David Pittsinger

The last days of the American icon Walt Disney form a powerful and poignant subject for Philip Glass's latest opera, which was filmed at its first performances in Madrid in January 2013.

Le ténor Vittorio Grigolo incarne le rôle-titre de l’opéra fantastique d’Offenbach, offrant un tour de force dans le rôle du poète torturé et malchanceux en amour. Il est rejoint par un trio de grandes dames : Erin Morley chante la poupée mécanique Olympia, Hibla Gerzmava est la fragile Antonia et Christine Rice chante Giulietta, la courtisane vénitienne. La production colorée de Bartlett Sher, vue ici dans sa deuxième présentation Live in HD, met également en vedette Thomas Hampson dans le rôle des sinistres Quatre Méchants et Kate Lindsey dans le rôle de Niklausse, l'ami et muse d'Hoffmann. Yves Abel dirige.

Puccini’s musical thriller of lust, murder, and politics is one of the most dramatically riveting operas in the repertoire. Luc Bondy’s production, with sets by Richard Peduzzi and costumes by Academy Award-winning designer Milena Canonero, opened the Met’s 2009–10 season. Karita Mattila stars as the beautiful and dangerously impulsive singer Floria Tosca. Marcelo Álvarez is her lover, the painter Cavaradossi, a political enemy of the powerful chief of police, Scarpia (George Gagnidze), who wants Tosca for himself.

Star soprano Anna Netrebko scored a triumph in Laurent Pelly’s acclaimed 2012 production, singing the title heroine for the first time at the Met. Manon’s story—from innocent country girl to celebrated courtesan to destitute prisoner—is one of the great tragic tales in literature and music, and this performance brings out all of its colors, as seen through Massenet’s masterful score, from the comedic beginning to the heart-wrenching finale. Piotr Bezcala is des Grieux, Manon’s lover, who decides to become a priest when she leaves him, but ultimately is reunited with her, only to lose her again. Paulo Szot sings Lescaut, and Fabio Luisi conducts the Met Orchestra and Chorus.

After over a century out of the Met’s repertoire, audiences were thrilled to discover just what a sensational evening in the theater Thomas’s Hamlet can be. Simon Keenlyside’s riveting performance as the tortured Prince of Denmark in Patrice Caurier and Moshe Leiser’s starkly brooding production had critics raving that Keenlyside’s superb singing, coupled with his deftly delineated three-dimensional Hamlet, was one of the greatest examples of operatic drama of our time. The cast includes Marlis Petersen as the long suffering Ophélie, who brilliantly shows why her mad scene is so justly famous, along with Jennifer Larmore and James Morris as Gertrude and Claudius.

Pamina, la fille de la Reine de la Nuit, est emprisonnée par le mage Sarastro. La Reine charge Tamino, aidé de Papageno, d’aller à son secours et lui offre pour cela une flûte magique… De nombreuses surprises attendent les deux compères qui ne se doutent pas du double jeu de la maléfique Reine…