Great Performances

Season 39, Episode 16

Episode Title: Great Performances at the Met: Faust

Air Date: 2012-05-13

Overview:

Three of the opera world’s leading stars—Jonas Kaufmann, Marina Poplavskaya, and René Pape—sing the principal roles in a new production of Gounod’s Faust, directed by Tony Award winner Des McAnuff in his Met debut. Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts his first Met performances of the opera.