As the title character in Jacques Offenbach’s “Les Contes d’Hoffmann” peers at a mechanical doll through special fantasy-granting glasses, the toy becomes far more than the sum of her mannequin parts ...

Recorded in February from the Spanish Riding School in Vienna, Austria, the megastar performs Russian songs by Rachmaninoff, Rimsky-Korsakov, and Tchaikovsky as well as selections by Debussy, Dvořák, ...

A scene from the Prologue of Offenbach's "Les Contes d'Hoffmann" with Ana Netrebko as Stella. (Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera) Joseph Calleja as Hoffmann and Ekaterina Gubanova as Giulietta in ...

Starring Anna Netrebko, Kathleen Kim, Ekaterina Gubanova, Kate Lindsey, Joseph Calleja, and Alan Held, conducted by James Levine. Production by Bartlett Sher. From DECEMBER 19, 2009.