Now’s your chance to finally “go to the Opera”! Even though it’s closed…
Though the Metropolitan Opera is shut down, they will continue to stream performances every night this week (and for the weeks to come)!
General Manager Peter Gelb announced the Met will offer a nightly series of free web streams that will bring opera to audiences “while the house is dark.”
“Beginning tonight and continuing each day for the duration of the Met’s closure, an encore presentation from the company’s Live in HD series will be made available from 7:30PM ET until 3:30PM ET the following day,” they said on Twitter.
The performance will be available online at www.metopera.org/season/on-demand/, as well as all Met Opera on Demand apps, including IOS, Android, Apple TV, Amazon Fire devices, Samsung TV, and Roku.
This week’s schedule is:
- 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.
Lincoln Center will also be following suit with their #LiveFromLincolnCenter series. You can watch gorgeous chamber music concerts on their Facebook page here!
featured image source: Photo by Richard Termine / Met Opera