John Relyea Trailers

Poulenc's The Human Voice / Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle Trailer (2018)

01 June 2018

Running through Bartók’s disenchanted tale, whose haunting music was initially condemned as unplayable, and the expression of despair in Poulenc’s monologue, the director Krzysztof Warlikowski perceives a shared dramatic thread, a shared feminine consciousness and a shared sense of imprisonment and suffocation: for the woman who penetrates the confines of Bluebeard’s castle and Elle, the woman who clings to a telephone conversation with a man as the only thing worth living for, are condemned to share the same fate.

Tristan Und Isolde Trailer (2016)

27 November 2016

Rossini: La Cenerentola Trailer (2009)

09 May 2009

"Irresistible" (Opera News) rising-star mezzo Elina Garanca triumphs as Rossini's Cinderella in this delightful Metropolitan Opera production.

Edward Elgar - The Dream of Gerontius Trailer (2019)

20 May 2019

Newman's poem tells the story of a soul's journey through death, and provides a meditation on the unseen world of Roman Catholic theology.

Hoffmanns Erzählungen Trailer (2011)

30 October 2011

Live performance, Bayerische Staatsoper, 2011. The Tales of Hoffmann (French: LES CONTES D'HOFFMANN) is an opéra fantastique by Jacques Offenbach that combines three short stories by E.

Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia Trailer (2007)

24 March 2007

Audiences went wild for Bartlett Sher’s dynamic production, which found fresh and surprising ways to bring Rossini’s effervescent comedy closer to them than ever before.

Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust Trailer (2008)

22 November 2008

Radiant mezzo-soprano Susan Graham and dashing Italian tenor Marcello Giordani are unlucky lovers in La Damnation de Faust, Hector Berlioz’s classic take on dancing with the devil.

The ROH Live: Nabucco Trailer (2016)

09 June 2016

Nabucco, King of Babylon, takes Jerusalem in his war with the Israelites – but his daughter Fenena loves the Israelite Ismaele.

The Metropolitan Opera: Don Carlos Trailer (2022)

26 March 2022

For the first time in company history, the Met presents the original five-act French version of Verdi’s epic opera of doomed love among royalty, set against the backdrop of the Spanish Inquisition.

The Metropolitan Opera – Verdi: Macbeth Trailer (2008)

13 April 2008

Verdi’s admiration for Shakespeare led to such masterpieces as Othello and Falstaff, and if the earlier Macbeth isn’t on their exalted level it’s still a powerfully dramatic opera that hews closely to the original’s story line.

The Metropolitan Opera: Rusalka Trailer (2014)

08 February 2014

Renée Fleming sings one of her signature roles, the title character in Dvořák’s sumptuously melodic Rusalka.