We’ve seen some amazing performances over the last 17 weeks of the Metropolitan Opera’s free nightly streaming of performances from their archives — and Week 18 will be no different. On Tuesday evening, a classic performance from 1981 becomes available for streaming, the production of Verdi’s La Traviata starring Ileana Cotrubas, Placido Domingo, and Cornell MacNeil. On Sunday, catch the 1982 performance of La Bohème with Teresa Stratas, Renata Scotto, and José Carreras. There’s also a recommended recent performance from this past January, streamed starting Thursday evening, of Alban Berg’s Wozzeck.
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 Week 18: July 12 – July 19
Sunday, July 12
Viewers’ Choice: Richard Wagner, Tristan und Isolde
Starring Jane Eaglen, Katarina Dalayman, Ben Heppner, Hans-Joachim Ketelsen, and René Pape, conducted by James Levine
(December 18, 1999)
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Monday, July 13
Giacomo Puccini: Manon Lescaut
Starring Kristine Opolais, Roberto Alagna, Massimo Cavalletti, and Brindley Sherratt, conducted by Fabio Luisi
(March 5, 2016)
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Tuesday, July 14
Giuseppe Verdi: La Traviata
Starring Ileana Cotrubaș, Plácido Domingo, and Cornell MacNeil, conducted by James Levine
(March 28, 1981)
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Wednesday, July 15
Giacomo Puccini: Turandot
Starring Maria Guleghina, Marina Poplavskaya, Marcello Giordani, and Samuel Ramey, conducted by Andria Nelsons
(November 7, 2009)
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Thursday, July 16
Alban Berg: Wozzeck
Starring Elza van den Heever, Tamara Mumford, Christopher Ventris, Gerhard Siegel, Andrew Staples, Peter Mattei, and Christian Van Horn, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin
(January 11, 2020)
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Friday, July 17
Rossini: La Cenerentola
Starring Elina Garanča, Lawrence Brownlee, Simone Alberghini, and John Relyea, conducted by Maurizio Benini
(May 9, 2009)
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Saturday, July 18
Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro
Starring Amanda Majeski, Marlis Petersen, Isabel Leonard, Peter Mattei, and Ildar Abdrazakov, conducted by James Levine
(October 18, 2014)
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Sunday, July 19
Puccini: La Bohème
Starring Teresa Stratas, Renata Scotto, José Carreras, Richard Stilwell, and James Morris, conducted by James Levine
(January 16, 1982)
