For opera fans, the Metropolitan Opera’s free streaming of a performance each evening from their archives has made the ordeal quite a bit more tolerable. Amazingly, this week will be WEEK 20 of this routine—a routine that most will probably be comfortable with by now. This week features some notable productions, including the 2011 Lucia di Lammermoor and three Verdi operas, Il Trovatore, Ernani, and Rigoletto, the latter being a 1977 production starring Ileana Cotrubas and Placido Domingo.
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Schedule for Week 20: July 27 – August 2
Monday, July 27
Gaetano Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor
Starring Natalie Dessay, Joseph Calleja, Ludovic Tézier, and Kwangchul Youn, conducted by Patrick Summers
(March 19, 2011)
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Tuesday, July 28
Giacomo Puccini: Tosca
Starring Karita Mattila, Marcelo Álvarez, and George Gagnidze, conducted by Joseph Colaneri.
(October 10, 2009)
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Wednesday, July 29
Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto
Starring Ileana Cotrubas, Plácido Domingo, and Cornell MacNeil, conducted by James Levine. (November 7, 1977)
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Thursday, July 30
Verdi: Il Trovatore
Starring Sondra Radvanovsky, Dolora Zajick, Marcelo Álvarez, and Dmitri Hvorostovsky, conducted by Marco Armiliato
(April 30, 2011)
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Friday, July 31
Antonin Dvořák: Rusalka
Starring Kristine Opolais, Katarina Dalayman, Jamie Barton, Brandon Jovanovich, and Eric Owens, conducted by Mark Elder
(February 25, 2017)
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Saturday, August 1
Giuseppe Verdi: Ernani
Starring Leona Mitchell, Luciano Pavarotti, Sherrill Milnes, and Ruggero Raimondi, conducted by James Levine
(December 17, 1983)
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Sunday, August 2
Richard Wagner: Die Walküre
Starring Christine Goerke, Eva-Maria Westbroek, Jamie Barton, Stuart Skelton, Greer Grimsley, and Günther Groissböck, conducted by Philippe Jordan
(March 30, 2019)
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