Gathering

This unabashedly eclectic album features stirring and varied songs by Ben Moore, who has chosen poems spanning 2,600 years for his texts.

Verdi: La Traviata

Lyric Opera of Chicago
Sir Andrew Davis, conductor

Renée Fleming, Matthew Polenzani, Thomas Hampson

Verdi: Rigoletto

Lyric Opera of Chicago
Marco Armiliato, conductor

Quinn Kelsey, Rosa Feola, Matthew Polenzani

R. Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier

Decca Classics and The Metropolitan Opera present Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier, featuring the "dramatic chemistry" (New York Times) of Renée Fleming and Elīna Garanča.

Donizetti: La Favorite

Enjoy this UNITEL Blu-ray/DVD release of Donizetti's 'La Favorite' from the Bayerische Staatsoper, with an all-star cast featuring Matthew Polenzani as Fernand and Elīna Garanča as Léonor de Guzman. The production, new to the Staatsoper, is staged by Amélie Niermeyer.

50 Years At Lincoln Center: A Gala Celebration

On May 7, 2017, the Met celebrated its golden anniversary in Lincoln Center with a spectacular gala featuring some of the greatest artists in opera.

Mozart: Idomeneo

Recorded Live at the Met on March 25, 2017.

Mozart’s once-rare opera has become a favorite at the Met, thanks to James Levine’s loving conducting of the score and this stunning production by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle. Matthew Polenzani is in resplendent form in the title role of the King of Crete, with Alice Coote as a memorable Idamante, his son, who is in love with Ilia, a touching Nadine Sierra. Elza van den Heever’s Elettra is a tour de force.

Bizet: Les Pêcheurs de perles

Amazon: ... a major success, both for the production by Penny Woolcock and the musical performance, conducted by Gianandrea Noseda, with Diana Damrau as the priestess Leïla and, as the two men competing for love, the tenor Matthew Polenzani (Nadir) and the baritone Mariusz Kwiecien (Zurga).

Brahms: Lieder, Liebeslieder & Waltzes

The first release of the live concert from the 2003 Verbier Festival from Deutsche Grammophon, featuring singers Andrea Rost, Magdalena Kozena, Matthew Polenzani, and Thomas Quasthoff, and pianists Yefim Bronfman and James Levine.

Encores: Great Performances at the Met

Encores! Great Performances at the Met (DVD) This special Metropolitan Opera Encores program features 18 unforgettable arias and duets selected from eight seasons of GREAT PERFORMANCES at The Met broadcasts, performed by today's greatest opera stars and talents.

An AIDS Quilt Songbook: Sing For Hope

An all-star cast of renowned singers and instrumentalists comes together on one CD to sing for hope and in the cause of supporting AIDS research.

Donizetti: Maria Stuarda

New Year's Eve 2012 brought the first-ever performance at New York's Metropolitan Opera of Donizetti's Maria Stuarda, famed for its incendiary, if fictional, confrontation between Mary Stuart (Mary, Queen of Scots) and Queen Elizabeth I of England. The performance on this DVD took place on January 19th 2013 and was broadcast to cinemas around the world.

Great Voices Sing John Denver

Legendary music producer, Milt Okun, along with composer Lee Holdridge and conductor and singer, Plácido Domingo, bring some of the most famous names in opera to John Denver's famous hit songs: Great Voices Sing John Denver.

“Schubert, Beethoven, Britten and Hahn” – Wigmore Hall Live

Often referred to as one of the most gifted and distinguished lyric tenors of his generation, Matthew Polenzani has been praised for the artistic versatility and fresh lyricism that he brings to concert and operatic appearances on leading international stages. He has performed, among many others, opposite Renée Fleming, Anna Netrebko and Diana Damrau, and under the baton of Lorin Maazel, Pierre Boulez and Riccardo Muti.

Mozart: The Magic Flute

The inaugural broadcast of the Peabody and Emmy®-award winning series The Met Live in HD.

Donizetti: Don Pasquale

James Levine conducts the orchestra and chorus of the Metropolitan Opera in this production of Donizetti's opera recorded live in 2010.

Liszt: The Complete Songs Vol. 1

This first volume in the series features the American tenor Matthew Polenzani who has been astounding Met opera audiences in recent years. He is accompanied by the curator of the series, Julius Drake.

Mozart: Don Giovanni

Enjoy a DVD featuring an outstanding cast in a production that, by its very originality, demonstrates the strength of Mozart's original conception.

Verdi: La Traviata

This DVD recording of Verdi's masterpiece stars Matthew Polenzani, Mireille Delunsch, Zeljko Lucic, Damiana Pinti, and Yutaka Sado.

Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

Ben Heppner, Karita Mattila, Matthew Polenzani, René Pape, and James Morris star in this Metropolitan Opera production of the Wagner opera conducted by James Levine.

Schoenberg: Gurre-Lieder (Documents of the Munich Years, Vol. 1)

Maestro James Levine leads the Munich Philharmonic and an acclaimed roster of artists in a performance of Schoenberg's 'Guerre-Lieder' in a live performance, captured on disc by OEHMS Classics.

A Night at the Opera

A Night At The Opera features five young singers who have already made considerable names for themselves.

Matthew Polenzani: Live at the Verbier Festival & Academy

Featuring songs by Gioachino Rossini, Francis Poulenc, and Gerald Finzi, performed by tenor Matthew Polenzani and pianist Roger Vignoles.

Beethoven: Fidelio

A critically acclaimed DVD release of Beethoven's only operatic work, staged at The Metropolitan Opera with a starry international cast.