The world's most popular opera brings 19th-century Paris to the Met stage as Puccini’s young friends and lovers navigate the joy and struggle of bohemian life.

Strauss’s elegant romance brings the glamour and enchantment of 19th-century Vienna to a sumptuous production by legendary director Otto Schenk that “is as beautiful as one could hope” (The New York Times).

Laurent Pelly’s storybook staging of Massenet’s Cinderella is presented with an English translation in an abridged 90-minute adaptation, with mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard as its rags-to-riches princess.