The Metropolitan Opera New York City.
NEW YORK A day after canceling upcoming live performances due to concerns around the coronavirus, the Metropolitan Opera announced that it would stream encore presentations from the award-winning Live in HD series of cinema transmissions on the company website for the duration of the closure.
The new offering will begin on Monday, March 16 with the 2010 HD performance of Bizet's "Carmen," conducted by Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin and starring El+na Garana in the title role and Roberto Alagna as Don José.
All Nightly Met Opera Streams will begin at 7:30 p.m. and will remain available via the homepage of metopera.org for 20 hours. The homepage link will open the performance on the Met Opera on Demand streaming service. The performance will also be viewable on all Met Opera on Demand apps.
We'd like to provide some grand opera solace to opera lovers in these extraordinarily difficult times, Met General Manager Peter Gelb said in a release. Every night, we'll be offering a different complete operatic gem from our collection of HD presentations from the past 14 years.
Here is the schedule for the first week of streams:
Monday, March 16 Bizet's Carmen
Conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, starring El+na Garana and Roberto Alagna. Transmitted live on Jan. 16, 2010.
Tuesday, March 17 Puccini's La Bohème
Conducted by Nicola Luisotti, starring Angela Gheorghiu and Ramón Vargas. Transmitted live on April 5, 2008.
Wednesday, March 18 Verdi's Il Trovatore
Conducted by Marco Armiliato, starring Anna Netrebko, Dolora Zajick, Yonghoon Lee, and Dmitri Hvorostovsky. Transmitted live on Oct. 3, 2015.
Thursday, March 19 Verdi's La Traviata
Conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, starring Diana Damrau, Juan Diego Flórez, and Quinn Kelsey. Transmitted live on Dec.15, 2018.
Friday, March 20 Donizetti's La Fille du Régiment
Conducted by Marco Armiliato, starring Natalie Dessay and Juan Diego Flórez. Transmitted live on April 26, 2008.
Saturday, March 21 Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor
Conducted by Marco Armiliato, starring Anna Netrebko, Piotr BeczaBa, and Mariusz Kwiecien. Transmitted live on Feb. 7, 2009.
Sunday, March 22 Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin
Conducted by Valery Gergiev, starring Renée Fleming, Ramón Vargas, and Dmitri Hvorostovsky. Transmitted live on Feb. 24, 2007.
