A veteran of nearly 400 Met performances, including in seven Mozart roles, tenor Matthew Polenzani headlined a rare revival of the composer’s Idomeneo in 2017. In tonight’s free Nightly Met Opera Stream, see him give a powerful performance as the mythic Greek king; the full performance is available starting at 7:30PM ET until tomorrow, June 18, at 6:30PM ET. Access the stream on metopera.org and on all Met Opera on Demand apps. Enhance your viewing experience with curated supplementary content—i

🔱 What a journey🔱 Closing night's transcendent performance of Mozart’s Idomeneo brought this beautiful run to a powerful close. 🎼 "Eun Sun Kim, SFO’s current Music Director, conjured up power and grace in first ever outing with the score. More importantly, she brought up all the nuances and colors from the orchestra, from the stormy sea in Act I to the grave solemnity of the temple scene in the final Act. It was all super exciting and cohesive." —Michael Anthonio/Parterre Box 👏🏽 Endless tha

Premiered just two days after Mozart’s 25th birthday, Idomeneo marked a major turning point in the composer’s operatic career. Enjoy the full opera with tonight’s free Nightly Met Opera Stream. The 2017 performance—starring tenor Matthew Polenzani, sopranos Nadine Sierra and Elza van den Heever, and mezzo-soprano Alice Coote—is available tonight, October 4, starting at 7:30PM ET until tomorrow, October 5, at 6:30PM ET. Enhance your viewing experience with curated supplementary content—including

On stage tonight, October 6, at 7PM: Mozart’s Idomeneo! Maestro Manfred Honeck returns to the podium to conduct Jean-Pierre Ponnelle’s dramatic staging, giving a rendition of the young Mozart’s masterpiece that was described by The New York Times as “full-bodied, with rich vitality.” The magnificent cast features Michael Spyres - BariTenor in the title role of the ancient Cretan king, alongside sopranos Ying Fang and Federica Lombardi, Kate Lindsey Mezzo Soprano, and tenors Paolo Fanale and Issa

🤩🗞️ Hurra, hurra – unsere Theaterzeitung ist wieder da! Darin gibt’s wie immer wissenswerte Infos zum Programm – mit unseren kommenden Highlights «Sein oder Nichtsein», «Idomeneo» und «Schwanensee» sowie musikalisch-magischen Abenden mit «Screen & Score: Smetana – Mein Vaterland» und dem 4. Symphoniekonzert «Waldweben». 🦢 Star dieser Ausgabe? Ganz klar: Tschaikowskis «Schwanensee» – eine der ikonischsten Kompositionen überhaupt, vereint mit einer fantastischen Märchenwelt. Premiere am 7.3. im