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GP at the Met: Tannhäuser premieres March 13, 2016 at noon (check local schedule). History, myth, and invention come together in Tannhäuser, which had its world premiere in October 1845 at the Court Opera in Dresden,  capital of the Kingdom of Saxony. Richard Wagner (May 22, 1813 ...

Richard Wagner's Tannhäuser comes to Great Performances at the Met for the first time and is conducted by James Levine. The Otto Schenk production gets its first Met revival in more than a decade. Johan Botha makes his Met role debut in the titular role; ...

Aleksandrs Antonenko (Otello) and Željko Lučić (Iago) perform the Act II finale duet in Verdi's Otello, directed by Bartlett Sher at the Met.

Željko Lučić, known for his performances of Verdi operas, plays Otello’s sinister rival Iago in GP at the Met: Otello. This excerpt is from Iago's "Credo" from Act II. The Serbian opera singer was a principal member of the Frankfurt Opera for 10 years through ...

Aleksandrs Antonenko (Otello), Sonya Yoncheva (Desdemona), Željko Lučić (Iago), and ensemble perform the Act III finale from Verdi's Otello, in the Bartlett Sher production at the Met. In a rage over being recalled to Venice, Otello loses control and hurls insults at Desdemona in front ...

Otello is the penultimate creation of its composer, who needed prodding to begin the project.  The great Giuseppe Verdi (October 10, 1813 – January 27, 1901) had gone into retirement after the success of his opera Aida, which premiered December 24, 1871. His publisher tried to persuade him for years to write ...

Tony Award-winning director Bartlett Sher’s acclaimed new Met Opera production is led by conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin with Aleksandrs Antonenko in his first Met performance as Otello, the tormented Moor of Venice, with Sonya Yoncheva in her role debut as his innocent wife, Desdemona. Željko Lu?i? ...

Anna Netrebko (Leonora) and Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Count di Luna) perform the Act IV duet at the final dress rehearsal for Verdi's "Il Trovatore." Leonora offers herself to the count in return for her lover’s life.

Giuseppe Verdi's Il Trovatore (The Troubadour) was the third opera presented at the Metropolitan Opera House on October 26 in 1883, the year the New York City opera house was founded. Il Trovatore had originally premiered in Rome thirty years earlier on January 19, 1853. Verdi based ...