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Free Met Opera Streams Week 4 Aida & More

The Metropolitan Opera continues to present its “Live in HD” encores, now entering their fourth week. The operas stream free, for 23 hours, beginning each day at 7:30 p.m. (“Norma” is available until 6:30 this evening.) You’ll find teasers and bonus materials when following the link.

https://www.metopera.org/user-information/nightly-met-opera-streams/week-4/

Monday, April 6
Verdi’s Aida
Starring Anna Netrebko, Anita Rachvelishvili, Aleksandrs Antonenko, Quinn Kelsey, Dmitry Belosselskiy, and Ryan Speedo Green, conducted by Nicola Luisotti. From October 6, 2018.

Tuesday, April 7
Puccini’s La Fanciulla del West
Starring Deborah Voigt, Marcello Giordani, and Lucio Gallo, conducted by Nicola Luisotti. From January 8, 2011.

Wednesday, April 8
Verdi’s Falstaff
Starring Lisette Oropesa, Angela Meade, Stephanie Blythe, Jennifer Johnson Cano, Paolo Fanale, Ambrogio Maestri, and Franco Vassallo, conducted by James Levine. From December 14, 2013.

Thursday, April 9
Wagner’s Parsifal
Starring Katarina Dalayman, Jonas Kaufmann, Peter Mattei, Evgeny Nikitin, and René Pape, conducted by Daniele Gatti. From March 2, 2013.

Friday, April 10
Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette
Starring Diana Damrau, Vittorio Grigolo, Elliot Madore, and Mikhail Petrenko, conducted by Gianandrea Noseda. From January 21, 2017.

Saturday, April 11
Donizetti’s Don Pasquale
Starring Anna Netrebko, Matthew Polenzani, Mariusz Kwiecien, and John Del Carlo, conducted by James Levine. From November 13, 2010.

Sunday, April 12
Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte
Starring Amanda Majeski, Serena Malfi, Kelli O’Hara, Ben Bliss, Adam Plachetka, and Christopher Maltman, conducted by David Robertson. From March 31, 2018.

April 6, 2020
Free Opera Stream Met Week 3

More opera for a song.

Here’s a list of this week’s Metropolitan Opera “Live in HD” encores, now in their third week. The operas stream free, for 23 hours, beginning each day at 7:30 p.m. (“Tannhäuser” is available until 6:30 this evening.) You’ll find teasers and bonus materials when following the link.

https://www.metopera.org/user-information/nightly-met-opera-streams/week-3/

Monday, March 30
Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites
Starring Isabel Leonard, Adrianne Pieczonka, and Karita Mattila, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. From May 11, 2019.

Tuesday, March 31
Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia
Starring Joyce DiDonato, Juan Diego Flórez, and Peter Mattei, conducted by Maurizio Benini. From March 24, 2007.

Wednesday, April 1
John Adams’s Nixon in China
Starring Janis Kelly and James Maddalena, conducted by John Adams. From February 12, 2011.

Thursday, April 2
Verdi’s Don Carlo
Starring Marina Poplavskaya, Roberto Alagna, Simon Keenlyside, and Ferruccio Furlanetto, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. From December 11, 2010.

Friday, April 3
Bizet’s Les Pêcheurs de Perles
Starring Diana Damrau, Matthew Polenzani, and Mariusz Kwiecien, conducted by Gianandrea Noseda. From January 16, 2016.

Saturday, April 4
Verdi’s Macbeth
Starring Anna Netrebko, Joseph Calleja, Željko Lučić, and René Pape, conducted by Fabio Luisi. From October 11, 2014.

Sunday, April 5
Bellini’s Norma
Starring Sondra Radvanovsky, Joyce DiDonato, Joseph Calleja, and Matthew Rose, conducted by Carlo Rizzi. From October 7, 2017

More info at metopera.org.

March 30, 2020
Free Met Opera Ring Cycle Streaming Now

A reminder that The Metropolitan Opera will stream the complete Ring Cycle, from its “Live in HD” series, beginning with “Das Rheingold” tonight at 7:30 p.m. The opera (or music drama) will be made available through 6:30 tomorrow evening. Then it’s “Die Walküre” for 23 hours, and so on and so forth. The Met is offering free streaming of its repertoire of encore broadcasts, for as long as the house remains closed. You’ll find more information at metopera.org.

March 24, 2020
Free Wagner Ring Cycle Met Opera HD Streams

Ho jo to ho!

Last week, I posted about The Metropolitan Opera’s free “Live in HD” broadcasts, which the Met has pledged to offer for the duration of the house’s closure due to the Coronavirus pandemic. True to its word, the Met is ladeling out a full week of Wagner, starting tonight, including a complete Ring cycle. Of course, it’s the current, ridiculous seesaw production, and not the classic Otto Schenck. But hey, Wagner is Wagner.

Here are this week’s offerings:

Monday: Tristan und Isolde
Conducted by Simon Rattle, starring Nina Stemme, Ekaterina Gubanova, Stuart Skelton, Evgeny Nikitin, and René Pape. Transmitted live on October 8, 2016.

Tuesday: Das Rheingold
Conducted by James Levine, starring Wendy Bryn Harmer, Stephanie Blythe, Richard Croft, Gerhard Siegel, Dwayne Croft, Bryn Terfel, Eric Owens, and Hans-Peter König. Transmitted live on October 9, 2010.

Wednesday: Die Walküre
Conducted by James Levine, starring Deborah Voigt, Eva-Maria Westbroek, Stephanie Blythe, Jonas Kaufmann, Bryn Terfel, and Hans-Peter König. Transmitted live on May 14, 2011.

Thursday: Siegfried
Conducted by Fabio Luisi, starring Deborah Voigt, Hunter Morris, Gerhard Siegel, Bryn Terfel, and Eric Owens. Transmitted live on November 5, 2011.

Friday: Götterdämmerung
Conducted by Fabio Luisi, starring Deborah Voigt, Wendy Bryn Harmer, Waltraud Meier, Jay Hunter Morris, Iain Paterson, Eric Owens, and Hans-Peter König. Transmitted live on February 11, 2012.

Saturday: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Conducted by James Levine, starring Annette Dasch, Johan Botha, Paul Appleby, and Michael Volle. Transmitted live on December 13, 2014.

Sunday: Tannhäuser
Conducted by James Levine, starring Eva-Marie Westbroek, Michelle DeYoung, Johan Botha, Peter Mattei, and Gunther Groissböck. Transmitted live on October 31, 2015.

The operas will stream free from 7:30 in the evening to 6:30 the following afternoon. (Tchaikovsky’s “Eugene Onegin,” with Dmitri Hvorostovsky and Renée Fleming, is still available through 6:30 today.)

You’ll find more information and a complete schedule at metopera.org.

March 23, 2020
Free Opera Online Met Streams Encore HD

Everything is cancelled. But nature abhors a vacuum, so some musicians, ensembles, and organizations (Yo-Yo Ma, Joyce DiDonato, the Philadelphia Orchestra) have been stepping up to offer free concerts and recitals online.

The latest is The Metropolitan Opera, which will share select encore “Live in HD” presentations for the duration of the house’s closure, streamed at its website, metopera.org. The series will begin tonight with Elīna Garanča as an especially sultry Carmen. But for me the pick of the bunch for this first week is Renée Fleming and the late Dmitri Hvorostovsky in “Eugene Onegin,” which will be made available on Sunday.

The operas stream free from 7:30 in the evening to 3:30 the following afternoon. You’ll find more information and a complete schedule when visiting metopera.org.

March 16, 2020

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