Paul Groves Movies

Late 19th-century Paris, home to Louise, her traditional working-class parents and her bohemian artist lover Julien. An opera about the tension...

Genre: Music

Cast: Mireille Delunsch

Six-time Grammy Award–winning composer Terence Blanchard brings his first opera to the Met after his Fire Shut Up in My Bones triumphantly...

Genre: Music

Cast: Eric Owens

The incomparable Plácido Domingo began a new chapter in his legendary Met career when he created the role of Emperor Qin in the world premiere...

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Cast: Elizabeth Futral

Live performance at the Metropolitan Opera in 2000.

Genre: Music

Cast: Bryn Terfel

A look at the entire process of creating and developing Patrice Chéreau’s third staging of "In the Solitude of Cotton Fields" by Bernard...

Genre: Music

Cast: Patrice Chéreau

John Eliot Gardiner conducts Gluck’s 1776 French version of “Alceste” at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris....

Genre: Music

Cast: Anne Sofie von Otter

The Queen of the Night enlists a handsome prince named Tamino to rescue her beautiful kidnapped daughter, Princess Pamina. Aided by the lovelorn bird...

Genre: Music

Cast: Christian Gerhaher

Live Paris 2006

Genre: Music

Cast: Heidi Grant Murphy

The three main soloists have voices on a scale that can compete with these flashy production values – White and Kasarova, in particular, sing...

Genre: Music

Cast: Sylvain Cambreling

Live performance of Alban Berg's opera at the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona. Inspired by "Pandora's Box" by Frank Wedekind, Lulu describes the...

Genre: Music

Cast: Patricia Petibon

The celebrated three-act opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart comes to life in this dynamic performance at the world-famous Salzburg Festival. Director...

Genre: Music

Cast: Christine Schäfer

Gluck’s gripping adaptation of the ancient Greek myth is vividly brought to life by a stellar cast in Stephen Wadsworth’s atmospheric...

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Cast: Susan Graham

British director Elijah Moshinsky traveled to Istanbul's Topkapi Palace with a cast of gifted singers and actors to film a lavish production of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Yelda Kodallı

Candide falls in love with the beautiful but materialistic Cunegonde. Her barron father doesn't approve of the affair so Candide wanders, meeting all...

Genre: Music

Cast: Thomas Allen

William Kentridge’s multi-layered production of Berg’s masterpiece stars charismatic soprano Marlis Petersen in the title role—the...

Genre: Music

Cast: Marlis Petersen

Iolanta is a one act lyric opera, sung in Russian, by Tchaikovsky. Performed in the style of a nineteenth-century Italian melodrama, the scenes have...

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Cast: Dominique Blanc

Systematically overturning accepted morals, Elagabalus dresses men as women, and names women to the Senate, favours sinning servants and humiliates...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Franco Fagioli

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...

Genre: Music

Cast: Bernd Weikl

Genre: Music

Cast: Seiji Ozawa

Live Opera performance of Igor Stravinsky's Perséphone. Directed by Peter Sellars

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Cast: Paul Groves