The Metropolitan Opera has revealed the programming for its third week of “Night Met Opera Streams. After a week in which audiences will be privy to productions of operas by Wagner, the third week will feature a wider range of repertory. The Met also announced that streams would be available for 23 hours after the initial stream, up from the {…}
The Opéra National de Paris has announced its next batch of streaming offerings. The company will showcase “Don Giovanni” in a production by Ivo van Hove starting on March 23, 2020. It will be available on the website until March 29. On April 6, the company will offer up “Il Barbiere di Siviglia;” audiences can catch the production until April {…}
(Credit: Fay Fox) Austin Opera is offering up its own unique streaming service during this time when people are engaged with social distancing to contain the spread of COVID-19. Each Friday, the company will offer up a 30-minute recital of music recorded live in their rehearsal hall. The videos will be sent out live on Faccebook and YouTube, though there {…}
The Opéra Comique has announced a daily streaming service. The company will stream one opera per day with a program that includes productions of “Macbeth Underworld,” “L’Inondation,” “Ercole Amante,” “Le Comte Ory,” “La Nonne sanglante,” “Le Timbre d’argent,” “Orphée et Eurydice,” “Manon,” “Miranda” and many other surprises. The streaming service will begin on March 25. Additionally on April 15 through {…}
The Teatro Real is teaming up with a number of star singers to create the #OperaFest The festival will begin on March 21 and run through March 22 with each artist performing digitally via Instagram Live. The artists will perform songs and arias from a diverse array of repertoire. Among the singers who are scheduled to join the concert include {…}
The Teatro alla Scala is teaming up with La RAI to stream operas starting March 23 through April 21. The company announced that RaiPlay will showcase 30 productions including four ballets, that were presented from 2008 through 2019. The productions will remain available for one month On April 6, Rai5 will broadcast an opera from Monday to Friday. On Wednesdays there {…}
Plácido Domingo has resigned from the American Guild of Musical Artists and has donated $500,000 to a fund that helps opera employees in crisis due to the coronavirus outbreak. The money will also go to sexual harassment eradication programs. With the resignation, the union announced that all charges were withdrawn. The resignation comes after both AGMA and the LA Opera {…}
Mezzo-sopranos Teresa Berganza and Christa Ludwig shared a great deal in common. In addition to both being born on March 16, albeit of different years, they both practically made all their major debuts as Cherubino (Met Opera debuts, Vienna State Opera debuts). So in celebration of these two historic singers, here is a short little quiz, a lightning round if {…}
Over the last few years, Sarah Vautour has been slowly but surely making herself a major force in the Los Angeles Opera scene. The soprano has been a young artist at the Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program since 2018 making her debut with the LA Opera under the baton of James Conlon and taking on the role of Papagena in “The {…}
Ariel Artists has announced the Robinson Recitals, a unique competition aimed at providing social-distancing video-concerts for those in retirement and nursing homes. The competition, which is being organized by a Boston-based group of infectious disease doctors, epidemiologists, and other health experts, will offer $500 to the top three concert performance submissions. Musicians of all kinds are allowed to submit a 45-minute {…}
Pacific Opera Project is joining a number of other opera companies in bringing opera to the public online. On March 19, 2020, the company loaded up its production of “La Traviata” on its official YouTube channel. Afterward, it put up its production of “The Barber of Seville” before loading up “Le Nozze di Figaro” on March 20. The aim is {…}