Intriguing variety is the key to Week 16 of the Metropolitan Opera’s free nightly streaming of past performances. Check out the new and old Donizetti—La Fille du Régiment from last year and a 40-year old performance of Don Pasquale with Beverly Sills. Mozart’s Don Giovanni contrasts with Shostakovich’s The Nose on Wednesday evening.
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 June 28 – July 5
Sunday, June 28
Mozart: Die Zauberflöte
Starring Golda Schultz, Kathryn Lewek, Charles Castronovo, Markus Werba, Christian Van Horn, and René Pape, conducted by James Levine
(October 14, 2017)
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Monday, June 29
Gaetano Donizetti: La Fille du Régiment
Starring Pretty Yende, Stephanie Blythe, Javier Camarena, Maurizio Muraro, and Kathleen Turner, conducted by Enrique Mazzola.
(March 2, 2019)
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Tuesday, June 30
Richard Wagner: Die Walküre
Starring Hildegard Behrens, Jessye Norman, Christa Ludwig, Gary Lakes, James Morris, and Kurt Moll, conducted by James Levine
(April 8, 1989)
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Wednesday, July 1
Dmetri Shostakovich: The Nose
Starring Andrey Popov, Alexander Lewis, and Paulo Szot, conducted by Pavel Smelkov
(October 26, 2013)
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Thursday, July 2
George Bizet: Carmen
Starring Anita Hartig, Anita Rachvelishvili, Aleksandrs Antonenko, and Ildar Abdrazakov, conducted by Pablo Heras-Casado
(November 1, 2014)
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Friday, July 3
Mozart: Don Giovanni
Starring Marina Rebeka, Barbara Frittoli, Mojca Erdmann, Ramón Vargas, Mariusz Kwiecien, Luca Pisaroni, and Štefan Kocán, conducted by Fabio Luisi
(October 29, 2011)
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Saturday, July 4
Gaetano Donizetti: Don Pasquale
Starring Beverly Sills, Alfredo Kraus, Håkan Hagegård, and Gabriel Bacquier, conducted by Nicola Rescigno
(January 11, 1979)
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Sunday, July 5
Gioachino Rossini: La Donna del Lago
Starring Joyce DiDonato, Daniela Barcellona, Juan Diego Flórez, John Osborn, and Oren Gradus, conducted by Michele Mariotti
(March 14, 2015)
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