It is Week 19 of the Metropolitan Opera’s series of FREE streamed performances from their archives. Two classic performances are featured this week—Wagner’s Tannhäuser from 1982 and Verdi’s Falstaff from 1992. And, there’s more Rossini, Verdi, Gounod, Puccini, and Strauss.
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 19: July 20 – July 26
Monday, July 20
Giacomo Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia
Starring Isabel Leonard, Lawrence Brownlee, Christopher Maltman, and Maurizio Muraro, conducted by Michele Mariotti
(November 11, 2014)
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Tuesday, July 21
Richard Wagner: Tannhäuser
Starring Éva Marton, Tatiana Troyanos, Richard Cassilly, Bernd Weikl, and John Macurdy, conducted by James Levine.
(December 20, 1982)
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Wednesday, July 22
Giuseppe Verdi: Macbeth
Starring Maria Guleghina, Dimitri Pittas, Željko Lučić, and John Relyea, conducted by James Levine
(January 12, 2008)
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Thursday, July 23
Charles Gounod: Roméo et Juliette
Starring Anna Netrebko, Roberto Alagna, Nathan Gunn, and Robert Lloyd, conducted by Plácido Domingo
(December 15, 2007)
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Friday, July 24
Giuseppe Verdi: Falstaff
Starring Mirella Freni, Barbara Bonney, Marilyn Horne, Bruno Pola, and Paul Plishka, conducted by James Levine
(October 10, 1992)
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Saturday, July 25
Richard Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier
Starring Renée Fleming, Christine Schäfer, Susan Graham, and Kristinn Sigmundsson, conducted by Edo de Waart
(January 9, 2010)
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Sunday, July 26
Puccini: La Fanciulla del West
Starring Eva-Maria Westbroek, Jonas Kaufmann, and Željko Lučić, conducted by Marco Armiliato
(October 27, 2018)
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