Great Performances at the Met

Enjoy Strauss' Viennese comedy with Lise Davidsen as the aging Marschallin opposite Samantha Hankey in the "pants role" as her lover Octavian with Erin Morley as the younger woman who steals his heart.

Sung in Spanish and inspired by the magical realism of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Mexican composer Daniel Catan's 1996 opera tells the enchanting story of an opera diva who returns to her native South America to perform at the legendary opera house of Manaus -- and to search for her lost lover, who has vanished into the jungle.