Eric Owens
Know for: Acting
Born: 1970-07-11
Place of birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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Verdi's Requiem: The Met Remembers 9/11 (2021)
Honor the 20th anniversary of the September 11 attacks with this special performance hosted by Misty Copeland and led by Met Music Director Yannick...
The Metropolitan Opera: Das Rheingold (2013)
In the depths of the Rhine, the three Rhinemaidens guard the Rhinegold, a treasure of immeasurable value. The Nibelung dwarf Alberich is dazzled by...
The Metropolitan Opera: Don Carlos (2022)
For the first time in company history, the Met presents the original five-act French version of Verdi’s epic opera of doomed love among...
The Metropolitan Opera: Champion (2023)
Six-time Grammy Award–winning composer Terence Blanchard brings his first opera to the Met after his Fire Shut Up in My Bones triumphantly...
I Capuleti e i Montecchi (2014)
Bellini's radiant retelling of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is a beacon in the bel canto tradition. San Francisco Opera's co-production features...
The Metropolitan Opera: L’Amour de Loin (2016)
Robert Lepage’s dreamlike production, with its thousands of twinkling LED lights stretching across the stage to represent the sea, encapsulates...
Strauss: Elektra (2016)
The great singing actress Nina Stemme gives a heart-wrenching performance in the title role of Strauss’s blazing one-act drama, adapted from...
Wagner: Das Rheingold (2010)
Robert Lepage’s landmark staging of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen, unveiled over the course of the 2010–11 and 2011–12...
The Metropolitan Opera: Götterdämmerung (2012)
Ring Cycle, pt 4. Siegfried is drugged and tricked into kidnapping his wife, since she has the Ring now. More double-crossings, Siegfried ends up...
The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess (2009)
In the early 1900s, the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina serves as home to a black fishing community. Crippled beggar...
Prince Igor (2014)
Live performance from the Metropolitan Opera, March 1, 2014. Absent from the Met stage since 1917, Borodin’s masterwork about an introspective...
The Metropolitan Opera: Idomeneo (2017)
Mozart’s early masterpiece returned to the Met for the first time in more than a decade with Music Director Emeritus James Levine, who led the...
Verdi: Nabucco (2017)
The legendary Plácido Domingo brings another new baritone role to the Met under the baton of his longtime collaborator James Levine. Liudmyla...
The Metropolitan Opera: Siegfried (2011)
Robert Lepage’s remarkable Met Opera production of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen, the 2013 Grammy Award Winner for Best Opera...
Verdi: Otello (2015)
Tony Award winner Bartlett Sher’s bold new production probes the psychological underpinnings of Verdi’s dynamic setting of...
Philip Glass: Satyagraha (2011)
Following the success of his first foray into opera, Einstein on the Beach, revolutionary American composer and musician Philip Glass soon turned to...
Adams: Doctor Atomic (2008)
John Adams’s mesmerizing score, in the powerful production of Penny Woolcock, tells the story of one of the pivotal moments in human...
John Adams: Doctor Atomic (2007)
The European premiere of the opera by the contemporary American composer John Adams, with libretto by Peter Sellars, in a co-production of the San...
The Metropolitan Opera: Rusalka (2017)
Kristine Opolais “gives a vocally lustrous and achingly vulnerable performance” (New York Times) in the role that helped launch her...
The Metropolitan Opera: Wozzeck (2020)
Berg’s 20th-century shocker stars baritone Peter Mattei in the title role, with Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin on the podium...
The Metropolitan Opera: Porgy and Bess (2020)
The Gershwins’ modern American masterpiece has its first Met performances in almost three decades, starring bass-baritone Eric Owens and...
Beethoven: Symphony 9 by Riccardo Muti (2014)
Experience what Zell Music Director Riccardo Muti calls “the work of a divine architect” in this special encore presentation of...