Last year, as tenor Javier Camarena was completing his run of performances in Donizetti’s “The Daughter of the Regiment,” he encored his sequence of high C’s in “Ah! mes amis” – bringing them to a total of 18 (!) and whipping the audience at New York’s Metropolitan Opera into an ecstatic frenzy. Camarena is one of only three tenors since 1942 to have broken the Met’s no-encore policy. (The others were Luciano Pavarotti and Juan Diego Flórez.) This guy just loves to sing.
Catch Camarena in action on tonight’s Met HD Encore stream (which will be available until 6 p.m. tomorrow EDT). Also in the cast: Pretty Yende, Stephanie Blythe, and actress Kathleen Turner.
Each opera streams for 24 hours at metopera.org. Here’s a link to this week’s schedule, with teasers and bonus materials:
https://www.metopera.org/user-information/nightly-met-opera-streams/week-16/
Monday, June 29
Donizetti’s La Fille du Régiment
Starring Pretty Yende, Stephanie Blythe, Javier Camarena, Maurizio Muraro, and Kathleen Turner, conducted by Enrique Mazzola. From March 2, 2019.
Tuesday, June 30
Wagner’s Die Walküre
Starring Hildegard Behrens, Jessye Norman, Christa Ludwig, Gary Lakes, James Morris, and Kurt Moll, conducted by James Levine. From April 8, 1989.
Wednesday, July 1
Shostakovich’s The Nose
Starring Andrey Popov, Alexander Lewis, and Paulo Szot, conducted by Pavel Smelkov. From October 26, 2013.
Thursday, July 2
Bizet’s Carmen
Starring Anita Hartig, Anita Rachvelishvili, Aleksandrs Antonenko, and Ildar Abdrazakov, conducted by Pablo Heras-Casado. From November 1, 2014.
Friday, July 3
Mozart’s Don Giovanni
Starring Marina Rebeka, Barbara Frittoli, Mojca Erdmann, Ramón Vargas, Mariusz Kwiecien, Luca Pisaroni, and Štefan Kocán, conducted by Fabio Luisi. From October 29, 2011.
Saturday, July 4
Donizetti’s Don Pasquale
Starring Beverly Sills, Alfredo Kraus, Håkan Hagegård, and Gabriel Bacquier, conducted by Nicola Rescigno. From January 11, 1979.
Sunday, July 5
Rossini’s La Donna del Lago
Starring Joyce DiDonato, Daniela Barcellona, Juan Diego Flórez, John Osborn, and Oren Gradus, conducted by Michele Mariotti. From March 14, 2015.