Live performance recorded with the Metropolitan Opera, Orchestra, and Chorus. Includes live radio interviews from backstage and the Parterre of Opening Night at the New Met as well as recordings of performances of Mozart's Don Giovanni, Ponchielli's La Gioconda, Wagner's Lohengrin, Puccini's La Boheme, Verdi's La Traviata and Il Trovatore, Strauss's Elektra, and Levy's Mourning Becomes Electra.