As we sadly mentioned last week, it has been announced by Metropolitan Opera’s Peter Gelb 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—below is the schedule for Week 14 of the Metropolitan Opera’s free streaming of performances from their Live In HD series. The historical performance of note this week is Thursday’s La Forza del Destino with Leontyne Price, Giuseppe Giacomini, Leo Nucci, and Bonaldo Giaiotti, and conducted by James Levine.
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 14 – June 21
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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Monday, June 15
Rossini: Armida
Starring Renée Fleming, Lawrence Brownlee, John Osborn, Barry Banks, and Kobie van Rensburg, conducted by Riccardo Frizza.
(May 1, 2010)
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Tuesday, June 16
Rossini: Semiramide
Starring Angela Meade, Elizabeth DeShong, Javier Camarena, Ildar Abdrazakov, and Ryan Speedo Green, conducted by Maurizio Benini
(March 10, 2018)
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Wednesday, June 17
Gluck: Iphigénie en Tauride
Starring Susan Graham, Plácido Domingo, and Paul Groves, conducted by Patrick Summers
(February 26, 2011)
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Thursday, June 18
Giuseppe Verdi: La Forza del Destino
Starring Leontyne Price, Giuseppe Giacomini, Leo Nucci, and Bonaldo Giaiotti, conducted by James Levine.
(March 24, 1984)
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Friday, June 19
Philip Glass: Akhnaten
Starring Dísella Lárusdóttir, J’Nai Bridges, Anthony Roth Costanzo, Aaron Blake, Will Liverman, Richard Bernstein, and Zachary James, conducted by Karen Kamensek.
(November 23, 2019)
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Saturday, June 20
Philip Glass: Satyagraha
Starring Rachelle Durkin, Richard Croft, Kim Josephson, and Alfred Walker, conducted by Dante Anzolini
(November 19, 2011)
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Sunday, June 21
Verdi: La Traviata
Starring Sonya Yoncheva, Michael Fabiano, and Thomas Hampson, conducted by Nicola Luisotti
(March 11, 2017)
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