John Conklin Trailers
Rossini: Semiramide TrailerI Lombardi - The Met TrailerThe Ghosts of Versailles Trailer
Rossini: Semiramide TrailerI Lombardi - The Met TrailerThe Ghosts of Versailles Trailer
Total trailers found: 3
21 December 1993
James Levine’s love for this seldom-heard score infuses every measure of Verdi’s music. Superstar Luciano Pavarotti heads the cast as the Muslim warrior prince Oronte who converts to Christianity out of love for the Italian Giselda (Lauren Flanigan)—before dying of the wounds he received in battling the Crusaders.
10 March 2018
A rarely performed bel canto gem, Rossini’s Semiramide returned to the Met for the first time in nearly 25 years during the 2017–18 season.
10 January 1992
What happened to Figaro and his friends after the events told in Rossini’s and Mozart’s operas? One possible sequel is told in John Corigliano’s “grand opera buffa” The Ghosts of Versailles—an uproariously funny and deeply moving work inspired by Beaumarchais’s third Figaro play, La Mère Coupable, and commissioned by the Met to celebrate its 100th anniversary.