This week will be Week 9 of the Metropolitan Opera’s free streaming of performances from their Live In HD series. This week’s historic performance is from November 13, 1982: Lucia di Lammermoor with Joan Sutherland, Alfredo Kraus, Pablo Elvira, and Paul Plishka, conducted by Richard Bonynge.
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 10 – May 17
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)
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Monday, May 11
Jules Massenet: Werther
Starring Lisette Oropesa, Sophie Koch, Jonas Kaufmann, and David Bižić, conducted by Alain Altinoglu.
(March 15, 2014)
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Tuesday, May 12
Thomas Adès: The Tempest
Starring Audrey Luna, Isabel Leonard, Alek Shrader, Alan Oke, and Simon Keenlyside, conducted by Thomas Adès.
(November 10, 2012)
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Wednesday, May 13
Richard Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos
Starring Jessye Norman, Kathleen Battle, and Tatiana Troyanos, conducted by James Levine. (March 12, 1988)
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Thursday, May 14
Benjamin Britten: Peter Grimes
Starring Patricia Racette, Anthony Dean Griffey, and Anthony Michaels-Moore, conducted by Sir Donald Runnicles
(March 15, 2008)
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Friday, May 15
Viewers’ Choice — Gaetano Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor
Starring Joan Sutherland, Alfredo Kraus, Pablo Elvira, and Paul Plishka, conducted by Richard Bonynge.
(Historic performance from November 13, 1982)
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Saturday, May 16
Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto
Starring Diana Damrau, Oksana Volkova, Piotr Beczała, and Željko Lučić, conducted by Michele Mariotti.
(February 16, 2013)
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Sunday, May 17
Giuseppe Verdi: Nabucco
Starring Liudmyla Monastyrska, Jamie Barton, Russell Thomas, Plácido Domingo, and Dmitry Belosselskiy, conducted by James Levine.
(January 7, 2017)
