No complaints will be coming from me for staying in, staying safe, and catching this Week 8 of the Metropolitan Opera’s free nightly streams. This week’s schedule has a few diversions from the usual: a 1977 performance of Puccini’s La Bohème with Renata Scotto and Luciano Pavarotti, conducted by James Levine, and an airing of the documentary by Susan Froemke, The Opera House, concerning the creation and 1966 opening of the new Met at Lincoln Center. A different streaming begins each evening at 7:30 PM from the Met Opera website and is available for 23 hours until 6:30 PM EDT the following day. [https://www.metopera.org]
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Schedule for May 3 – May 10
Sunday, May 3
Borodin: Prince Igor
Starring Oksana Dyka, Anita Rachvelishvili, and Ildar Abdrazakov, conducted by Gianandrea Noseda.
(March 1, 2014)
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Monday, May 4
Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro
Starring Renée Fleming, Cecilia Bartoli, Susanne Mentzer, Dwayne Croft, and Sir Bryn Terfel, conducted by James Levine.
(November 11, 1998)
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Tuesday, May 5
Thomas: Hamlet
Starring Marlis Petersen, Jennifer Larmore, Simon Keenlyside, and James Morris, conducted by Louis Langrée.
(March 27, 2010)
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Wednesday, May 6
Saariaho: L’Amour de Loin
Starring Susanna Phillips, Tamara Mumford, and Eric Owens, conducted by Susanna Mälkki
(December 10, 2016)
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Thursday, May 7
Strauss: Capriccio
Starring Renée Fleming, Sarah Connolly, Joseph Kaiser, Russell Braun, Morten Frank Larsen, and Peter Rose, conducted by Sir Andrew Davis.
(April 23, 2011)
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Friday, May 8
Viewers’ Choice: Puccini – La Bohème
Starring Renata Scotto and Luciano Pavarotti, conducted by James Levine.
(March 15, 1977)
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Saturday, May 9
The Opera House
A 2017 feature-length documentary by Susan Froemke about the creation and 1966 opening of the new Met at Lincoln Center
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Sunday, May 10
Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci (Mascagni and Leoncavallo)
Cavalleria Rusticana: Starring Eva-Maria Westbroek, Marcelo Álvarez, and George Gagnidze.
Pagliacci: Starring Patricia Racette, Marcelo Álvarez, and George Gagnidze.
Conducted by Fabio Luisi.
(April 25, 2015)
