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  • During the Jim Crow Era, Indigenous children were forced to leave Virginia to get their diplomas.
  • During the Second World War, Indigenous men in Virginia were not allowed to identify as Native Americans. Some fought back.This episode Includes the Chickahominy Indian Tribe, the Chickahominy Indian Tribe - Eastern Division, the Rappahannock Tribe, the Pamunkey Indian Tribe, the Monacan Indian Nation and the Upper Mattaponi Indian Tribe.
  • Coming September 25th: A documentary about how survivors of Hurricane Helene are rebuilding their homes and local economies in Southwest Virginia.
  • A dream cast assembles for Strauss’s grand Viennese comedy.
  • The opera that announced the young Mozart’s genius to the world returns to the Met stage, with acclaimed maestro Manfred Honeck making a notable company debut on the podium.
  • Two exciting conductors, Daniele Rustioni and James Gaffigan, take the podium to lead Mozart’s breathless and breathtaking comedy.
  • Soprano Nina Stemme brought down the house when she headlined the premiere of visionary director Patrice Chéreau’s 2016 staging of Elektra. Now she returns to Strauss’s unhinged heroine.
  • Two of today’s most thrilling voices share the title role of the legendary cold-hearted princess: Christine Goerke, the Met’s reigning dramatic soprano, and superstar Anna Netrebko, making her long-awaited Met role debut after providing a hair-raising preview in 2019’s New Year’s Eve Gala.
  • When Australian composer Brett Dean’s Hamlet had its world premiere at the Glyndebourne Festival in 2017, The Guardian declared, “New opera doesn’t often get to sound this good … Shakespeare offers a gauntlet to composers that shouldn’t always be picked up, but Dean’s Hamlet rises to the challenge.”
  • After an acclaimed company debut conducting the Met premiere of Kaija Saariaho’s L’Amour de Loin in 2016, Susanna Mälkki returns to lead Stravinsky’s neoclassical dark comedy.
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