Movies: MET Orchestra

  • 2012
    The Enchanted Island, a Baroque pastiche

    The Enchanted Island, a Baroque pastiche (2012)

    The Enchanted Island, a Baroque pastiche

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    A contemporary take on the 17th-century genre of the pastiche, this delightful Baroque fantasy brings together some of the greatest arias and ensembles by Handel, Vivaldi, Rameau, Purcell, and other composers with a new English libretto by Jeremy Sam...

    The Enchanted Island, a Baroque pastiche
  • 2009
    Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice

    Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice (2009)

    Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice

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    Director and choreographer Mark Morris’s production of Gluck’s masterpiece updates the immortal story from its ancient Greek roots to the timeless present, where, he says, “the union of chorus and dancers feels inevitable and inseparable.” With costu...

    Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice
  • 1993
    Falstaff

    Falstaff (1993)

    Falstaff

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    It is to composer and librettist Arrigo Boito and his constant pestering of the octogenarian Verdi that there remained within him one last great comedy fighting to get out that we owe this absolute miracle of an opera. Produced in 1893 as Verdi turne...

    Falstaff
  • 1993
    Richard Wagner: Parsifal

    Richard Wagner: Parsifal (1993)

    Richard Wagner: Parsifal

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    The Met production easily has the most beautiful staging, designed by Otto Schenck, who also produced the fabulous set for the Met's previous Ring cycle. Kurt Moll is a wonderful Gurnemanz, but compared to his studio recording under Karajan a decade ...

    Richard Wagner: Parsifal
  • 2009
    La Sonnambula

    La Sonnambula (2009)

    La Sonnambula

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    Just as a young woman is about to marry her sweetheart, she is discovered—by the entire village, to say nothing of her fiancé—asleep in the bedroom of a stranger. It takes the young man two acts to figure out that sleepwalking is to blame, and everyt...

    La Sonnambula
  • 2016
    The Metropolitan Opera: Tristan und Isolde

    The Metropolitan Opera: Tristan und Isolde (2016)

    The Metropolitan Opera: Tristan und Isolde

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    Met audiences were fascinated by Mariusz Treliński’s gripping, visionary production of Wagner’s epic opera. In the daunting title roles of the doomed lovers, Nina Stemme and Stuart Skelton are passionate, overwhelming, and heartbreaking as they battl...

    The Metropolitan Opera: Tristan und Isolde
  • 1986
    Lohengrin

    Lohengrin (1986)

    Lohengrin

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    Wagner’s Romantic opera demands singing actors who can truly inhabit their parts, and that’s just what we have here. Is it possible for a Knight of the Holy Grail to look more enticing than Peter Hofmann? No wonder Elsa (Eva Marton) falls in love at ...

    Lohengrin
  • 1985
    Le Nozze di Figaro - The Met

    Le Nozze di Figaro - The Met (1985)

    Le Nozze di Figaro - The Met

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    From the "James Levine: Celebrating 40 Years at the Met" DVD box set. Jean-Pierre Ponnelle’s landmark production of Mozart’s most human comedy provides the perfect setting for this superb cast under James Levine’s ebullient leadership. The philanderi...

    Le Nozze di Figaro - The Met
  • 2018
    The Metropolitan Opera: Semiramide

    The Metropolitan Opera: Semiramide (2018)

    The Metropolitan Opera: Semiramide

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    Against the backdrop of the Hanging Gardens, Semiramide, Queen of Babylon, defies bad omens and supernatural threats in her quest to find a worthy successor to her late husband. But she harbours more than one dark secret, and whoever gains the throne...

    The Metropolitan Opera: Semiramide