In his LES HUGUENOTS [1836] Giacomo Meyerbeer transposed one of the bloodiest massacres in European history to the opera stage. The attempt by French Catholics to murder all the country’s Protestants on St Bartholomew’s Day in 1572 remains one of most ghastly examples...

Featuring powerhouse performances, Norma tells the tragic story of a dangerous love triangle that opens in the midst of impending war between the Druids and the Romans in ancient Gaul.

Norma, a powerful Druid high-priestess, is driven to the brink of madness when h...

Avant Rossini et son Barbier de Séville présenté à la fin de la saison, Mozart s’était lui aussi inspiré de Beaumarchais pour sa première collaboration avec le librettiste Da Ponte. Chef-d’œuvre tant musical que narratif, Les Noces de Figaro mêlent intrigues amoureuses...

CONCERT REPERTOIRE
Verdi: Messa da Requiem

• The orchestra, chorus and soloists fill every inch of the stage at Symphony Hall for this performance of Verdi’s profound masterwork, the Requiem.
• Written in honor of the death of an important cultural icon, this musical...

A disheveled bed, letters strewn across the floor, a woman pacing alone in her apartment, awaiting her lover's last call... 

Francis Poulenc's compelling monologue The Human Voice (La voix humaine), based on the 1930 play by Jean Cocteau, tells the story of a relation...

omedia lírica en un prólogo y dos actos

Duración aproximada: 1 hora y 45 minutos (sin pausa).

Música de GONZALO ROIG
Libreto de Agustín Rodríguez y José Sánchez-Arcilla
Estrenada en el Teatro Martí de La Habana, el 26 de marzo de 1932
Nueva producción del Teatro de la Za...

Strictures and bigotry, tradition and control… rural life in a Moravian village smouldering under a burning glass. We follow the fortunes of the characters through the changing of the seasons, are witness to a sweltering summer followed by a brutal winter. In early spr...

One of America’s favorite operas returns to the Met for the first time in nearly 30 years. James Robinson’s stylish production transports audiences to Catfish Row on the Charleston waterfront, vibrant with the music, dancing, emotion, and heartbreak of its inhabitants....

Stephen Sondheim’s razor-sharp musical is about hard-working barber Benjamin Barker, who is unfairly banished to Australia by vile Judge Turpin. Turpin muscles in on the barber’s family, both the wife and daughter, and the barber’s anger and helplessness at the rough i...