This past week, Metropolitan Opera General Manager Peter Gelb announced that due to the ongoing Covid-19 crisis the Met was cancelling the fall months of the 2020-21 season. Their tentative plans now call for a re-opening on December 31, 2020 with a special Gala. There are a number of consequences to this re-scheduling including the postponement of new productions, substitutions for previously announced productions, curtain time and cast changes, and a shortened Live In HD season. Click here for Gelb’s explanations of what the re-vamped season will entail.
In the meantime—it is now Week 13 of the Metropolitan Opera’s free streaming of performances from their Live In HD series. The popular At-Home Gala returns for a two-day encore screening on Friday and Saturday, joining Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta, Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito, Humperdink’s Hansel and Gretel, among others.
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]
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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Schedule for June 7 – June 14
Sunday, June 7
Massenet: Thaïs
Starring Renée Fleming, Michael Schade, and Thomas Hampson, conducted by Jesús López-Cobos
(December 20, 2008)
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Monday, June 8
Mozart: La Clemenza di Tito
Starring Lucy Crowe, Barbara Frittoli, Elīna Garanča, Kate Lindsey, and Giuseppe Filianoti, conducted by Harry Bicket.
(December 1, 2012)
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Tuesday, June 9
Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta and Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle
Starring Anna Netrebko and Piotr Beczała in Iolanta, and Nadja Michael and Mikhail Petrenko in Bluebeard’s Castle, conducted by Valery Gergiev
(February 14, 2015)
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Wednesday, June 10
Humperdinck: Hansel and Gretel
Starring Christine Schäfer, Alice Coote, Rosalind Plowright, Philip Langridge, and Alan Held, conducted by Vladimir Jurowski
(January 1, 2008)
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Thursday, June 11
John Corigliano: The Ghosts of Versailles
Starring Teresa Stratas, Renée Fleming, Marilyn Horne, Graham Clark, Gino Quilico, and Håkan Hagegård, conducted by James Levine
(January 10, 1992)
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Friday, June 12, and Saturday, June 13
At-Home Gala (Encore Screening)
This is a re-broadcast of the recent At-Home Gala that featured more than 40 singers and members of the Met Orchestra and Chorus perform virtually from their homes around the world. Introduction and hosting by General Manager Peter Gelb and Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin.
(April 25, 2020)
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Sunday, June 14
Handel: Rodelinda
Starring Renée Fleming, Stephanie Blythe, Andreas Scholl, Iestyn Davies, Joseph Kaiser, and Shenyang, conducted by Harry Bicket
(December 3, 2011)
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