBS (check local listings)

At first glance, after the uninterrupted flow of drama in the three preceding parts of the Ring, the libretto of Götterdämmerung might seem a throwback.

Of all the major characters in the Ring, Siegfried is probably the one who has been most misunderstood.

James Levine and Robert Lepage discuss the opening bars of Wagner's Das Rheingold.

Robert Lepage’s acclaimed new production of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen, will air on Great Performances at the Met, September 11-14 in primetime each night on PBS stations (check local listings), as a major television event.

Radiant mezzo-soprano Susan Graham and dashing Italian tenor Marcello Giordani are unlucky lovers in La Damnation de Faust, Hector Berlioz’s classic take on dancing with the devil, Saturday, February 28 at noon (ET) on Great Performances at the Met (check local listings). Presented by THIRTEEN ...