Check out Donizetti's ANNA BOLENA in Sitzprobe rehearsal last week! Soprano Sondra Radvanovsky shares some dramatic high notes, and a high five with Ildar Abdrazakov, as she gets ready to kick-off her quest to conquer all three Tudor operas in a single season. Anna Bolena opens September 26. http://bit.ly/1VLPWqb | The Metropolitan Opera

[NEW] Dive into Gaetano Donizetti’s first “overwhelming success,” Anna Bolena. Set in 1536, this two-act tragic opera tells the story of Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII, who is arrested for high treason by the King, a plot orchestrated so he could satisfy his desires with Giovanna Seymour, a lady-in-waiting to Queen Anne. Watch Elina Garanca as Giovanna Seymour perform “Di Me Sollecita...Innanzi Alla Mia Vittima” alongside The Vienna State Opera Orchestra and Chorus, under the skillfu