Rampart

Los Angeles, 1999. Officer Dave Brown (two-time Academy Award(R) nominee Woody Harrelson) is a Vietnam vet and a Rampart Precinct cop, dedicated to doing “the people’s dirty work” and asserting his own code of justice, often blurring the lines between right and wrong to maintain his action-hero state of mind. When he gets caught on tape

Ernani - MET Live

Angela Meade takes center stage in Verdi’s thrilling early gem. Salvatore Licitra is her mismatched lover, and all-star Verdians Dmitri Hvorostovsky and Ferruccio Furlanetto round out the cast.

Where Eagles Dare

Richard Burton stars as Major John Smith, a British agent during WWII who is in charge a group of six Allied soldiers given the task of rescuing an American general—who is reportedly in possession of the plans for D-Day—from a seemingly impregnable German fortress located high in the Bavarian Alps. Assisting Smith is the sole American in

Le Corsaire - Bolshoi Live

A swashbuckling romantic tale of the rescue of a beautiful slave from her tyrannical master by a handsome pirate – with some of ballet’s most famous individual passages, including the famous Pas de Deux.

Medora, a young Greek girl, is sold by a slave dealer. The pirate Conrad seizes Medora and declares his love for her. Conrad’s

Manon - MET Live

Following on her triumph in the 2010-11 season in don Pasquale,the glorious Russian Soprano Anna Netrebko’s dazzling portrayal of the tragic heroine who loves too much in one of the greatest romantic French operas. Laurent Pelly’s sparkling new production travels to the Met from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Piotr Beczala and

La Traviata - MET Live

One remarkable soprano follows another in another tragic love story, this time one of the great favourites by the master of Italian 19th century opera – Giuseppe Verdi. Natalie Dessay will put on the red dress in Willy Decker’s stunning production, in her first time to appear as Violetta at the Met. TenorMatthew Polenzani sings

The Bright Stream - Bolshoi Live

The Bolshoi’s production of the Bright Stream has been described as one of the funniest ballets ever seen on stage, when a big city dance troupe visits a collective farm to perform for the bemused workers.

During a harvest festival on a collective farm in the Russian steppes, a Moscow dance troupe arrives from the big city to

Raymonda - Bolshoi Live

To a lush exotic score by Alexander Glazunov , Raymonda tells the tale of a French noblewoman betrothed to a Crusader Knight , and her attempted abduction by a spurned Saracen rival for her affections.

Raymonda has said farewell to her betrothed Knight as he leaves on the crusades. Subsequently a saracen knight appears at a royal event