The weekly themes continue in the Metropolitan Opera’s series of of free nightly streams of performances from their archives. This week features Giacomo Puccini operas including Tosca, La Bohème, Madama Butterfly, and Turandot.
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] There is also loads of supplementary information on the operas at this site.
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Schedule for Week 27 : September 21 – September 27
Monday, September 21
Puccini’s La Rondine
Conducted by Marco Armiliato; starring Angela Gheorghiu, Lisette Oropesa, Roberto Alagna, Marius Brenciu, and Samuel Ramey.
(From a live transmission on January 10, 2009)
Tuesday, September 22
Puccini’s La Fanciulla del West
Starring Deborah Voigt, Marcello Giordani, and Lucio Gallo, conducted by Nicola Luisotti. (January 8, 2011)
Wednesday, September 23
Puccini’s Manon Lescaut
Starring Kristine Opolais, Roberto Alagna, Massimo Cavalletti, and Brindley Sherratt, conducted by Fabio Luisi
(March 5, 2016)
Thursday, September 24
Puccini’s Madama Butterfly
Starring Patricia Racette, Maria Zifchak, Marcello Giordani, and Dwayne Croft, conducted by Patrick Summers.
(March 7, 2009)
Friday, September 25
Puccini’s Tosca
Starring Sonya Yoncheva, Vittorio Grigolo, and Željko Lučić, conducted by Emmanuel Villaume
(January 27, 2018)
Saturday, September 26
Puccini’s Turandot
Starring Christine Goerke, Eleonora Buratto, Yusif Eyvazov, and James Morris, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin.
(October 12, 2019)
Sunday, September 27
Puccini’s La Bohème
Starring Angela Gheorghiu, Ainhoa Arteta, Ramón Vargas, Ludovic Tézier, Quinn Kelsey, Oren Gradus, and Paul Plishka, conducted by Nicola Luisotti
(April 5, 2008)
