The Metropolitan Opera Movie Trailers
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The Magic Flute: Metropolitan Opera Trailer (2011)
16 August 2011
The Magic Flute has delighted audiences of all ages for centuries. Julie Taymor's dazzling English-language production brings one of Mozart s greatest works to life as never before.
Così fan tutte Trailer (1996)
27 February 1996
Live performance from the Metropolitan Opera, 27 February, 1996.
The Metropolitan Opera: Madama Butterfly Trailer (2019)
09 November 2019
Ever since it opened the 2006–07 season, Anthony Minghella’s striking production of Madama Butterfly has been a Met classic.
Le Nozze di Figaro Trailer (1998)
11 November 1998
The Met assembled a vocal dream team for Jonathan Miller’s stylish production of the eternal Mozart masterpiece: Renée Fleming as the Countess, Cecilia Bartoli as Susanna, and Bryn Terfel as Figaro.
Massenet: Cendrillon Trailer (2018)
28 April 2018
The 2017–18 Live in HD season concluded with an enchanted performance of Cendrillon, Massenet’s glittering operatic adaptation of the Cinderella story.
The Metropolitan Opera: Romeo et Juliette Trailer (2024)
23 March 2024
Two singers at the height of their powers—radiant soprano Nadine Sierra and tenor sensation Benjamin Bernheim—come together as the star-crossed lovers in Gounod’s sumptuous Shakespeare adaptation, with Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin on the podium to conduct one of the repertoire’s most romantic scores.
The Metropolitan Opera: Salome Trailer (2025)
17 May 2025
Met performances of Strauss’s white-hot one-act tragedy, which receives its first new production at the company in 20 years.
Turandot Trailer (1987)
01 April 1987
The Franco Zeffirelli production of Puccini's "Turandot", recorded live at the Metropolitan Opera in April, 1987.
The Metropolitan Opera: Il Barbiere di Siviglia Trailer (2025)
31 May 2025
Mezzo-soprano Aigul Akhmetshina headlines a winning ensemble as the feisty heroine, Rosina, alongside high-flying tenor Jack Swanson, in his Met debut, as her secret beloved, Count Almaviva.
The Metropolitan Opera: Samson et Dalila Trailer (2018)
20 October 2018
A towering biblical epic, Saint-Saëns’s operatic take on the story of Samson and Delilah has many of the hallmarks of grand opera—show-stopping vocal displays, thrilling choruses, and an engrossing plot set against a sweeping, pseudo-historical backdrop.
The Metropolitan Opera: Wozzeck Trailer (2020)
11 January 2020
Berg’s 20th-century shocker stars baritone Peter Mattei in the title role, with Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin on the podium and soprano Elza van den Heever as the long-suffering Marie.
The Metropolitan Opera: Luisa Miller Trailer (2018)
14 April 2018
Premiered immediately before the enduring masterpieces Rigoletto, Il Trovatore, and La Traviata, Luisa Miller incorporates the youthful vitality that had made Verdi an international sensation while also looking forward to the dramaturgical discipline and sophistication of those later works.
La Forza del Destino Trailer (1984)
23 March 1984
Leonora plans to elope with Don Alvaro, but he accidentally shoots and kills her father, who curses them as he dies.
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: Eugene Onegin Trailer (2026)
02 May 2026
Tchaikovsky’s many moods—tender, grand, melancholy—are all given free rein in Eugene Onegin. The opera is based on Pushkin’s iconic verse novel, which reimagines the Byronic romantic anti-hero as the definitive bored Russian aristocrat caught between convention and ennui; Tchaikovsky, similarly, took Western European operatic forms and transformed them into an authentic and undeniably Russian work.
The Metropolitan Opera: Madama Butterfly Trailer (2024)
11 May 2024
Extraordinary soprano Asmik Grigorian tackles the demanding role of Cio-Cio-San, the loyal geisha at the heart of Puccini’s devastating tragedy.
The Metropolitan Opera: Nabucco Trailer (2024)
06 January 2024
The success of Verdi’s third opera, a stirring drama about the fall of ancient Jerusalem at the hands of Nebuchadnezzar (Nabucco), catapulted the 28-year-old composer to international fame.
The Metropolitan Opera: La Fille du Régiment Trailer (2019)
02 March 2019
Tenor Javier Camarena and soprano Pretty Yende team up for a feast of bel canto vocal fireworks—including the show-stopping tenor aria “Ah! Mes amis,” with its nine high Cs.
Lohengrin Trailer (1986)
10 January 1986
Wagner’s Romantic opera demands singing actors who can truly inhabit their parts, and that’s just what we have here.
The Metropolitan Opera: The Elixir of Love Trailer (2018)
07 July 2018
Donizetti’s bubbly romantic comedy about a spunky landowner, a hapless peasant, and the dubious love potion that may or may not bring them together never fails to delight audiences.
Adams: Doctor Atomic Trailer (2008)
11 August 2008
John Adams’s mesmerizing score, in the powerful production of Penny Woolcock, tells the story of one of the pivotal moments in human history—the creation of the atomic bomb.
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.
The Metropolitan Opera: The Magic Flute Trailer (2023)
03 June 2023
One of opera’s most beloved works receives its first new Met staging in 19 years—a daring vision by renowned English director Simon McBurney that The Wall Street Journal declared “the best production I’ve ever witnessed of Mozart’s opera.
Tosca Trailer (1978)
27 November 1978
A stellar cast brings Puccini’s spellbinding opera to life, seizing every opportunity to thrill the audience.
The Metropolitan Opera: Aida Trailer (2018)
06 October 2018
With its cast of hundreds, thrilling score, and sweeping tale of love and heroics in ancient Egypt, Verdi’s Aida has long been a fixture on the stages of every major opera house in the world.
The Metropolitan Opera: La Traviata Trailer (2017)
11 March 2017
La Traviata’s sumptuous melodies and timeless depiction of doomed love have made the work a favorite of generations of operagoers.
The Metropolitan Opera - Verdi: Macbeth Trailer (2014)
11 October 2014
Star soprano Anna Netrebko created a sensation with her riveting performance as the malevolent Lady Macbeth, the central character in Verdi's retelling of Shakespeare's tragedy.
Puccini: Manon Lescaut Trailer (1980)
29 March 1980
All the throbbing eroticism—and ultimate heartbreak—of Puccini’s youthful score is unleashed by James Levine and his top-flight cast.
The Ghosts of Versailles Trailer (1992)
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.
The Metropolitan Opera: La Sonnambula Trailer (2025)
18 October 2025
Nadine Sierra summits another peak of the soprano repertoire as Amina, who sleepwalks her way into audiences’ hearts in Bellini’s poignant tale of love lost and found.
Ariadne auf Naxos Trailer (1988)
01 January 1988
Jessye Norman is a regal Ariadne, the mythological Greek heroine in this opera-within-an-opera, opposite the passionate Bacchus of the great James King.
Idomeneo Trailer (1982)
01 January 1982
Opera royalty Luciano Pavarotti brings dignity and power to the title role in this 1982 production. During a squall at sea, Idomeneo -- the king of Crete -- swears to Neptune that if the monarch survives, he'll sacrifice the first person he encounters onshore.
The Metropolitan Opera: Carmen Trailer (2024)
27 January 2024
Director Carrie Cracknell makes her Met debut, reinvigorating the classic story with a staging that moves the action to the modern day, in a contemporary American industrial town.
The First Emperor Trailer (2007)
13 January 2007
The incomparable Plácido Domingo began a new chapter in his legendary Met career when he created the role of Emperor Qin in the world premiere of Tan Dun’s epic opera.
The Metropolitan Opera: Marnie Trailer (2018)
10 November 2018
Composer Nico Muhly unveils his second new opera for the Met with this gripping reimagining of Winston Graham’s novel, set in the 1950s, about a beautiful, mysterious young woman who assumes multiple identities.
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Simon Boccanegra [The Metropolitan Opera] Trailer (2011)
22 February 2011
When this sumptuous production by Giancarlo del Monaco opened in 1995, legendary tenor Plácido Domingo gave a riveting performance as the fiery revolutionary Gabriele Adorno, a tenor part.
Bizet: The Pearl Fishers Trailer (2016)
15 January 2016
Bizet’s rarely heard opera returned to the Met for the first time in a century on New Year’s Eve 2015, in Penny Woolcock’s acclaimed new production.
The Metropolitan Opera: Cavalleria Rusticana & Pagliacci Trailer (2015)
23 April 2015
Director David McVicar’s new production brings opera’s favorite double bill to new life, setting the two operas in the same Sicilian setting, separated by two generations.
Don Giovanni Trailer (1990)
05 April 1990
Every woman wants him, every man wants to be him: Mozart’s version of the irresistible rogue who brings excitement with him and leaves destruction it his wake has always attracted top singing actors, as in this performance brilliantly led by James Levine.
The Metropolitan Opera: The Tales of Hoffmann Trailer (2015)
31 January 2015
New tenor star Vittorio Grigolo takes on the title role in Offenbach’s fantastical opera, giving a tour-de-force performance as the tortured poet unlucky in love.
Francesca da Rimini Trailer (1984)
07 April 1984
Live performance at the Metropolitan Opera, 1984. James Levine conducting Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus.
The Metropolitan Opera: Arabella Trailer (2025)
22 November 2025
Strauss’s elegant romance brings the glamour and enchantment of 19th-century Vienna to cinemas worldwide in a sumptuous production by legendary director Otto Schenk that “is as beautiful as one could hope” (The New York Times).
The Metropolitan Opera: Lulu Trailer (2015)
21 November 2015
William Kentridge’s multi-layered production of Berg’s masterpiece stars charismatic soprano Marlis Petersen in the title role—the enigmatic and alluring woman who is equal parts femme fatale, innocent girl, and abused victim.
Carmen Trailer (1988)
12 December 1988
This all-star cast is framed by Peter Hall’s gritty, realistic production and conducted by James Levine, who brings out all the surging emotion and gripping drama in Bizet’s score.
Prince Igor Trailer (2014)
01 March 2014
Live performance from the Metropolitan Opera, March 1, 2014. Absent from the Met stage since 1917, Borodin’s masterwork about an introspective prince’s military campaign against the invading Polovtsians returned in 2014 with a first-rate cast and an astonishing production by Dmitri Tcherniakov.
Philip Glass: Satyagraha Trailer (2011)
19 November 2011
Following the success of his first foray into opera, Einstein on the Beach, revolutionary American composer and musician Philip Glass soon turned to another great figure of the 20th century for inspiration.
Catán: Florencia en el Amazonas Trailer (2023)
09 December 2023
Inspired by the magical realism of Gabriel García Márquez, Mexican composer Daniel Catán’s 1996 opera tells the enchanting story of a Brazilian opera diva who returns to her homeland to perform at the legendary opera house of Manaus—and to search for her lost lover, who has vanished into the jungle.
The Metropolitan Opera: Lucia di Lammermoor Trailer (2022)
21 May 2022
On May 21, soprano Nadine Sierra takes on one of the repertory’s most formidable and storied roles, the haunted heroine of Lucia di Lammermoor, in an electrifying new staging by in-demand Australian theater and film director Simon Stone, conducted by Riccardo Frizza.
Donizetti: La Fille du Régiment Trailer (2007)
01 June 2007
In January 2007, superstar soprano Natalie Dessay, joined on stage by acclaimed tenor Juan Diego Florez dazzled British audiences in Laurent Pelly's new production of Donizetti's "LA FILLE DU REGIMENT".