Luciano Pavarotti, Kathleen Battle, Anna Netrebko, Rosalind Elias, Plácido Domingo Headline Metropolitan Opera Nightly Streams Week 23

For the 23rd straight week, the Metropolitan Opera will be presenting nightly streams. This week’s selections featuring more major works from the standard repertory with a couple of rare treats mixed in. Major opera stars like Anna Netrebko, Aprile Millo, Plácido Domingo, Renata Scotto, Luciano Pavarotti, and Kathleen Battle will be among the major headliners. Monday, August 17 – Puccini’s {…}

May 2, 2020

Adrianne Pieczonka, Phillip Addis Headline Brott Music Festival’s Online Streaming Program

(Credit: Bo Huang) The Brott Music Festival will present online concerts every Saturday night spanning a wide range of different musical genres. It all kicks off on May 2, 2020 and will ake place via Zoom and Facebook Live. “I am thrilled to engage, live and in real time, with audiences and the artists personally in a way that would {…}

Apr 14, 2020

Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Sonya Yoncheva, Renée Fleming Headline Week 6 of Metropolitan Opera Nightly Streams

(Credit: Ken Howard) The Metropolitan Opera has unveiled week 6 of its streaming service which features an all-star gala and six operas with such stars as Sonya Yoncheva, Anna Netrebko, Nina Stemme, Renée Fleming, Natalie Dessay, Joyce DiDonato, and Juan Diego Flórez, among others. Here is a breakdown. Monday, April 20 – Strauss’s Elektra Starring Nina Stemme, Adrianne Pieczonka, Waltraud Meier, {…}

Apr 13, 2020

Roberto Alagna, Anna Netrebko, Joyce DiDonato Headline Top 10 Operas to Stream This Week

We hope you are all doing well and holding up during these challenging times. Another week passes by but that means more opera streaming online. This week’s selections range from the standard repertory to unique new experiences spread across the world. Here are the top 10 operas we think you should check out this week. Madama Butterfly – Royal Swedish {…}

Mar 21, 2020

Anna Netrebko, Diana Damrau, Sondra Radvanovksy Headline Week 3 of Met Opera Nightly Streams

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 {…}

Mar 7, 2020

Teatro Real de Madrid 2019-20 Review: Die Walküre

(Credit: Javier del Real) The Teatro Real de Madrid continued its staging of Wagner’s tetralogy with the second, and arguably most popular installment, “Die Walküre.” The production features the same artistic-conducting team with Robert Carsen directing and Pablo Heras-Casado on the pit. Sadly, given that each opera of this cycle is being performed one season at a time, the casts {…}

Oct 7, 2019

Vienna State Opera 2019-20 Live Stream: Watch ‘Ariadne Auf Naxos’

(Credit: Bo Huang) On Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2019, the Vienna State Opera will live stream Richard Strauss’ “Ariadne Auf Naxos.” The opera, which will be performed in a production by Sven-Eric Bechtolf, will be conducted by Michael Boder and will star Hans Peter Kammerer, Jochen Schmeckenbecher, Kate Lindsey, Stephen Gould, Hila Fahima, and Adrianne Pieczonka. The stream kicks off at {…}

May 14, 2019

The Best Performances of the Met Opera’s 2018-19 Season

Another big season at the Metropolitan Opera has come and gone. The 2018-19 was a rather fascinating one from a repertory perspective, offering up a wide range of music from some of the greatest composers. The year wound up being a mixed bag of sorts from a quality standpoint with the best performances arguably taking place once the calendar turned {…}

May 9, 2019

Metropolitan Opera 2018-19 Review: Dialogues des Carmélites

In 2018-19, the Metropolitan Opera arguably saved the best for last. After opening the season with seeming inconsistency in terms of overall quality, the company seemed to get into the rhythm of things, producing a solid second half to the season that seemingly got better as we approached the end. And the company arguably reached the creative apex of its {…}

May 6, 2019

Watch Isabel Leonard in ‘Dialogues Des Carmélites’ Live in HD From Met Opera

The Met Opera will close its season and its 2018-19 Live in HD series with a performance of Poulenc’s “Dialogues des Carmélites.” The broadcast, which kicks off 11:55 a.m. Eastern time, will be headlined by Isabel Leonard in her second HD broadcast of the year. Leonard is now onto her seventh HD broadcast following appearances in “Roméo et Juliette,” “The {…}

Apr 11, 2019

Sonya Yoncheva, Plácido Domingo & Ermonela Jaho Highlight Teatro Real 2019-20 Season

The Teatro Real has announced its 2019-20 season featuring seven Teatro Real premieres and three Spanish premieres. Here is a look at what to expect. The season opens with Verdi’s “Don Carlo“ with Nicola Luisotti conducting a production by David McVicar. The opera returns after a 14 year absence with Francesco Meli, Andrea Carè, and Alfred Kim sharing the title {…}