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1. The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2006– )
Not Rated | 128 min | Musical
Live performances of operas from New York's Metropolitan Opera.
Stars: Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Metropolitan Opera Chorus, Metropolitan Opera Ballet, Renée Fleming
Votes: 172
2. Turandot (1987 TV Movie)
134 min | Drama, Fantasy, Music
Director: Kirk Browning | Stars: James Levine, Éva Marton, Plácido Domingo, Leona Mitchell
Votes: 156
3.
The Metropolitan Opera Presents (1977– )
Episode:
Carmen
(1987)
172 min | Musical
Gypsy Carmen picks soldier Don Jose as her latest conquest, costs him his career, takes up with a toreador while he's in jail, recruits him for the smuggling ring, and foresees her own death.
Director: Brian Large | Stars: James Levine, Agnes Baltsa, Leona Mitchell, José Carreras
Votes: 115
4.
The Metropolitan Opera Presents (1977– )
Episode:
Aida
(1989)
158 min | Musical
Pharaoh's daughter Amneris loves general Radames, but he loves slave Aida. Aida's father leads the Ethiopian army to invade Egypt. When he's captured, he wants Aida to gain military secrets from Radames.
Director: Brian Large | Stars: Aprile Millo, Dolora Zajick, Plácido Domingo, Sherrill Milnes
Votes: 100
5.
The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2006– )
Episode:
Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin
(2007)
Not Rated | 193 min | Musical
Onegin is young, handsome, rich. And bored. After spurning the naive Tatyana's romantic advances, he publicly flirts with his best friend's fiancée merely to amuse himself, but the prank ends in a duel. Some people just don't get it.
Director: Brian Large | Stars: Valery Gergiev, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Beverly Sills, Renée Fleming
Votes: 87
6.
The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2006– )
Episode:
Bizet: Carmen
(2010)
Not Rated | 188 min | Musical
It's a familiar story: Act 1, boy meets girl, goes to jail for her. Act 2, boy is out of jail, girl rewards him with special favors. Act 3, girl is bored already, moving on. Act 4, boy kills girl for ruining his life. We've all been there.
Director: Gary Halvorson | Stars: Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Renée Fleming, Trevor Scheunemann, Barbara Frittoli
Votes: 85
7.
The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2006– )
Episode:
Mozart's The Magic Flute
(2006)
Not Rated | 115 min | Musical
Prince Tamino and Papageno are sent by the Queen of Night to save her daughter Pamina from the clutches of the evil lord Sarastro.
Director: Gary Halvorson | Stars: James Levine, Katie Couric, Matthew Polenzani, Wendy Bryn Harmer
Votes: 68
8. The Metropolitan Opera Presents (1977– )
180 min | Musical
This is the 1977 television recording of the Rise and Fall of Managing by Kurt Weill
Stars: Metropolitan Opera Chorus, James Levine, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Charles Anthony
Votes: 47
9.
The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2006– )
Episode:
Gounod: Faust
(2011)
Not Rated | 233 min | Musical
The oft-told tale of the scientist Faust, who sold his soul to the devil in exchange for an extra 24 years to live, is updated, apparently happening entirely in the confines of Faust's lab, which makes the Act 2 carnival hard to fathom.
Director: Barbara Willis Sweete | Stars: Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Joyce DiDonato, Jonas Kaufmann, René Pape
Votes: 45
10.
The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2006– )
Episode:
Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin
(2013)
Not Rated | Musical
Onegin's friend Lensky introduces him to Tanya, his fiancee's sister but Onegin flirts with his fiancee. Lensky challenges him to a duel; nobody stops them. Later, Onegin tries to seduce ... See full summary »
Director: Gary Halvorson | Stars: Valery Gergiev, Deborah Voigt, Anna Netrebko, Oksana Volkova
Votes: 45
11.
The Metropolitan Opera Presents (1977– )
Episode:
Parsifal
(1993)
265 min | Musical
Director: Brian Large | Stars: James Levine, Waltraud Meier, Siegfried Jerusalem, Bernd Weikl
Votes: 44
12.
The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2006– )
Episode:
Donizetti: La Fille du Régiment
(2008)
Not Rated | 170 min | Musical
Marie, lost as a baby, was found and raised by the local regiment. Tonio loves her, she loves him, but when her aunt recognizes her, it seems they will never be allowed to be together.
Director: Gary Halvorson | Stars: Marco Armiliato, Renée Fleming, Donald Maxwell, Felicity Palmer
Votes: 44
13.
The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2006– )
Episode:
John Adams: Nixon in China
(2011)
Not Rated | 188 min | Musical
US President Richard Nixon, wife Pat, and Henry Kissinger travel to China to visit Chairman and Madame Mao in 1972, normalizing relations between the countries for the first time in 25 years. Both sides wonder if this for the better.
Director: Peter Sellars | Stars: James Maddalena, Janis Kelly, Robert Brubaker, Kathleen Kim
Votes: 44
14.
The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2006– )
Episode:
Lehár: The Merry Widow
(2015)
Not Rated | 162 min | Musical
Director: Gary Halvorson | Stars: Andrew Davis, Joyce DiDonato, Jeffrey Mattsey, Thomas Allen
Votes: 43
15.
The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2006– )
Episode:
Verdi: La Traviata
(2018)
Not Rated | 205 min | Musical
Director: Gary Halvorson | Stars: Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Anita Rachvelishvili, Diana Damrau, Kirstin Chávez
Votes: 41
16.
The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2006– )
Episode:
Dvorák: Rusalka
(2014)
Not Rated | Musical
The original story of the little mermaid. She is in love with a human and makes a deal with a witch to be able to be human. The deal is she has to convince him that she is his love but she has to give up Her voice to become human.
Directors: Barbara Willis Sweete, Otto Schenk | Stars: Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Susan Graham, Dísella Lárusdóttir, Renée Tatum
Votes: 40
17.
The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2006– )
Episode:
Verdi: Macbeth
(2014)
Not Rated | Musical
Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself.
Director: Gary Halvorson | Stars: Fabio Luisi, Anita Rachvelishvili, Zeljko Lucic, René Pape
Votes: 39
18.
The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2006– )
Episode:
Bizet: The Pearl Fishers
(2016)
Not Rated | Musical
Director: Matthew Diamond | Stars: Gianandrea Noseda, Patricia Racette, Mariusz Kwiecien, Matthew Polenzani
Votes: 39
19.
The Metropolitan Opera Presents (1977– )
Episode:
Idomeneo
(1982)
183 min | Musical
Returning home from the Trojan Wars during a storm, Idomeneo, the king of Crete, vows to sacrifice to Neptune (the Greek god Poseidon) the first living creature he meets ashore in return ... See full summary »
Director: Kirk Browning | Stars: Ileana Cotrubas, Frederica von Stade, Loretta Di Franco, Batyah Godfrey Ben-David
Votes: 38
20.
The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2006– )
Episode:
Rossini: Le Comte Ory
(2011)
Not Rated | Musical
The young Count Ory takes advantage of the fact that the village men are off fighting, and breaks into the castle to declare his love to Adele. His sidekick Isolier reveals Ory's plans to her, and the two of them hatch a plan to trick Ory.
Director: Gary Halvorson | Stars: Maurizio Benini, Renée Fleming, Stéphane Degout, Monica Yunus
Votes: 38
21.
The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2006– )
Episode:
Verdi: Rigoletto
(2013)
Not Rated | 198 min | Musical
Set in rat-pack Las Vegas. Duke is Sinatra; Rigoletto is Don Rickles. Rigoletto owns a condo; he holds the elevator for the courtiers. Later on, when he finds a stranger's corpse in his car-trunk, why doesn't he drive her to the hospital?
Director: Matthew Diamond | Stars: Michele Mariotti, Renée Fleming, Piotr Beczala, Alexander Lewis
Votes: 38
22.
The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2006– )
Episode:
Wagner: Parsifal
(2013)
Not Rated | Musical
Many arguments have been made about Wagner's last opera: claims of racism, anti-Semitism, misogyny. The story is simple, really: the Knights who were supposed to guard the Holy Relics managed to lose one; now God wants it back, or else.
Director: Barbara Willis Sweete | Stars: Daniele Gatti, Eric Owens, René Pape, Ryan Speedo Green
Votes: 38
23.
The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2006– )
Episode:
Puccini: La rondine
(2009)
Not Rated | Musical
Magda, mistress to wealthy Rambaldo, wants romance with a younger man. She moves in with Ruggero until his cash runs out.
Director: Brian Large | Stars: Marco Armiliato, Renée Fleming, Monica Yunus, Alyson Cambridge
Votes: 37
24.
The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2006– )
Episode:
Massenet: Thaïs
(2008)
Not Rated | 138 min | Musical
Missionary Athaniel converts the prostitute Thais to Christianity; he even leads her to enter a nunnery. The convent door slams shut: No Men Allowed. Oh no, cries Athaniel, I've fallen in love with her. Too bad, so sad. Meditate on that.
Director: Gary Halvorson | Stars: Jesús López Cobos, Plácido Domingo, Mary Jo Heath, Daniel Clark Smith
Votes: 36
25. The Queen of Spades (1999 TV Movie)
171 min | Drama, Fantasy, Music
Director: Brian Large | Stars: Galina Gorchakova, Plácido Domingo, Elisabeth Söderström, Dmitri Hvorostovsky
Votes: 35
26.
The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2006– )
Episode:
Puccini: Madama Butterfly
(2009)
Not Rated | 173 min | Musical
On shore leave in Japan, Lt. Pinkerton is ready for action and finds it in a wedding broker. Cio-Cio-San naively believes the marriage is real. Wait until the real Mrs. Pinkerton hears about this: there's sure to be a Little Trouble ahead.
Director: Gary Halvorson | Stars: Patrick Summers, Renée Fleming, Marcello Giordani, Greg Fedderly
Votes: 35
27.
The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2006– )
Episode:
Cilea: Adriana Lecouvreur
(2019)
Not Rated | Musical
An actress and a princess vie for the same man; a bouquet of poisoned violets ends the competition.
Director: Gary Halvorson | Stars: Gianandrea Noseda, Matthew Polenzani, Sarah Joy Miller, Ambrogio Maestri
Votes: 35
28.
The Metropolitan Opera Presents (1977– )
Episode:
Tannhäuser
(1982)
190 min | Musical
Tannhauser longs for earthly life, rejects Venus, returns to mortal Elisabeth. He's condemned by the Landgrave for his carnality, and sent to Rome. The Pope predicts forgiveness is as likely as his walking stick is of sprouting new shoots.
Director: Brian Large | Stars: Richard Cassilly, Éva Marton, Tatiana Troyanos, Bernd Weikl
Votes: 33
29.
The Metropolitan Opera Presents (1977– )
Episode:
Carmen
(1997)
Musical
Director: Gary Halvorson | Stars: Christopher Schaldenbrand, Angela Gheorghiu, Plácido Domingo, Jeffrey Wells
Votes: 33
30.
The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2006– )
Episode:
Puccini: Turandot
(2009)
Not Rated | Musical
To win the hand of Princess Turandot, suitors must first answer her three riddles, but an incorrect answer sends the suitor to the executioner. A stranger with no name, who no-one knows, tries. Will he win her hand, or lose his head?
Director: Gary Halvorson | Stars: Andris Nelsons, Patricia Racette, Maria Guleghina, Marina Poplavskaya
Votes: 33
31.
The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2006– )
Episode:
Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro
(2014)
Not Rated | 216 min | Musical
Director: Gary Halvorson | Stars: James Levine, Renée Fleming, Ildar Abdrazakov, Marlis Petersen
Votes: 33
32.
The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2006– )
Episode:
Donizetti: L'Elisir d'Amore
(2018)
Not Rated | Musical
Director: Matthew Diamond | Stars: Domingo Hindoyan, Susanna Phillips, Ashley Emerson, Matthew Polenzani
Votes: 33
33.
The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2006– )
Episode:
Verdi: Aida
(2018)
Not Rated | 225 min | Musical
Director: Gary Halvorson | Stars: Nicola Luisotti, Isabel Leonard, Dmitry Belosselskiy, Aleksandrs Antonenko
Votes: 33
34.
The Metropolitan Opera Presents (1977– )
Episode:
Les Troyens
(1983)
250 min | Musical
Director: Brian Large | Stars: Tatiana Troyanos, Jessye Norman, Plácido Domingo, Allan Monk
Votes: 32
35.
The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2006– )
Episode:
The First Emperor
(2007)
Not Rated | 205 min | Musical
To unite the lands he has conquered, the First Emperor of China, believes that a national anthem is needed. He hires a childhood friend to compose it for him, not realizing that his friend does not share the Emperor's aspirations.
Director: Brian Large | Stars: Dun Tan, Ziyi Zhang, Beverly Sills, Hsing-Kuo Wu
Votes: 32
36.
The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2006– )
Episode:
Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore
(2012)
Not Rated | Musical
Country bumpkin Nemorino is desperately in love with Adina, but she barely gives him the time of day. She seems to be smitten with the handsome braggart, Captain Belcore. Perhaps Dr. Dulcamara can spare a magic cure to save the day.
Director: Gary Halvorson | Stars: Maurizio Benini, Deborah Voigt, Anne-Carolyn Bird, Matthew Polenzani
Votes: 32
37.
The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2006– )
Episode:
Puccini: Turandot
(2019)
Not Rated | Musical
Director: Gary Halvorson | Stars: Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Angel Blue, Christine Goerke, Yusif Eyvazof
Votes: 31
38.
The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2006– )
Episode:
Verdi: Don Carlo
(2010)
Not Rated | 234 min | Musical
Family jealousy, threat of rebellion, political back-stabbing and the Inquisition weigh heavy on the court of King Phillip II. The tension finally ignites at the King's coronation, where a number of heretics are to be burnt at the stake.
Director: Gary Halvorson | Stars: Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Deborah Voigt, Roberto Alagna, Layla Claire
Votes: 31
39.
The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2006– )
Episode:
Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor
(2011)
Not Rated | 180 min | Musical
A reprise of 2009's production with cast changes, including Natalie Dessay and Joseph Calleja. The famous Mad Scene is orchestrated with a glass harmonica per Donizetti's original score, and not a flute, which is more commonly used today.
Director: Barbara Willis Sweete | Stars: Patrick Summers, Renée Fleming, Mary Jo Heath, Philip Webb
Votes: 31
40.
The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2006– )
Episode:
Donizetti: Maria Stuarda
(2013)
Not Rated | 161 min | Musical
Accusations and hostilities are hurled back and forth between Mary, Queen of Scots, and Elizabeth.
Director: Gary Halvorson | Stars: Maurizio Benini, Deborah Voigt, Elza van den Heever, Matthew Rose
Votes: 31
41.
The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2006– )
Episode:
Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana/Leoncavallo: Pagliacci
(2015)
Not Rated | Musical
Director: Gary Halvorson | Stars: Fabio Luisi, Susan Graham, Marcelo Álvarez, Eva-Maria Westbroek
Votes: 30
42.
The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2006– )
Episode:
Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin
(2017)
Not Rated | 156 min | Musical
Director: Gary Halvorson | Stars: Anna Netrebko, Robin Ticciati, Renée Fleming, Elena Maximova
Votes: 30
43.
The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2006– )
Episode:
R. Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier
(2017)
Not Rated | Musical
Director: Gary Halvorson | Stars: Sebastian Weigle, Matthew Polenzani, Elina Garanca, Renée Fleming
Votes: 30
44.
The Metropolitan Opera Presents (1977– )
Episode:
Hansel and Gretel
(1982)
104 min | Musical
A live Metropolitan Opera Christmas Day broadcast of Humperdinck's opera.
Director: Kirk Browning | Stars: Frederica von Stade, Judith Blegen, Jean Kraft, Michael Devlin
Votes: 29
45.
The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2006– )
Episode:
Rossini: La Cenerentola
(2009)
Not Rated | Musical
A loose adaptation of the Cinderella tale without the magic.
Director: Gary Halvorson | Stars: Rachelle Durkin, Patricia Risley, Elina Garanca, John Relyea
Votes: 29
46.
The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2006– )
Episode:
Massenet: Cendrillon
(2018)
Not Rated | Musical
Director: Gary Halvorson | Stars: Bertrand de Billy, Ailyn Pérez, Laurent Naouri, Stephanie Blythe
Votes: 29
47.
The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2006– )
Episode:
Mozart: Don Giovanni
(2011)
Not Rated | Musical
The nobleman Don Giovanni has apparently lost all his manners: not only does he rape the Commander's daughter and murder the old man; later on he invites his statue to dinner. It's completely inappropriate, and there will be Hell to pay.
Director: Barbara Willis Sweete | Stars: Fabio Luisi, Renée Fleming, Luca Pisaroni, Marina Rebeka
Votes: 28
48.
The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2006– )
Episode:
Thomas: Hamlet
(2010)
Not Rated | Musical
French composer Ambroise Thomas sticks close to Shakespeare's basic plot, with an added Mad Scene for Ophelia. Simon Keenlyside is the brooding Prince of Denmark, for whom the play's the thing in which to catch the conscience of the king.
Director: Brian Large | Stars: Louis Langrée, Renée Fleming, James Morris, Jennifer Larmore
Votes: 27
49.
The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2006– )
Episode:
The Enchanted Island, a Baroque pastiche
(2012)
Not Rated | Musical
A loose adaptation of Shakespeare's Tempest and Twelfth Night with some of the most beautiful pieces by baroque composers such as Haendel and Vivaldi.
Director: Barbara Willis Sweete | Stars: William Christie, Deborah Voigt, David Daniels, Danielle de Niese
Votes: 27
50.
The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2006– )
Episode:
Massenet: Manon
(2012)
Not Rated | Musical
Naive Manon is seduced by Chevalier Des Grieux and she runs away with him to avoid being sent to the convent. Gradually she learns to use her beauty to her advantage in the world of men. In... See full summary »
Director: Gary Halvorson | Stars: Fabio Luisi, Deborah Voigt, Christophe Mortagne, Bradley Garvin
Votes: 27