Metropolitan Opera : February 2012
Verdi's Ernani
Saturday, February 25, 2012
Verdi's stirring early opera features an energetic score that requires four principals boasting magnificent vocal beauty and technical prowess.
Rossini's The Barber of Seville
Saturday, February 18, 2012
This week's broadcast from the Met features Gioacchino Rossini's comic masterpiece Il Barbiere di Seviglia (The Barber of Seville).
Wagner's Götterdämmerung
Saturday, February 11, 2012
The Met's new production of the Ring Cycle comes to its dramatic conclusion today at 12 pm, with Twilight of the Gods, the six-hour epic that features one of the most dramatic endings in all of opera.
Donizetti's Anna Bolena
Saturday, February 04, 2012
Russian soprano Anna Netrebko plays the role of second-wife-gone-mad in Anna Bolena today at 12 pm. Donizetti’s career-making opera depicts the ugly fate of Henry the VIII’s second wife Queen Anne Boleyn.
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