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• Opening credits
• Introduction by Anthony Roth Costanzo
• Sinfonia
• Ti desta, Luisa, regina de'cori
• Ecco mia figlia
• Lo vidi, e'l primo palpito
• T'amo d'amor ch'esprimere
• Ferma ed ascolta
• Sacra la scelta è d'un consorte
• Costarti o vecchio debole
• Ah! fu giusto il mio sospetto!
• Che mai narrasti!
• Il mio sangue, la vita darei
• Padre...M'abbraccia...Portator
• Quale un sorriso d'amica sorte
• Duchessa...Dall'aule raggianti
• Sciogliete i levrieri
• Del Conte di Walter figlio
• Tu, tu, signor fra queste soglie!
• Fra'mortali ancora oppressa
• I cenni miei si compiano
• Ah! Luisa, Luisa ove sei?
• Il padre tuo...Finisci
• Tu puniscimi, o Signore
• Qui nulla s'attenta imporre al tuo core
• A brani, a brani, o perfido
• Egli delira: sul mattin degli anni
• L'alto retaggio non ho bramato
• Vien la Duchessa!...
• Presentarti all Duchessa
• Il foglio dunque?...Io tutto già vi narrai!
• Quando le sere al placido
• Di me chiedeste?...Appressati. Leggi.
• L'ara, o l'avello apprestami
• Introduction to Act III by Anthony Roth Costanzo
• Come in un giorno solo
• O dolce amica, e ristorar non vuoi
• Pallida, mesta sei!...No, padre mio
• La tomba è un letto sparso di fiori
• Andrem, raminghi e poveri
• Ah! l'ultima preghiera
• Piangi, piangi il tuo dolore
• Donna per noi terribile ora squillò suprema!...
• Padre, ricevi l'estremo addio
• Closing credits
• Backstage at the Met with host Anthony Roth Costanzo. Interview with Sonya Yoncehva ; Interview with Plácido Domingo ; Interview with Piotr Beczała

Premiered immediately before the enduring masterpieces Rigoletto, Il Trovatore, and La Traviata, Luisa Miller incorporates the youthful vitality that had made Verdi an international sensation while also looking forward to the dramaturgical discipline and sophistication of those later works. In this Live in HD performance, soprano Sonya Yoncheva takes on the riveting title role, capping off a season in which she starred in three cinema transmissions. As her father, Miller, the legendary Plácido Domingo adds another baritone role to his extensive repertoire. Tenor Piotr Beczała as Rodolfo, Alexander Vinogradov as Count Walter, and Dmitry Belosselskiy as Wurm round out the illustrious cast, and Bertrand de Billy conducts

Verdi's lively opera Luisa Miller - filled with tricks, betrayals, and love stories - is performed at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège in a staging by Jean-Claude Fall and conducted by Massimo Zanetti. Savatore Cammarano's libretto, based on Schiller's Kabale und Liebe, incorporates solely the elements from the original German drama that enable the characters to express their passions, leaving out the delicate political aspects of the story that risked censure. Verdi's fourteenth opera, the work was both commissioned and premiered on December 1849 by Naples' Teatro San Carlo. More modern than Verdi's previous operas, it precedes the composer's legendary trilogy Rigoletto, Il Trovatore, and La Traviata. As Luisa Miller, Patrizia Ciofi displays the qualities for which she originally became famous in her performances of Gilda in Rigoletto. Nicola Alaimo plays the father, Miller, with his powerful, dramatic voice serving the character to great advantage. As Rodolfo, Gregory Kunde takes the stage of the Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège for the very first time. Those soloists are accompanied by the choir and orchestra of the Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège, conducted respectively by chorus master Marcel Seminara and conductor Massimo Zanetti, himself an expert of 19th century repertoire in general, and of Verdi in particular. The setting is a small Tyrolean village in the 17th century. Luisa, an old soldier's daughter, and Rodolfo, Count Walter's son, are madly in love. The count, who wants his son to marry Duchess Fererica, sentences the old soldier to death and jails Luisa. Desperate to save her father, Luisa agrees to a plan concocted by the count's servant, Wurm, who is also in love with her: she will marry him and write a letter to Rodolfo pretending she never loved him, but had rather seduced him for personal gain. Torn apart by the terrible news, Rodolfo obtains some poison and goes meet Luisa to learn whether she betrayed him.

• Opening credits
• Sinfonia
• Ti desta, Luisa, regina de'cori
• Ecco mia figlia
• Lo vidi, e'l primo palpito
• T'amo d'amor ch'esprimere
• Ferma ed ascolta
• Sacra la scelta è d'un consorte
• Costanti o vecchio
• Ah! fu giusto il mio sospetto!
• Che mai narrasti!
• Il mio sangue, la vita darei
• Padre, M'abbraccia ; Portator son io
• Quale un sorriso d'amica sorte
• Duchessa, Duchessa tu m'appelli!
• Dall'aule raggiandi di vano splendor
• Sciogliete i levrieri
• Del Conte di Walter figlio
• Tu, tu, signor fra queste soglie!
• Fra'mortali ancora oppressa
• I cenni miei si compiano
• Ah! Luisa, Luisa ove sei?
• Il padre tuo, Finisci
• Tu puniscimi, o Signore
• Qui nulla s'attenta imporre al tuo core
• A brani, a brani, o perfido
• Egli delira: sul mattin degli anni
• L'alto retaggio non ho bramato
• Vien la Duchessa!
• Presentarti all Duchessa puoi, Luisa
• Il foglio dunque?-- Io tutto già vi narrai!
• Quando le sere al placido
• Di me chiedeste?-- Appressati
• L'ara, o l'avello apprestami
• Come in un giorno solo
• O dolce amica, e ristorar non vuoi
• Pallida, mesta sei!
• La tomba è un letto sparso di fiori
• Andrem, raminghi e poveri
• Ah! l'ultima preghiera in questo caro suolo
• Piangi, piangi il tuo dolore
• Donna per noi terribile
• Padre, ricevi l'estremo addio
• Closing credits

Renata Scotto is the innocent Luisa, very much in love with Rodolfo (Plácido Domingo in one of his best roles). But he turns out to be the son of the Count Walter (Bonaldo Giaiotti), who has other plans for his aristocratic boy. Enter the evil Wurm (James Morris) whose blackmail eventually backfires, destroying the young lovers despite everything Luisa's father (Sherrill Milnes in a superb performance) does to protect her. James Levine's affectionate conducting and director Nathaniel Merrill's production help make this a performance to treasure