Nightly Met Opera Streams by the Metropolitan Opera in New York (March 2021)

The Met has announced a special program of Nightly Met Opera Streams for the coming week. The viewers choice program will feature outstanding productions from the last 14 years of Live in HD and television broadcasts, starring the greatest opera singers.

Each production is available for 23 hours, from 13:30 CET (19:30 CET) to 0:30 the following day. The streams are available on metopera.com and all Met Opera on Demand apps.

More information can be found here and the program below:

Monday, March 15 – Offenbachs Les Contes d’Hoffmann: Starring Anna Netrebko, Kathleen Kim, Ekaterina Gubanova, Kate Lindsey, Joseph Calleja, and Alan Held, conducted by James Levine. Production by Bartlett Sher. From December 19, 2009.

Tuesday, March 16 – Puccinis La Fanciulla del West: Starring Eva-Maria Westbroek, Jonas Kaufmann, and Željko Lučić, conducted by Marco Armiliato. Production by Giancarlo Del Monaco. From October 27, 2018.

Wednesday, March 17 – DonizettiAnna Bolena: Starring Anna Netrebko, Ekaterina Gubanova, Tamara Mumford, Stephen Costello, and Ildar Abdrazakov, conducted by Marco Armiliato. Production by Sir David McVicar. From October 15, 2011.

Thursday, March 18 – Philip Glasss Akhnaten: Starring Dísella Lárusdóttir, J’Nai Bridges, Anthony Roth Costanzo, Aaron Blake, Will Liverman, Richard Bernstein, and Zachary James, conducted by Karen Kamensek. Production by Phelim McDermott. From November 23, 2019.

Friday, March 19 – RossiniIl Barbiere di Siviglia: Starring Joyce DiDonato, Juan Diego Flórez, Peter Mattei, John Del Carlo, and John Relyea, conducted by Maurizio Benini. Production by Bartlett Sher. From March 24, 2007.

Saturday, March 20 – TchaikovskyEugene Onegin: Starring Renée Fleming, Ramón Vargas, and Dmitri Hvorostovsky, conducted by Valery Gergiev. Production by Robert Carsen. From February 24, 2007.

Sunday, March 21 – HandelAgrippina: Starring Brenda Rae, Joyce DiDonato, Kate Lindsey, Iestyn Davies, Duncan Rock, and Matthew Rose, conducted by Harry Bicket. Production by Sir David McVicar. From February 29, 2020.

The OSM appoints Kent Nagano Conductor Emeritus (February 2021)

The Orchestre symphonique de Montréal (OSM) is pleased and proud to announce that today, Kent Nagano receives the honorary title of Conductor Emeritus of the Orchestra. Appointed by the Board of Directors, he becomes the third Music Director of the OSM to receive this recognition after Wilfrid Pelletier and Zubin Mehta.

It is with deep feeling and great pride that I welcome the decision by the OSM’s Board of Directors to appoint me Conductor Emeritus of this great Orchestra. I am deeply moved by this decision. I wish to thank Lucien Bouchard, Madeleine Careau, all other members of the Board of Directors, as well as all my brilliant OSM colleagues for this honour, which even further strengthens my attachment toward Montreal and the province of Quebec.” — KENT NAGANOREAD MORE

Sonya Yoncheva on 27 February at 7PM CET from Kloster Schussenried with Met Stars Live in Concert (February 2021)

Soprano Sonya Yoncheva will perform a live concert on Saturday, February 27, 2021 at 7:00pm CET/1:00pm ET, from the Schussenried Cloister in southwest Germany as part of the Met Stars Live in Concert series. The program features a tour-de-force of arias from Verdi’s Aida and Il Trovatore; Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, La Bohème, and the rarely performed Le Villi; Dvořák’s Rusalka; and Handel’s Rinaldo. The full program is below. The recital will be streamed live via the Met website and will then be available on demand for 14 days. Yoncheva will perform from the Baroque library of the Schussenried Cloister, accompanied by Julien Quentin on piano.READ MORE

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