This week is Comedy Week for the Metropolitan Opera’s series of free nightly performance streamings from its archives. Naturally, Rossini is well represented, but you’ll also find the recent production of Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier and a 1992 production of Verdi’s Falstaff.
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 a ton of supplementary information on the operas at this site.
The streams are also available through the Met Opera on Demand apps for Apple, Amazon, and Roku devices and Samsung Smart TV. To access them without logging in, click “Browse and Preview” in the apps for connected TV, and “Explore the App” on tablets and mobile devices.
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Schedule for Week 32 : October 19 – 25 (Comedies)
Monday, October 19
Giacomo Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia
Starring Joyce DiDonato, Juan Diego Flórez, Peter Mattei, John Del Carlo, and John Relyea, conducted by Maurizio Benini
(March 24, 2007)
Tuesday, October 20
Franz Lehár: The Merry Widow
Starring Renée Fleming, Kelli O’Hara, Nathan Gunn, Alek Shrader, and Thomas Allen, conducted by Sir Andrew Davis
(January 17, 2015)
Wednesday, October 21
Mozart: Così fan tutte
Starring Amanda Majeski, Serena Malfi, Kelli O’Hara, Ben Bliss, Adam Plachetka, and Christopher Maltman, conducted by David Robertson
(March 31, 2018)
Thursday, October 22
Rossini: La Cenerentola
Starring Cecilia Bartoli, Ramón Vargas, Simone Alaimo, and Alessandro Corbelli, conducted by James Levine
(October 27, 1997)
Friday, October 23
Giuseppe Verdi: Falstaff
Starring Mirella Freni, Barbara Bonney, Marilyn Horne, Bruno Pola, and Paul Plishka, conducted by James Levine.
(October 10, 1992)
Saturday, October 24
Rossini: Le Comte Ory
Starring Diana Damrau, Joyce DiDonato, Susanne Resmark, Juan Diego Flórez, Stéphane Degout, and Michele Pertusi, conducted by Maurizio Benini
(April 9, 2011)
Sunday, October 25
Richard Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier
Starring Renée Fleming, Elīna Garanča, Erin Morley, Matthew Polenzani, Marcus Brück, and Günther Groissböck, conducted by Sebastian Weigle
(May 13, 2017)
