In Grand Style

For more than 130 years, The Metropolitan Opera in New York has awed fans and critics alike with its seductive grandeur. Now, for the first time, a breathtaking collection of glorious photographs by Nancy Ellison captures the great artists of this superlative institution, including Luciano Pavarotti, Plácido Domingo, Renée Fleming, Deborah Voigt, divas emeritae Beverly Sills and Risë Stevens, and maestro James Levine.

'In Grand Style' is a glorious pictorial tribute to a golden era of The Metropolitan Opera. Nancy Ellison has magnificently captured in dazzling photographs two recent seasons of stellar opera performances. Her array of dramatic images include not only poignant scenes from twenty-five operas, among them such crowd pleasers as Faust, Le Nozze di Figaro and Nabucco, but also rehearsals, backstage moments, debuts, and triumphant curtain calls. Ellison's emotionally charged photographs personify why The Metropolitan Opera is considered to be the Mecca for not just opera singers but fans of this great art form.