If Saturday’s In-Home Gala was your first brush with the Metropolitan Opera’s free nightly streams, your appetite will probably be whetted for more. Amazingly, this will be Week 7 of the Metropolitan Opera’s free nightly streams. As before, a different encore presentation from the company’s Live in HD series is being made available for free streaming on the Met website, with each performance available for a period of 23 hours, from 7:30 p.m. EDT until 6:30 p.m. the following day. [https://www.metopera.org]
The streams are also available through the Met Opera on Demand apps for Apple, Amazon, and Roku devices and Samsung Smart TV. To access them without logging in, click “Browse and Preview” in the apps for connected TV, and “Explore the App” on tablets and mobile devices.
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Week 7 – Each stream becomes available at 7:30 p.m. EDT and remains accessible for on-demand viewing until 6:30 p.m. the following day.
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Sunday, April 26
Rossini: La Cenerentola
Starring Joyce DiDonato and Juan Diego Flórez, conducted by Fabio Luisi.
(May 10, 2014)
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Monday, April 27
Gaetano Donizetti: Anna Bolena
Starring Anna Netrebko, Ekaterina Gubanova, Stephen Costello, and Ildar Abdrazakov, conducted by Marco Armiliato.
(October 15, 2011)
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Tuesday, April 28
Gaetano Donizetti: Maria Stuarda
Starring Elza van den Heever, Joyce DiDonato, and Matthew Polenzani, conducted by Maurizio Benini.
(January 19, 2013)
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Wednesday, April 29
Gaetano Donizetti: Roberto Devereux
Starring Sondra Radvanovsky, Elīna Garanča, Matthew Polenzani, and Mariusz Kwiecien, conducted by Maurizio Benini.
(April 16, 2016)
Thursday, April 30
Nico Muhly: Marnie
Starring Isabel Leonard, Iestyn Davies, and Christopher Maltman, conducted by Roberto Spano.
(November 10, 2018)
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Friday, May 1
Viewers’ Choice – Verdi: Aida
Starring Leontyne Price, Fiorenza Cossotto, James McCracken, and Simon Estes, conducted by James Levine.
(Transmitted live on January 3, 1985)
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Saturday, May 2
Verdi: Luisa Miller
Starring Sonya Yoncheva, Piotr Beczała, and Plácido Domingo, conducted by Bertrand de Billy.
(April 14, 2018)
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Sunday, May 3
Borodin: Prince Igor
Starring Oksana Dyka, Anita Rachvelishvili, and Ildar Abdrazakov, conducted by Gianandrea Noseda.
(March 1, 2014)
