Metropolitan Opera offers free streaming of past "Met Live in HD" performances

[JimGinPA]

https://www.stltoday.com/entertainment/arts-and-theatre/culture-club/metropolitan-opera-offers-free-streaming-of-past-met-live-in/article_45fa5723-6d50-509b-acec-2640db926771.html

The Metropolitan Opera, like most other companies, has closed down as the COVID-19 pandemic rages, but the company is offering something to make up for it: Free streaming of past "Met Live in HD" performances.

Only the first week has been announced so far, but it's a good one. Here's the schedule:

Monday, March 16 – Bizet’s Carmen

Conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, starring Elīna Garanča and Roberto Alagna. Transmitted live on January 16, 2010.

Tuesday, March 17 – Puccini’s La Bohème

Conducted by Nicola Luisotti, starring Angela Gheorghiu and Ramón Vargas. Transmitted live on April 5, 2008.

Wednesday, March 18 – Verdi’s Il Trovatore

Conducted by Marco Armiliato, starring Anna Netrebko, Dolora Zajick, Yonghoon Lee, and Dmitri Hvorostovsky. Transmitted live on October 3, 2015.

Thursday, March 19 – Verdi’s La Traviata

Conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, starring Diana Damrau, Juan Diego Flórez, and Quinn Kelsey. Transmitted live on December 15, 2018.

Friday, March 20 – Donizetti’s La Fille du Régiment

Conducted by Marco Armiliato, starring Natalie Dessay and Juan Diego Flórez. Transmitted live on April 26, 2008.

Saturday, March 21 – Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor

Conducted by Marco Armiliato, starring Anna Netrebko, Piotr Beczała, and Mariusz Kwiecien. Transmitted live on February 7, 2009.

Sunday, March 22 – Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin

Conducted by Valery Gergiev, starring Renée Fleming, Ramón Vargas, and Dmitri Hvorostovsky. Transmitted live on February 24, 2007.

All “Nightly Met Opera Streams” will begin at 7:30 p.m. EDT, and will be available on the company's homepage (metopera.org) for 20 hours thereafter. The homepage link will open the performance on the "Met Opera on Demand" streaming service, and be viewable on all "Met Opera on Demand" apps.

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[MyOwnPeace]

1. Well,

THIS is gonna' be better than watching more old re-runs of Judge Judy!

Thank you!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. I like the idea but I wish the repertoire were more interesting.

Those are all the boring old opera warhorses. If they were to broadcast Don Giovanni or The Marriage of Figaro (or any other Mozart), or Boris Godunov or Wozzeck or Lulu or some of the interesting new stuff like The Exterminating Angel I'd tune in. If they rebroadcast Agrippina from this season, that's a must-see; I just saw that in a theatre in HD and it was fabulous. Was going to go to Der Fliegende Hollander this past weekend but that got canceled.

Verdi? Donizetti? Meh. I might tune in for Eugene Onegin; it's more interesting and Renee Fleming is in it.