Today’s topic is free streaming of Metropolitan Opera House’s past performances. Metropolitan Opera House has been providing free streaming service of their opera since mid-March of 2020. Free streaming is limited to one title each day. Title is pre-selected. Title is pre-selected. Program for the last week, Week 71 (July 19, 2021 – July 25, 2021) has been announced.
Contents
- 1. Met Opera Live in HD
- 2. Dates and titles of the Operas which are Available for Free Streaming
- Week 1（March 16, 2020～March 22, 2020）
- Week 2（March 23, 2020～March 29, 2020）(Wagner Week)
- Week 3（March 30, 2020～April 5, 2020）
- Week 4（April 6, 2020～April 12, 2020）
- Week 5（April 13, 2020～April 19, 2020）
- Week 6（April 20, 2020～April 26, 2020）
- Week 7（April 27, 2020～May 3, 2020）
- Week 8（May 4, 2020～May 10, 2020）
- Week 9（May 11, 2020～May 17, 2020）
- Week 10（May 18, 2020～May 24, 2020）
- Week 11（May 25, 2020～May 31, 2020）
- Week 12（June 1, 2020～June 7, 2020）
- Week 13（June 8, 2020～June 14, 2020）
- Week 14（June 15, 2020～June 21, 2020）
- Week 15（June 22, 2020～June 29, 2020）
- Week 16（June 29, 2020～July 5, 2020）
- Week 17（July 6, 2020～July, 12, 2020）
- Week 18（July 13, 2020～July 19, 2020）
- Week 19 (July 20, 2020 – July 26, 2020)
- Week 20 (July 27, 2020 – August 2, 2020)
- Week 21 (August 3, 2020 – August 9, 2020)
- Week 22 (August 10, 2020 – August 16, 2020)
- Week 23 (August 17, 2020 – August 23, 2020)
- Week 24 (August 24, 2020 – August 30, 2020): Verdi Week
- Week 25 (August 31, 2020 – September 6, 2020) : 20th Century and Beyond
- Week 26 (September 7, 2020 – September 13, 2020) : French Week
- Week 27 (September 14, 2020 – September 20, 2020) : Bel-Canto Favorites
- Week 28 (September 21, 2020 – September 27, 2020): Puccini Week
- Week 29 (September 28, 2020 – October 4, 2020) : Mozart Week
- Week 30 (October 5, 2020 – October 11, 2020): Wagner Week
- Week 31 (October 12, 2020 – October 18, 2020): Donizetti Week
- Week 32 (October 19, 2020 – October 25, 2020): Operatic Comedies
- Week 33 (October 26, 2020 – November 1, 2020): Politics in Opera
- Weeks 34 (November 2, 2020 – November 8, 2020): A Two-Week Tour of Opera History, Part I From Handel to Wagner
- Weeks 35 (November 9, 2020 – November 15, 2020): A Two-Week Tour of Opera History, Part II
- Week 36 (November 16, 2020 – November 29, 2020): Yannick Week
- Week 37 (November 23, 2020 – November 29, 2020) : Family Drama
- Week 38 (November 30, 2020 – December 6, 2020): Stars in Signature Roles
- Week 39 (December 7, 2020 – December 13, 2020): In Plain English
- Week 40 (December 14, 2020 – December 20, 2020): Epic Proportions
- Week 41 (December 20, 2020 – December 27, 2020): Holiday Fare
- Week 42 (December 28, 2020 – January 3, 2021): Pavarotti Week
- Week 43 (January 4, 2021 – January 10, 2021) : Epic Rivalries
- Week 44 (January 11, 2021 – January 17, 2021) :Renée Fleming Week
- Week 45 (January 18, 2021 – January 24, 2021): Leading Ladies: Opera’s Greatest Heroines
- Week 46 (January 25, 2021 – January 31, 2021): The Antiheroes
- Week 47 (February 1, 2021 – February 7, 2021): Black History Month at the Met, Part I
- Week 48 (February 8, 2021 – February 14, 2021): Black History Month at the Met, Part II
- Week 49 (February 15, 2021 – February 21, 2021): Franco Zeffirelli Week
- Week 50 (February 22, 2021 – February 28, 2021): Dmitri Hvorostovsky Week
- Week 51 (March 1, 2021 – March 7, 2021): Celebrating Women’s History Month
- Week 52 (March 8, 2021 – March 14, 2021): Verismo Passions
- Week 53 (March 15, 2021 – March 21, 2021): Viewers’ Choice
- Week 54 (March 22, 2021 – March 28, 2021): Myths and Legends
- Week 55 (March 29, 2021 – April 4, 2021): Love Triangles
- Week 56 (April 5, 2021 – April 11, 2021): From Page to Stage
- Week 57 (April 12, 2021 – April 18, 2021): Once Upon a Time
- Week 58 (April 19, 2021 – April 23, 2021): Moral Authority
- Week 59 (April 26, 2021 – May 2, 2021): City of Light
- Week 60 (May 3, 2021 – May 9, 2021): Happy Mother’s Day
- Week 61 (May 10, 2021 – May 16, 2021): National Council Auditions Alumni Week
- Week 62 (May 17, 2021 – May 23, 2021): Unhinged Mad Scenes
- Week 63 (May 24, 2021 – May 30, 2021): Rare Gems
- Week 64 (May 31, 2021 – June 6, 2021): Aria Code: The Operas Behind the Podcast
- Week 65 (June 7, 2021 – June 13, 2021): Changing the Scene: Updated Settings for Classic Operas
- Week 66 (June 14, 2021 – June 20, 2021): Happy Father’s Day
- Week 67 (June 21, 2021 – June 27, 2021): Pride Week
- Week 68 (June 28, 2021 – July 4, 2021): Celebrating American Composers
- Week 69 (July 5, 2021 – July 11, 2021): Strauss Week
- Week 70 (July 12, 2021 – July 18, 2021): Puccini Week
- Week 71 (July 19, 2021 – July 25, 2021) Final Week: Viewers’ Choice
1. Met Opera Live in HD
1.1 Nightly Opera Streams
As part of the containment of Coronavirus spread, all the entertainment-related facilities in New York City have been temporarily closed since March 12, 2020. The Metropolitan Opera House is one of such facilities.
I noticed that they have been offering free opera streaming since the temporary closure had started. Each day, performance becomes available from 7:30 p.m. EDT for 23 hours, i.e., until 6:30 p.m. of the following day.
The streaming is available through not only Met Opera’s website, but also smartphone, tablet, Roku devices and smart TVs. Downloading “Met Opera on Demand” app is required in case of the latter. Please see the below website for the details.
1.2（Reference）Price for unlimited Streaming of “Met Opera on Demand”
By the way, under regular circumstances, streaming of Met Opera on demand is a paid service, and we are supposed to either rent ($4.99 per title) or subscribe to start viewing available titles. Subscriber can view all the available titles but it costs $14.99/month or $149.99/year.
Reference: https://www.metopera.org/season/on-demand/
2. Dates and titles of the Operas which are Available for Free Streaming
Below is a list of dates and titles of the operas which were chosen to be streamed each day. Schedule has been updated every week (around mid-week). So, I will update this list when additional schedule become available.
Title of each performance contains a link to the Synopsis page of the corresponding title in the Metropolitan Opera website. “Read Program” contains a link to a PDF version of Playbill that corresponds to the day when the opera was performed.
Week 1（March 16, 2020～March 22, 2020）
Monday, March 16 – Bizet’s Carmen
Conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, starring Elīna Garanča and Roberto Alagna. Transmitted live on January 16, 2010. Sung in French.
Tuesday, March 17 – Puccini’s La Bohème
Conducted by Nicola Luisotti, starring Angela Gheorghiu and Ramón Vargas. Transmitted live on April 5, 2008. Sung in Italian.
Wednesday, March 18 – Verdi’s Il Trovatore
Conducted by Marco Armiliato, starring Anna Netrebko, Dolora Zajick, Yonghoon Lee, and Dmitri Hvorostovsky. Transmitted live on October 3, 2015. Sung in Italian.
Thursday, March 19 – Verdi’s La Traviata
Conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, starring Diana Damrau, Juan Diego Flórez, and Quinn Kelsey. Transmitted live on December 15, 2018. Sung in Italian.
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. Sung in French.
Saturday, March 21 – Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor（Conducted by Marco Armiliato, starring Anna Netrebko, Piotr Beczała, and Mariusz Kwiecien. Transmitted live on February 7, 2009. Sung in Italian.
Sunday, March 22 – Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin
Conducted by Valery Gergiev, starring Renée Fleming, Ramón Vargas, and Dmitri Hvorostovsky. Transmitted live on February 24, 2007. Sung in Russian.
Week 2（March 23, 2020～March 29, 2020）(Wagner Week)
Monday, March 23: Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde
Transmitted live October 8, 2016
Sung in German
Read Program
Tuesday, March 24: Wagner’s Das Rheingold
Transmitted live October 9, 2010
Sung in German
Read Program
Wednesday, March 25: Wagner’s Die Walküre
Transmitted live May 14, 2011
Sung in German
Read Program
Thursday, March 26: Wagner’s Siegfried
Transmitted live November 5, 2011
Sung in German
Read Program
Friday, March 27: Wagner’s Götterdämmerung
Transmitted live February 11, 2012
Sung in German
Read Program
Saturday, March 28: Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Transmitted live December 13, 2014
Sung in German
Read Program
Sunday, March 29: Wagner’s Tannhäuser
Transmitted live October 31, 2015
Sung in German
Read Program
Reference: (1) Nightly Opera Streams, Week 2 (March 23–29), (2) Nightly Opera Streams, Week Two: Playbills, (3) A Guide to Wagner Week
Week 3（March 30, 2020～April 5, 2020）
Monday, March 30: Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites
Transmitted live May 11, 2019
Sung in French
Read Program
Tuesday, March 31: Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia
Transmitted live March 24, 2007
Sung in Italian
Read Program
Wednesday, April 1: John Adams’s Nixon in China
Transmitted live February 12, 2011
Sung in English
Read Program
Thursday, April 2: Verdi’s Don Carlo
Transmitted live December 11, 2010
Sung in Italian
Read Program
Friday, April 3: Bizet’s Les Pêcheurs de Perles
Transmitted live January 16, 2016
Sung in French
Read Program
Saturday, April 4: Verdi’s Macbeth
Transmitted live October 11, 2014
Sung in Italian
Read Program
Sunday, April 5: Bellini’s Norma
Transmitted live October 7, 2017
Sung in Italian
Read Program
Reference: (1) Nightly Opera Streams, Week 3 (March 30–April 5), (2) Nightly Opera Streams, Week Three: Playbills, (3) Opera Streams:Weekly Guide
Week 4（April 6, 2020～April 12, 2020）
Monday, April 6: Verdi’s Aida
Transmitted live on October 6, 2018
Sung in Italian
Read Program
Tuesday, April 7: Puccini’s La Fanciulla del West
Transmitted live on January 8, 2011
Sung in Italian
Read Program
Wednesday, April 8: Verdi’s Falstaff
Transmitted live on December 14, 2013
Sung in Italian
Read Program
Thursday, April 9: Wagner’s Parsifal
Transmitted live on March 2, 2013
Sung in German
Read Program
Friday, April 10: Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette
Transmitted live on January 21, 2017
Sung in French
Read Program
Saturday, April 11: Donizetti’s Don Pasquale
Transmitted live on November 13, 2010
Sung in Italian
Read Program
Sunday, April 12: Mozart’s Così fan tutte
Transmitted live on March 31, 2018
Sung in Italian
Read Program
Reference: (1) Nightly Opera Streams, April 6–12, (2) Nightly Opera Streams, April 6–12: Playbills, (3) Opera Streams:Weekly Guide
Week 5（April 13, 2020～April 19, 2020）
Monday, April 13: Dvořák’s Rusalka
Transmitted live on February 8, 2014
Sung in Czech
Read Program
Tuesday, April 14: Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov
Transmitted live on October 23, 2010
Sung in Russian
Read Program
Wednesday, April 15: Puccini’s La Rondine
Transmitted live on January 10, 2009
Sung in Italian
Read Program
Thursday, April 16: Rossini’s Le Comte Ory
Transmitted live on April 9, 2011
Sung in French
Read Program
Friday, April 17: Puccini’s Madama Butterfly
Transmitted live on March 7, 2009
Sung in Italian
Read Program
Saturday, April 18: Cilea’s Adriana Lecouvreur
Transmitted live on January 12, 2019
Sung in Italian
Read Program
Sunday, April 19: Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier
Transmitted live on May 13, 2017
Sung in German
Read Program
Reference: (1) Nightly Opera Streams, April 13–19, (2) Nightly Opera Streams, April 13–19: Playbills, (3) Opera Streams:Weekly Guide
Week 6（April 20, 2020～April 26, 2020）
Monday, April 20: Strauss’s Elektra
Transmitted live on April 30, 2016
Sung in German
Read Program
Tuesday, April 21: Puccini’s Tosca
Transmitted live on January 27, 2018
Sung in Italian
Read Program
Wednesday, April 22: Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann
Transmitted live on December 19, 2009
Sung in French
Read Program
Thursday, April 23: Lehár’s The Merry Widow
Transmitted live on January 17, 2015
Sung in English
Read Program
Friday, April 24: Verdi’s La Traviata
Transmitted live on April 14, 2012
Sung in Italian
Read Program
Saturday, April 25: At-Home Gala
Sunday, April 26: Rossini’s La Cenerentola
Transmitted live on May 10, 2014
Sung in Italian
Read Program
Reference: (1) Nightly Opera Streams, April 20–26, (2) Nightly Opera Streams, April 20–26: Playbills, (3) Opera Streams:Weekly Guide
Week 7（April 27, 2020～May 3, 2020）
Monday, April 27: Donizetti’s Anna Bolena
Transmitted live on October 15, 2011
Sung in Italian
Read Program
Tuesday, April 28: Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda
Transmitted live on January 19, 2013
Sung in Italian
Read Program
Wednesday, April 29: Donizetti’s Roberto Devereux
Transmitted live on April 16, 2016
Sung in Italian
Read Program
Thursday, April 30: Nico Muhly’s Marnie
Transmitted live on November 11, 2018
Sung in English
Read Program
Friday, May 1: Verdi’s Aida
Transmitted live on January 3, 1985
Sung in Italian
Read Program (The original Playbill for this performance is not available. This document contains a synopsis and two essays about the opera.)
Saturday, May 2: Verdi’s Luisa Miller
Transmitted live on April 14, 2018
Sung in Italian
Read Program
Sunday, May 3: Borodin’s Prince Igor
Transmitted live on March 1, 2014
Sung in Russian
Read Program
Reference: (1) Nightly Opera Streams, April 27–May 3, (2) Nightly Opera Streams, April 27–May 3: Playbills, (3) Opera Streams:Weekly Guide
Week 8（May 4, 2020～May 10, 2020）
Monday, May 4: Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro
Transmitted live on November 11, 1998
Sung in Italian
Read Program (The original Playbill for this performance is not available. This document contains a synopsis and two essays about the opera.)
Tuesday, May 5: Thomas’s Hamlet
Transmitted live on March 27, 2010
Sung in French
Read Program
Wednesday, May 6: Kaija Saariaho’s L’Amour de Loin
Transmitted live on December 10, 2016
Sung in French
Read Program
Thursday, May 7: Strauss’s Capriccio
Transmitted live on April 23, 2011
Sung in German
Read Program
Friday, May 8: Puccini’s La Bohème
Transmitted live on March 15, 1977
Sung in Italian
Read Program (The original Playbill for this performance is not available. This document contains a synopsis and two essays about the opera.)
Saturday, May 9: The Opera House
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Sunday, May 10: Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana and Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci
Transmitted live on April 25, 2015
Sung in Italian
Read Program
Reference: (1) Nightly Opera Streams, May 4–10, (2) Nightly Opera Streams, May 4–May 10: Playbills, (3) Opera Streams:Weekly Guide
Week 9（May 11, 2020～May 17, 2020）
Monday, May 11: Massenet’s Werther
Sung in French
Transmitted live on March 15, 2014
Read Program
Tuesday, May 12: Thomas Adès’s The Tempest
Transmitted live on November 10, 2012
Sung in English
Read Program
Wednesday, May 13: Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos
Transmitted live on March 12, 1988
Sung in German
Read Program (The original Playbill for this performance is not available. This document contains a synopsis and two essays about the opera.)
Thursday, May 14: Britten’s Peter Grimes
Transmitted live on March 15, 2008
Sung in English
Read Program
Friday, May 15: Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor
Transmitted live on November 13, 1982
Sung in Italian
Read Program （The original Playbill for this performance is not available. This document contains a synopsis and two essays about the opera.）
Saturday, May 16: Verdi’s Rigoletto
Transmitted live on February 16, 2013
Sung in Italian
Read Program
Sunday, May 17: Verdi’s Nabucco
Transmitted live on January 7, 2017
Sung in Italian
Read Program
Reference: (1) Nightly Opera Streams, May 11–17, (2) Nightly Opera Streams, May 11–17: Playbills, (3) Weekly Guide: May 11–17
Week 10（May 18, 2020～May 24, 2020）
Monday, May 18: Mozart’s Idomeneo
Transmitted live on March 25, 2017
Sung in Italian
Read Program
Tuesday, May 19: Wagner’s Lohengrin
Transmitted live on January 10, 1986
Sung in German
Read Program (The original Playbill for this performance is not available. This document contains a synopsis and an essay about the opera.)
Wednesday, May 20: Verdi’s Un Ballo in Maschera
Transmitted live on December 8, 2012
Sung in Italian
Read Program
Thursday, May 21: Puccini’s Turandot
Transmitted live on October 12, 2019
Sung in Italian
Read Program
Friday, May 22: Mozart’s Don Giovanni
Transmitted live on March 16, 1978
Sung in Italian
Read Program (The original Playbill for this performance is not available. This document contains a synopsis and two essays about the opera.)
Saturday, May 23: Gounod’s Faust
Transmitted live on December 10, 2011
Sung in French
Read Program
Sunday, May 24: Massenet’s Manon
Transmitted live on April 7, 2012
Sung in French
Read Program
Reference: (1) Nightly Opera Streams, May 18–24, Nightly Opera Streams, May 18–24: Playbills, Weekly Guide: May 18–24
Week 11（May 25, 2020～May 31, 2020）
Monday, May 25: Berlioz’s La Damnation de Faust
Transmitted live on November 22, 2008
Sung in French
Read Program ）
Tuesday, May 26: Verdi’s Ernani
Transmitted live on February 25, 2012
Sung in Italian
Read Program
Wednesday, May 27: Puccini’s Manon Lescaut
Transmitted live on March 29, 1980
Sung in Italian
Read Program (The original Playbill for this performance is not available. This document contains a synopsis and two essays about the opera.)
Thursday, May 28: Berlioz’s Les Troyens
Transmitted live on January 5, 2013
Sung in French
Read Program
Friday, May 29: Bellini’s La Sonnambula
Transmitted live on March 21, 2009
Sung in Italian
Read Program
Saturday, May 30: Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’Amore
Transmitted live on February 10, 2018
Sung in Italian
Read Program
Sunday, May 31: Strauss’s Salome
Transmitted live on October 11, 2008
Sung in German
Read Program
Reference: (1) Nightly Opera Streams, May 25–31, (2) Nightly Opera Streams, May 25–31: Playbills, (3) Weekly Guide: May 25–31
Week 12（June 1, 2020～June 7, 2020）
Monday, June 1: Bellini’s I Puritan
Transmitted live on January 6, 2007
Sung in Italian
Read Program
Tuesday, June 2: Berg’s Lulu
Transmitted live on November 21, 2015
Sung in German
Read Program
Wednesday, June 3: Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice
Transmitted live on January 24, 2009
Sung in Italian
Read Program
Thursday, June 4: Puccini’s Tosca
Transmitted live on December 19, 1978
Read Program (The original Playbill for this performance is not available. This document contains a synopsis and two essays about the opera.)
Sung in Italian
Friday, June 5: Thomas Adès’s The Exterminating Angel
Transmitted live on November 18, 2017
Sung in English
Read Program
Saturday, June 6: Verdi’s Otello
Transmitted live on October 17, 2015
Sung in Italian
Read Program
Reference: (1) Nightly Opera Streams, June 1-7, (2) Nightly Opera Streams, June 1-7: Playbills, (3) Weekly Guide: June 1-7
Week 13（June 8, 2020～June 14, 2020）
Monday, June 8: Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito
Transmitted live on December 1, 2012
Sung in Italian
Read Program
Tuesday, June 9: Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta / Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle
Transmitted live on February 14, 2015
Sung in Russian/Hungarian
Read Program
Wednesday, June 10: Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel
Transmitted live on January 1, 2008
Sung in English
Read Program
Thursday, June 11: John Corigliano’s The Ghosts of Versailles
Transmitted live on January 10, 1992
Read Program (The original Playbill for this performance is not available. This document contains a synopsis and two essays about the opera)
Friday June 12–Saturday, June 13: At-Home Gala Encore Presentation
Transmitted live on April 25, 2020
Read Program
Sunday, June 14: Handel’s Rodelinda
Transmitted live on December 3, 2011
Sung in Italian
Read Program
Reference: (1) Nightly Opera Streams, June 8-14, (2) Nightly Opera Streams, June 8-14: Playbills, (3) Weekly Guide: June 8-14
Week 14（June 15, 2020～June 21, 2020）
Monday, June 15: Rossini’s Armida
Transmitted live on May 1, 2010
Sung in Italian
Read Program
Tuesday, June 16: Rossini’s Semiramide
Transmitted live on March 10, 2018
Sung in Italian
Read Program
Wednesday, June 17: Gluck’s Iphigénie en Tauride
Transmitted live on February 26, 2011
Sung in French
Read Program
Thursday, June 18, and Friday, June 19: Verdi’s La Forza del Destino
Transmitted live on March 24, 1984
Read Program (The original Playbill for this performance is not available. This document contains a synopsis and an essay about the opera.)
Saturday, June 20: Philip Glass’s Akhnaten
Transmitted live on November 23, 2019
Sung in various languages
Read Program
Sunday, June 21: Philip Glass’s Satyagraha
Transmitted live on November 19, 2011
Sung in Sanskrit
Read Program
Read Libretto
Reference: (1) Nightly Opera Streams, June 15-21, (2) Nightly Opera Streams, June 15-21: Playbills, (3) Weekly Guide: June 15-21
Week 15（June 22, 2020～June 29, 2020）
Monday, June 22: Verdi’s La Traviata
Starring Sonya Yoncheva, Michael Fabiano, and Thomas Hampson, conducted by Nicola Luisotti.
Transmitted live on March 11, 2017
Sung in Italian.
Read Program
Tuesday, June 23: John Adams’s Doctor Atomic
Starring Sasha Cooke, Thomas Glenn, Gerald Finley, and Richard Paul Fink, conducted by Alan Gilbert.
Transmitted live on November 8, 2008
Sung in English
Read Program
Wednesday, June 24: Saint-Saëns’s Samson et Dalila
Starring Elīna Garanča, Roberto Alagna, Laurent Naouri, Elchin Azizov, and Dmitry Belosselskiy, conducted by Sir Mark Elder.
Transmitted live on October 20, 2018
Sung in French.
Read Program
Thursday, June 25: Massenet’s Manon
Starring Lisette Oropesa, Michael Fabiano, Carlo Bosi, Artur Ruciński, Brett Polegato, and Kwangchul Youn, conducted by Maurizio Benini.
Transmitted live on October 26, 2019
Sung in French.
Read Program
Friday, June 26: Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’Amore
Starring Kathleen Battle, Luciano Pavarotti, Juan Pons, and Enzo Dara, conducted by James Levine.
Transmitted live on November 16, 1991.
Sung in Italian.
Read Program（The original Playbill for this performance is not available. This document contains a synopsis and an essay about the opera.）
Saturday, June 27: Massenet’s Cendrillon
Starring Kathleen Kim, Joyce DiDonato, Alice Coote, Stephanie Blythe, and Laurent Naouri, conducted by Bertrand de Billy.
Transmitted live on April 28, 2018
.Sung in French.
Read Program
Sunday, June 28: Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte
Starring Golda Schultz, Kathryn Lewek, Charles Castronovo, Markus Werba, Christian Van Horn, and René Pape, conducted by James Levine. Transmitted live on October 14, 2017
Sung in German
Read Program
Reference：(1) Nightly Opera Streams, June 22-28, (2) Nightly Opera Streams, June 22-28: Playbills, (3) Weekly Guide: June 22-29
Week 16（June 29, 2020～July 5, 2020）
Monday, June 29：Donizetti’s La Fille du Régiment
Starring Pretty Yende, Stephanie Blythe, Javier Camarena, Maurizio Muraro, and Kathleen Turner, conducted by Enrique Mazzola. From March 2, 2019. Sung in French.
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Tuesday, June 30：Wagner’s Die Walküre
Starring Hildegard Behrens, Jessye Norman, Christa Ludwig, Gary Lakes, James Morris, and Kurt Moll, conducted by James Levine. From April 8, 1989. Sung in German.
Read Program （The original Playbill for this performance is not available. This document contains a synopsis and an essay about the opera.）
Met Opera On Demand
Wednesday, July 1：Shostakovich’s The Nose
Starring Andrey Popov, Alexander Lewis, and Paulo Szot, conducted by Pavel Smelkov. From October 26, 2013. Sung in Russian.
Read Program
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Thursday, July 2：Bizet’s Carmen
Starring Anita Hartig, Anita Rachvelishvili, Aleksandrs Antonenko, and Ildar Abdrazakov, conducted by Pablo Heras-Casado. From November 1, 2014. Sung in French.
Read Program
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Friday, July 3：Mozart’s Don Giovanni
Starring Marina Rebeka, Barbara Frittoli, Mojca Erdmann, Ramón Vargas, Mariusz Kwiecien, Luca Pisaroni, and Štefan Kocán, conducted by Fabio Luisi. From October 29, 2011. Sung in Italian.
Read Program
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Saturday, July 4：Donizetti’s Don Pasquale）
Starring Beverly Sills, Alfredo Kraus, Håkan Hagegård, and Gabriel Bacquier, conducted by Nicola Rescigno. From January 11, 1979. Sung in Italian.
Read Program (The original Playbill for this performance is not available. This document contains a synopsis and an essay about the opera.)
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Sunday, July 5：Rossini’s La Donna del Lago
Starring Joyce DiDonato, Daniela Barcellona, Juan Diego Flórez, John Osborn, and Oren Gradus, conducted by Michele Mariotti. From March 14, 2015. Sung in Italian.
Read Program
Met Opera On Demand
Reference：(1) Nightly Opera Streams, June 29-July 5, (2) Nightly Opera Streams, June 29-July 5: Playbills, (3) Weekly Guide: June 29-July 5
Week 17（July 6, 2020～July, 12, 2020）
Monday, July 6：Puccini’s La Bohème
Starring Sonya Yoncheva, Susanna Phillips, Michael Fabiano, Lucas Meachem, Alexey Lavrov, and Matthew Rose, conducted by Marco Armiliato. From February 24, 2018. Sung in Italian.
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Tuesday, July 7：Verdi’s Il Trovatore
Starring Éva Marton, Dolora Zajick, Luciano Pavarotti, and Sherrill Milnes, conducted by James Levine. From October 15, 1988. Sung in Italian.
Read Program (The original Playbill for this performance is not available. This document contains a synopsis and an essay about the opera.
Met Opera On Demand
Wednesday, July 8：Mozart’s Così fan tutte
Starring Susanna Phillips, Isabel Leonard, Danielle de Niese, Matthew Polenzani, Rodion Pogossov, and Maurizio Muraro, conducted by James Levine. From April 26, 2014. Sung in Italian.
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Thursday, July 9：Zandonai’s Francesca da Rimini
Starring Eva-Maria Westbroek, Marcello Giordani, and Mark Delavan, conducted by Marco Armiliato. From March 16, 2013. Sung in Italian.
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Friday, July 10：Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin
Starring Anna Netrebko, Piotr Beczała, Mariusz Kwiecień, and Alexei Tanovitski, conducted by Valery Gergiev. From October 5, 2013. Sung in Russian.
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Saturday, July 11：Puccini’s Madama Butterfly
Starring Hui He, Elizabeth DeShong, Bruce Sledge, and Paulo Szot, conducted by Pier Giorgio Morandi. From November 9, 2019. Sung in Italian.
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Sunday, July 12：Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde
Starring Jane Eaglen, Katarina Dalayman, Ben Heppner, Hans-Joachim Ketelsen, and René Pape, conducted by James Levine. From December 18, 1999. Sung in German.
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Week 18（July 13, 2020～July 19, 2020）
Monday, July 13: Puccini’s Manon Lescaut
Starring Kristine Opolais, Roberto Alagna, Massimo Cavalletti, and Brindley Sherratt, conducted by Fabio Luisi. From March 5, 2016. Sung in Italian.
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Tuesday, July 14: Verdi’s La Traviata
Starring Ileana Cotrubaș, Plácido Domingo, and Cornell MacNeil, conducted by James Levine. Transmitted live on March 28, 1981. Sung in Italian.
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Wednesday, July 15: Puccini’s Turandot
Starring Maria Guleghina, Marina Poplavskaya, Marcello Giordani, and Samuel Ramey, conducted by Andria Nelsons. From November 7, 2009. Sung in Italian.
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Thursday, July 16: Berg’s Wozzeck
Starring Elza van den Heever, Tamara Mumford, Christopher Ventris, Gerhard Siegel, Andrew Staples, Peter Mattei, and Christian Van Horn, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. From January 11, 2020. Sung in German.
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Friday, July 17: Rossini’s La Cenerentola
Starring Elina Garanča, Lawrence Brownlee, Simone Alberghini, and John Relyea, conducted by Maurizio Benini. From May 9, 2009. Sung in Italian.
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Saturday, July 18: Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro
Starring Amanda Majeski, Marlis Petersen, Isabel Leonard, Peter Mattei, and Ildar Abdrazakov, conducted by James Levine. From October 18, 2014. Sung in Italian.
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Sunday, July 19: Puccini’s La Bohème
Starring Teresa Stratas, Renata Scotto, José Carreras, Richard Stilwell, and James Morris, conducted by James Levine. From January 16, 1982. Sung in Italian.
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Week 19 (July 20, 2020 – July 26, 2020)
Monday, July 20: Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia
Starring Isabel Leonard, Lawrence Brownlee, Christopher Maltman, and Maurizio Muraro, conducted by Michele Mariotti. From November 22, 2014. Sung in Italian.
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Tuesday, July 21: Wagner’s Tannhäuser
Starring Éva Marton, Tatiana Troyanos, Richard Cassilly, Bernd Weikl, and John Macurdy, conducted by James Levine. From December 20, 1982. Sung in German.
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Wednesday, July 22: Verdi’s Macbeth
Starring Maria Guleghina, Dimitri Pittas, Željko Lučić, and John Relyea, conducted by James Levine. From January 12, 2008. Sung in Italian.
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Thursday, July 23: Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette
Starring Anna Netrebko, Roberto Alagna, Nathan Gunn, and Robert Lloyd, conducted by Plácido Domingo. From December 15, 2007. Sung in French.
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Friday, July 24: Verdi’s Falstaff
Starring Mirella Freni, Barbara Bonney, Marilyn Horne, Bruno Pola, and Paul Plishka, conducted by James Levine. From October 10, 1992. Sung in Italian.
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Saturday, July 25: Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier
Starring Renée Fleming, Christine Schäfer, Susan Graham, and Kristinn Sigmundsson, conducted by Edo de Waart. From January 9, 2010. Sung in German.
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Sunday, July 26: Puccini’s La Fanciulla del West
Starring Eva-Maria Westbroek, Jonas Kaufmann, and Željko Lučić, conducted by Marco Armiliato. From October 27, 2018. Sung in Italian.
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Week 20 (July 27, 2020 – August 2, 2020)
Monday, July 27: Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor
Starring Natalie Dessay, Joseph Calleja, Ludovic Tézier, and Kwangchul Youn, conducted by Patrick Summers. From March 19, 2011. Sung in Italian.
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Tuesday, July 28: Puccini’s Tosca
Starring Karita Mattila, Marcelo Álvarez, and George Gagnidze, conducted by Joseph Colaneri. From October 10, 2009. Sung in Italian.
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Wednesday, July 29: Verdi’s Rigoletto
Starring Ileana Cotrubas, Plácido Domingo, and Cornell MacNeil, conducted by James Levine. From November 7, 1977. Sung in Italian.
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Thursday, July 30: Verdi’s Il Trovatore
Starring Sondra Radvanovsky, Dolora Zajick, Marcelo Álvarez, and Dmitri Hvorostovsky, conducted by Marco Armiliato. From April 30, 2011. Sung in Italian.
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Friday, July 31: Dvořák’s Rusalka
Starring Kristine Opolais, Katarina Dalayman, Jamie Barton, Brandon Jovanovich, and Eric Owens, conducted by Mark Elder. From February 25, 2017. Sung in Czech.
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Saturday, August 1: Verdi’s Ernani
Starring Leona Mitchell, Luciano Pavarotti, Sherrill Milnes, and Ruggero Raimondi, conducted by James Levine. From December 17, 1983. Sung in Italian.
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Sunday, August 2: Wagner’s Die Walküre
Starring Christine Goerke, Eva-Maria Westbroek, Jamie Barton, Stuart Skelton, Greer Grimsley, and Günther Groissböck, conducted by Philippe Jordan. From March 30, 2019. Sung in German.
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Week 21 (August 3, 2020 – August 9, 2020)
Monday, August 3: Mozart’s The Magic Flute
Starring Ying Huang, Erika Miklósa, Matthew Polenzani, Nathan Gunn, and René Pape, conducted by James Levine. From December 30, 2006. Sung in English.
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Tuesday, August 4: Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann
Starring Erin Morley, Hibla Gerzmava, Kate Lindsey, Christine Rice, Vittorio Grigolo, and Thomas Hampson, conducted by Yves Abel. From January 31, 2015. Sung in French.
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Wednesday, August 5: Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra
Starring Kiri Te Kanawa, Plácido Domingo, Vladimir Chernov, and Robert Lloyd, conducted by James Levine. From January 26, 1995. Sung in Italian.
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Thursday, August 6: Puccini’s Madama Butterfly
Starring Kristine Opolais, Maria Zifchak, Roberto Alagna, and Dwayne Croft, conducted by Karel Mark Chichon. From April 2, 2016. Sung in Italian.
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Friday, August 7: Wagner’s Parsifal
Starring Waltraud Meier, Siegfried Jerusalem, Bernd Weikl, and Kurt Moll, conducted by James Levine. From March 28, 1992. Sung in German.
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Saturday, August 8: Handel’s Agrippina
Starring Brenda Rae, Joyce DiDonato, Kate Lindsey, Iestyn Davies, Duncan Rock, and Matthew Rose, conducted by Harry Bicket. From February 29, 2020. Sung in Italian.
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Sunday, August 9: Mozart’s Don Giovanni
Starring Hibla Gerzmava, Malin Byström, Serena Malfi, Paul Appleby, Simon Keenlyside, and Adam Plachetka, conducted by Fabio Luisi. From October 22, 2016. Sung in Italian.
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Week 22 (August 10, 2020 – August 16, 2020)
Monday, August 10: Puccini’s Manon Lescaut
Starring Karita Mattila, Marcello Giordani, and Dwayne Croft, conducted by James Levine. From February 16, 2008. Sung in Italian.
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Tuesday, August 11: Bizet’s Carmen
Starring Aleksandra Kurzak, Clémentine Margaine, Roberto Alagna, and Alexander Vinogradov, conducted by Louis Langrée. From February 2, 2019. Sung in French.
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Wednesday, August 12: Verdi’s Rigoletto
Starring Christiane Eda-Pierre, Isola Jones, Luciano Pavarotti, Louis Quilico, and Ara Berberian, conducted by James Levine. From December 15, 1981. Sung in Italian.
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Thursday, August 13: Puccini’s Turandot
Starring Nina Stemme, Anita Hartig, Marco Berti, and Alexander Tsymbalyuk, conducted by Paolo Carignani. From January 30, 2016. Sung in Italian.
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Friday, August 14: Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde
Starring Deborah Voigt, Michelle DeYoung, Robert Dean Smith, and Matti Salminen, conducted by James Levine. From March 22, 2008. Sung in German.
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Saturday, August 15: Puccini’s La Bohème
Starring Kristine Opolais, Susanna Phillips, Vittorio Grigolo, Massimo Cavalletti, Patrick Carfizzi, and Oren Gradus, conducted by Stefano Ranzani. From April 5, 2014. Sung in Italian.
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Sunday, August 16: Verdi’s Luisa Miller
Starring Renata Scotto, Plácido Domingo, Sherrill Milnes, Bonaldo Giaiotti, and James Morris, conducted by James Levine. From January 20, 1979. Sung in Italian.
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Week 23 (August 17, 2020 – August 23, 2020)
Monday, August 17: Puccini’s Tosca
Starring Patricia Racette, Roberto Alagna, and George Gagnidze, conducted by Riccardo Frizza. From November 9, 2013. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 19 min.
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Tuesday, August 18: Zandonai’s Francesca da Rimini
Starring Renata Scotto, Plácido Domingo, and Cornell MacNeil, conducted by James Levine. From April 7, 1984. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 29 min.
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Wednesday, August 19: Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin
Starring Anna Netrebko, Elena Maximova, Alexey Dolgov, Peter Mattei, and Štefan Kocán, conducted by Robin Ticciati. From April 22, 2017. Sung in Russian. Run Time: 2 hrs 51 min.
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Thursday, August 20: Verdi’s Un Ballo in Maschera
Starring Aprile Millo, Harolyn Blackwell, Florence Quivar, Luciano Pavarotti, and Leo Nucci, conducted by James Levine. From January 26, 1991. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 15 min.
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Friday, August 21: Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra
Starring Adrianne Pieczonka, Marcello Giordani, Plácido Domingo, and James Morris, conducted by James Levine. From February 6, 2010. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 29 min.
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Saturday, August 22: Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia
Starring Kathleen Battle, Rockwell Blake, Leo Nucci, Enzo Dara, and Ferruccio Furlanetto, conducted by Ralf Weikert. From December 3, 1988. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 39 min.
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Sunday, August 23: Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel
Starring Judith Blegen, Frederica von Stade, Jean Kraft, Rosalind Elias, and Michael Devlin, conducted by Thomas Fulton. From December 25, 1982. Sung in English. Run Time: 1 hrs 42 min.
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It seems that operas selected for free streaming from the Week 24 onward are those that have been already streamed during Week 1 and Week 23. Only exception is the Gershwin’s Poggy and Beth which was streamed on September 4 & 5 (Week 25) for the first time.
Week 24 (August 24, 2020 – August 30, 2020): Verdi Week
Monday, August 24: Verdi’s Rigoletto
Starring Diana Damrau, Oksana Volkova, Piotr Beczała, Željko Lučić, and Štefan Kocán, conducted by Michele Mariotti. From February 16, 2013. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2hrs 31 min.
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Tuesday, August 25: Verdi’s Il Trovatore
Starring Anna Netrebko, Dolora Zajick, Yonghoon Lee, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, and Stefan Kocán, conducted by Marco Armiliato. From October 3, 2015. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 39 min.
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Wednesday, August 26: Verdi’s Luisa Miller
Starring Sonya Yoncheva, Olesya Petrova, Piotr Beczała, Plácido Domingo, Alexander Vinogradov, and Dmitry Belosselskiy, conducted by Bertrand de Billy. From April 14, 2018. Sung in Italian. Run TIme: 2 hrs 37 min.
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Thursday, August 27: Verdi’s Un Ballo in Maschera
Starring Sondra Radvanovsky, Kathleen Kim, Stephanie Blythe, Marcelo Álvarez, and Dmitri Hvorostovsky, conducted by Fabio Luisi. From December 8, 2012. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 41 min.
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Friday, August 28: Verdi’s La Traviata
Starring Diana Damrau, Juan Diego Flórez, and Quinn Kelsey, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. From December 15, 2018. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 51 min.
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Saturday, August 29: Verdi’s Don Carlo
Starring Marina Poplavskaya, Anna Smirnova, Roberto Alagna, Simon Keenlyside, Ferruccio Furlanetto, and Eric Halfvarson, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. From December 11, 2010. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 3 hrs 35 min.
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Sunday, August 30: Verdi’s Falstaff
Starring Lisette Oropesa, Angela Meade, Stephanie Blythe, Jennifer Johnson Cano, Paolo Fanale, Ambrogio Maestri, and Franco Vassallo, conducted by James Levine. From December 14, 2013. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 21 min.
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Week 25 (August 31, 2020 – September 6, 2020) : 20th Century and Beyond
Monday, August 31: Strauss’s Elektra
Starring Nina Stemme, Adrianne Pieczonka, Waltraud Meier, Burkhard Ulrich, and Eric Owens, conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen. From April 30, 2016. Sung in German. Run Time: 1 hrs 52 min.
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Tuesday, September 1: Britten’s Peter Grimes
Starring Patricia Racette, Anthony Dean Griffey, and Anthony Michaels-Moore, conducted by Donald Runnicles. From March 15, 2008. Sung in English. Run Time: 2 hrs 48 min.
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Wednesday, September 2: John Adams’s Nixon in China
Starring Kathleen Kim, Janis Kelly, Robert Brubaker, Russell Braun, James Maddalena, and Richard Paul Fink, conducted by John Adams. From February 12, 2011. Sung in English. Run Time: 2 hrs 56 min.
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Thursday, September 3: Berg’s Lulu
Starring Marlis Petersen, Susan Graham, Daniel Brenna, Paul Groves, Johan Reuter, and Franz Grundheber, conducted by Lothar Koenigs. Sung in German. From November 21, 2015. Run Time: 3 hrs 22 min.
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Friday, September 4 & Saturday, September 5: The Gershwins’ Porgy & Bess
Starring Angel Blue, Golda Schultz, Latonia Moore, Denyce Graves, Frederick Ballentine, Eric Owens, Alfred Walker, and Donovan Singletary, conducted by David Robertson. From February 1, 2020. Sung in English. Run Time: 3 hrs 10 min.
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Sunday, September 6: Thomas Adès’s The Tempest
Starring Audrey Luna, Isabel Leonard, Iestyn Davies, Alek Shrader, Alan Oke, William Burden, Toby Spence, and Simon Keenlyside, conducted by Thomas Adès. From November 10, 2012. Sung in English. Run Time: 2 hrs 22 min.
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Week 26 (September 7, 2020 – September 13, 2020) : French Week
Monday, September 7: Massenet’s Manon
Starring Anna Netrebko, Piotr Beczała, Paulo Szot, and David Pittsinger, conducted by Fabio Luisi. From April 7, 2012. Sung in French. Run Time: 2 hrs 53 min.
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Tuesday, September 8: Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette
Starring Diana Damrau, Vittorio Grigolo, Elliot Madore, and Mikhail Petrenko, conducted by Gianandrea Noseda. From January 21, 2017. Sung in French. Run Time: 2 hrs 50 min.
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Wednesday, September 9: Berlioz’s La Damnation de Faust
Starring Susan Graham, Marcello Giordani, and John Relyea, conducted by James Levine. From November 22, 2008. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 22 min.
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Thursday, September 10: Massenet’s Cendrillon
Starring Kathleen Kim, Joyce DiDonato, Alice Coote, Stephanie Blythe, and Laurent Naouri, conducted by Bertrand de Billy. From April 28, 2018. Sung in French. Run Time: 2 hrs 22 min.
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Friday, September 11: Bizet’s Les Pêcheurs de Perles
Starring Diana Damrau, Matthew Polenzani, Mariusz Kwiecień, and Nicolas Testé, conducted by Gianandrea Noseda. From January 16, 2016. Sung in French. Run Time: 2 hrs 15 min.
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Saturday, September 12: Berlioz’s Les Troyens
Starring Deborah Voigt, Susan Graham, Karen Cargill, Bryan Hymel, Eric Cutler, Dwayne Croft, and Kwangchul Youn, conducted by Fabio Luisi. From January 5, 2013. Sung in French. Run Time: 4 hrs 20 min.
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Sunday, September 13: Massenet’s Werther
Starring Lisette Oropesa, Sophie Koch, Jonas Kaufmann, David Bižić, and Jonathan Summers, conducted by Alain Altinoglu. From March 15, 2014. Sung in French. Run Time: 2 hrs 22 min.
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Week 27 (September 14, 2020 – September 20, 2020) : Bel-Canto Favorites
Monday, September 14: Donizetti’s Don Pasquale
Starring Anna Netrebko, Matthew Polenzani, Mariusz Kwiecień, and John Del Carlo; conducted by James Levine. From November 13, 2010. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 22 min.
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Tuesday, September 15: Rossini’s Le Comte Ory
Starring Diana Damrau, Joyce DiDonato, and Juan Diego Flórez; conducted by Maurizio Benini. From April 9, 2011. Sung in French. Run Time: 2 hrs 23 min.
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Wednesday, September 16: Donizetti’s La Fille du Régiment
Starring Natalie Dessay, Felicity Palmer, Juan Diego Flórez, and Alessandro Corbelli; conducted by Marco Armiliato. From April 26, 2008. Sung in French. Run Time: 2 hrs 19 min.
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Thursday, September 17: Rossini’s La Cenerentola
Starring Elīna Garanča, Lawrence Brownlee, Simone Alberghini, Alessandro Corbelli, and John Relyea; conducted by Maurizio Benini. From May 9, 2009. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 43 min.
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Friday, September 18: Bellini’s I Puritani
Starring Anna Netrebko, Eric Cutler, Franco Vassallo, and John Relyea; conducted by Patrick Summers. From January 6, 2007. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 35 min.
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Saturday, September 19: Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’Amore
Starring Pretty Yende, Matthew Polenzani, Davide Luciano, and Ildebrando D’Arcangelo; conducted by Domingo Hindoyan. From February 10, 2018. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 22 min.
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Sunday, September 20: Bellini’s Norma
Starring Sondra Radvanovsky, Joyce DiDonato, Joseph Calleja, and Matthew Rose, conducted by Carlo Rizzi. From October 7, 2017. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 3 hrs 4 min.
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Week 28 (September 21, 2020 – September 27, 2020): Puccini Week
Monday, September 21: Puccini’s La Rondine
Conducted by Marco Armiliato; starring Angela Gheorghiu, Lisette Oropesa, Roberto Alagna, Marius Brenciu, and Samuel Ramey.Transmitted live on January 10, 2009. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 1 hrs 54 min.
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Tuesday, September 22: Puccini’s La Fanciulla del West
Starring Deborah Voigt, Marcello Giordani, and Lucio Gallo, conducted by Nicola Luisotti. From January 8, 2011. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 22 min.
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Wednesday, September 23: Puccini’s Manon Lescaut
Starring Kristine Opolais, Roberto Alagna, Massimo Cavalletti, and Brindley Sherratt, conducted by Fabio Luisi;. From March 5, 2016. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 24 min.
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Thursday, September 24: Puccini’s Madama Butterfly
Starring Patricia Racette, Maria Zifchak, Marcello Giordani, and Dwayne Croft, conducted by Patrick Summers. From on March 7, 2009. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 26 min.
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Friday, September 25: Puccini’s Tosca
Starring Sonya Yoncheva, Vittorio Grigolo, and Željko Lučić, conducted by Emmanuel Villaume. From January 27, 2018. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 21 min.
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Saturday, September 26: Puccini’s Turandot
Starring Christine Goerke, Eleonora Buratto, Yusif Eyvazov, and James Morris, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. From October 12, 2019. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 23 min.
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Sunday, September 27: Puccini’s La Bohème
Starring Angela Gheorghiu, Ainhoa Arteta, Ramón Vargas, Ludovic Tézier, Quinn Kelsey, Oren Gradus, and Paul Plishka, conducted by Nicola Luisotti. From April 5, 2008. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 16 min.
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Week 29 (September 28, 2020 – October 4, 2020) : Mozart Week
Monday, September 28: Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro
Starring Amanda Majeski, Marlis Petersen, Isabel Leonard, Peter Mattei, and Ildar Abdrazakov, conducted by James Levine. From October 18, 2014. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 3 hrs 18 min.
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Tuesday, September 29: Mozart’s Così fan tutte
Starring Susanna Phillips, Isabel Leonard, Danielle de Niese, Matthew Polenzani, Rodion Pogossov, and Maurizio Muraro, conducted by James Levine. From April 26, 2014. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 3 hrs 22min.
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Wednesday, September 30: Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito
Starring Lucy Crowe, Barbara Frittoli, Elīna Garanča, Kate Lindsey, Giuseppe Filianoti, and Oren Gradus, conducted by Harry Bicket. From December 1, 2012. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 35min.
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Thursday, October 1: Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte
Starring Golda Schultz, Kathryn Lewek, Charles Castronovo, Markus Werba, Christian Van Horn, and René Pape, conducted by James Levine. From October 14, 2017. Sung in German. Run Time: 3 hrs 0 min.
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Friday, October 2: Mozart’s Don Giovanni
Starring Marina Rebeka, Barbara Frittoli, Mojca Erdmann, Ramón Vargas, Mariusz Kwiecień, Luca Pisaroni, and Štefan Kocán, conducted by Fabio Luisi. From October 29, 2011. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 55min.
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Saturday, October 3: Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro
Starring Renée Fleming, Cecilia Bartoli, Susanne Mentzer, Dwayne Croft, and Bryn Terfel, conducted by James Levine. From November 11, 1998. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 3 hrs 03 min.
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Sunday, October 4: Mozart’s Idomeneo
Starring Elza van den Heever, Nadine Sierra, Alice Coote, Matthew Polenzani, and Alan Opie, conducted by James Levine. From March 25, 2017. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 3 hrs 22 min.
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Week 30 (October 5, 2020 – October 11, 2020): Wagner Week
Monday, October 5: Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde
Starring Nina Stemme, Ekaterina Gubanova, Stuart Skelton, Evgeny Nikitin, and René Pape, conducted by Sir Simon Rattle. From October 8, 2016. Sung in German. Run Time: 4 hrs19 min.
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Tuesday, October 6: Wagner’s Tannhäuser
Starring Eva-Maria Westbroek, Michelle DeYoung, Johan Botha, Peter Mattei, and Günther Groissböck, conducted by James Levine. From October 31, 2015. Sung in German. Run Time: 3 hrs 51 min.
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Wednesday, October 7: Wagner’s Das Rheingold
Starring Christa Ludwig, Siegfried Jerusalem, James Morris, and Ekkehard Wlaschiha, conducted by James Levine. From April 23, 1990. Sung in German. Run Time: 2 hrs 40 min.
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Thursday, October 8: Wagner’s Die Walküre
Starring Hildegard Behrens, Jessye Norman, Christa Ludwig, Gary Lakes, James Morris, and Kurt Moll, conducted by James Levine. From April 8, 1989. Sung in German. Run Time: 3 hrs 57min.
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Friday, October 9: Wagner’s Siegfried
Starring Hildegard Behrens, Siegfried Jerusalem, and James Morris, conducted by James Levine; From April 26, 1990. Sung in German. Run Time: 4 hrs 8 min.
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Saturday, October 10: Wagner’s Götterdämmerung
Starring Hildegard Behrens, Christa Ludwig, Siegfried Jerusalem, and Matti Salminen, conducted by James Levine. From May 5, 1990. Sung in German.
Run Time: 4 hrs 35 min.
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Sunday, October 11: Wagner’s Parsifal
Starring Katarina Dalayman, Jonas Kaufmann, Peter Mattei, Evgeny Nikitin, and René Pape, conducted by Daniele Gatti. From March 2, 2013. Sung in German. Run Time: 4 hrs 50 min.
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Week 31 (October 12, 2020 – October 18, 2020): Donizetti Week
Monday, October 12: Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor
Starring Anna Netrebko, Piotr Beczała, Mariusz Kwiecień, and Ildar Abdrazakov, conducted by Marco Armiliato. From February 7, 2009. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 22 min.
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Tuesday, October 13: Donizetti’s La Fille du Régiment
Starring Natalie Dessay, Felicity Palmer, Juan Diego Flórez, and Alessandro Corbelli, conducted by Marco Armiliato. From April 26, 2008. Sung in French. Run Time: 2 hrs 19 min.
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Wednesday, October 14: Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’Amore
Starring Pretty Yende, Matthew Polenzani, Davide Luciano, and Ildebrando D’Arcangelo, conducted by Domingo Hindoyan. From February 10, 2018. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 22 min.
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Thursday, October 15: Donizetti’s Anna Bolena
Starring Anna Netrebko, Ekaterina Gubanova, Tamara Mumford, Stephen Costello, and Ildar Abdrazakov, conducted by Marco Armiliato. From October 15, 2011. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 3 hrs 10 min.
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Friday, October 16: Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda
Starring Elza van den Heever, Joyce DiDonato, Matthew Polenzani, Joshua Hopkins, and Matthew Rose, conducted by Maurizio Benini. From January 19, 2013. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 41 min.
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Saturday, October 17: Donizetti’s Roberto Devereux
Starring Sondra Radvanovsky, Elīna Garanča, Matthew Polenzani, and Mariusz Kwiecień, conducted by Maurizio Benini. From April 16, 2016. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 40 min.
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Sunday, October 18: Donizetti’s Don Pasquale
Starring Anna Netrebko, Matthew Polenzani, Mariusz Kwiecień, and John Del Carlo, conducted by James Levine. From November 13, 2010. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 22 min.
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Week 32 (October 19, 2020 – October 25, 2020): Operatic Comedies
Monday, October 19: Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia
Starring Joyce DiDonato, Juan Diego Flórez, Peter Mattei, John Del Carlo, and John Relyea, conducted by Maurizio Benini. From March 24, 2007. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 45 min.
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Tuesday, October 20: Lehár’s The Merry Widow
Starring Renée Fleming, Kelli O’Hara, Nathan Gunn, Alek Shrader, and Thomas Allen, conducted by Sir Andrew Davis. From January 17, 2015. Sung in English. Run Time: 2 hrs 28 min.
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Wednesday, October 21: Mozart’s Così fan tutte
Starring Amanda Majeski, Serena Malfi, Kelli O’Hara, Ben Bliss, Adam Plachetka, and Christopher Maltman, conducted by David Robertson. From March 31, 2018. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 3 hrs 15 min.
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Thursday, October 22: Rossini’s La Cenerentola
Starring Cecilia Bartoli, Ramón Vargas, Simone Alaimo, and Alessandro Corbelli, conducted by James Levine. From October 27, 1997. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 30 min.
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Friday, October 23: Verdi’s Falstaff
Starring Mirella Freni, Barbara Bonney, Marilyn Horne, Bruno Pola, and Paul Plishka, conducted by James Levine. From October 10, 1992. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 8 min.
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Saturday, October 24: Rossini’s Le Comte Ory
Starring Diana Damrau, Joyce DiDonato, Susanne Resmark, Juan Diego Flórez, Stéphane Degout, and Michele Pertusi, conducted by Maurizio Benini. From April 9, 2011. Sung in French. Run Time: 2 hrs 23 min.
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Sunday, October 25: Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier
Starring Renée Fleming, Elīna Garanča, Erin Morley, Matthew Polenzani, Marcus Brück, and Günther Groissböck, conducted by Sebastian Weigle. From May 13, 2017. Sung in German. Run Time: 3 hrs 48 min.
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Week 33 (October 26, 2020 – November 1, 2020): Politics in Opera
Monday, October 26: Verdi’s Don Carlo
Starring Renata Scotto, Tatiana Troyanos, Vasile Moldoveanu, Sherrill Milnes, and Paul Plishka, conducted by James Levine. From February 21, 1980. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 3 hrs 22 min.
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Tuesday, October 27: Handel’s Agrippina
Starring Brenda Rae, Joyce DiDonato, Kate Lindsey, Iestyn Davies, Duncan Rock, and Matthew Rose, conducted by Harry Bicket. From February 29, 2020. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 3 hrs 25 min.
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Wednesday, October 28: Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra
Starring Adrianne Pieczonka, Marcello Giordani, Plácido Domingo, and James Morris, conducted by James Levine. From February 6, 2010. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 29 min.
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Thursday, October 29: John Adams’s Nixon in China
Starring Kathleen Kim, Janis Kelly, Robert Brubaker, Russell Braun, James Maddalena, and Richard Paul Fink, conducted by John Adams. From February 12, 2011. Sung in English. Run Time: 2 hrs 56 min.
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Friday, October 30: Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov
Starring Ekaterina Semenchuk, Aleksandrs Antonenko, Oleg Balashov, Evgeny Nikitin, René Pape, Mikhail Petrenko, and Vladimir Ognovenko, conducted by Valery Gergiev. From October 23, 2010. Sung in Russian. Run Time: 3 hrs 23 min.
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Saturday, October 31: John Corigliano’s The Ghosts of Versailles
Starring Teresa Stratas, Håkan Hagegård, Gino Quilico, Graham Clark, Marilyn Horne, and Renée Fleming, conducted by James Levine. From January 10, 1992. Run Time: 3 hrs 00 min.
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Sunday, November 1: Philip Glass’s Satyagraha
Starring Rachelle Durkin, Richard Croft, Kim Josephson, and Alfred Walker, conducted by Dante Anzolini. From November 19, 2011. Sung in Sanskrit. Run Time: 3 hrs 4 min.
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Weeks 34 (November 2, 2020 – November 8, 2020): A Two-Week Tour of Opera History, Part I From Handel to Wagner
Monday, November 2: Handel’s Rodelinda
Starring Renée Fleming, Stephanie Blythe, Andreas Scholl, Iestyn Davies, Joseph Kaiser, and Shenyang, conducted by Harry Bicket. From December 3, 2011. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 3 hrs 17 min.
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Tuesday, November 3: Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice
Starring Danielle de Niese, Heidi Grant Murphy, and Stephanie Blythe, conducted by James Levine. From January 24, 2009. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 1 hrs 39 min.
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Wednesday, November 4: Mozart’s Idomeneo
Starring Elza van den Heever, Nadine Sierra, Alice Coote, Matthew Polenzani, and Alan Opie, conducted by James Levine. From March 25, 2017. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 3 hrs 22 min.
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Thursday, November 5: Rossini’s Semiramide
Starring Angela Meade, Elizabeth DeShong, Javier Camarena, Ildar Abdrazakov, and Ryan Speedo Green, conducted by Maurizio Benini. From March 10, 2018. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 3 hrs 22 min.
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Friday, November 6: Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette
Starring Anna Netrebko, Roberto Alagna, Nathan Gunn, and Robert Lloyd, conducted by Plácido Domingo. From December 15, 2007. Sung in French. Run Time: 2 hrs 51 min.
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Saturday, November 7: Verdi’s La Forza del Destino
Starring Leontyne Price, Giuseppe Giacomini, Leo Nucci, and Bonaldo Giaiotti, conducted by James Levine. From March 24, 1984. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 59 min.
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Sunday, November 8: Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Starring Annette Dasch, Johan Botha, Paul Appleby, and Michael Volle, conducted by James Levine. From December 13, 2014. Sung in German. Run Time: 4 hrs 49 min.
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Weeks 35 (November 9, 2020 – November 15, 2020): A Two-Week Tour of Opera History, Part II
Monday, November 9: Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta / Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle
Starring Anna Netrebko and Piotr Beczała in Iolanta, and Nadja Michael and Mikhail Petrenko in Bluebeard’s Castle, conducted by Valery Gergiev. From February 14, 2015. Sung in Russian/ Hungarian. Run Time: 3 hrs 6 min.
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Tuesday, November 10: Strauss’s Salome
Starring Karita Mattila, Ildikó Komlósi, Kim Begley, Joseph Kaiser, and Juha Uusitalo, conducted by Patrick Summers. From October 11, 2008. Sung in German. Run Time: 1 hrs 46 min.
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Wednesday, November 11: Puccini’s La Fanciulla del West
Starring Deborah Voigt, Marcello Giordani, and Lucio Gallo, conducted by Nicola Luisotti. From January 8, 2011. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 22 min.
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Thursday, November 12: Berg’s Lulu
Starring Marlis Petersen, Susan Graham, Daniel Brenna, Paul Groves, Johan Reuter, and Franz Grundheber, conducted by Lothar Koenigs. From November 21, 2015. Sung in German. Run Time: 3 hrs 22 min.
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Friday, November 13: Britten’s Peter Grimes
Starring Patricia Racette, Anthony Dean Griffey, and Anthony Michaels-Moore, conducted by Donald Runnicles. From March 15, 2008. Sung in English. Run Time: 2 hrs 48 min.
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Saturday, November 14: Philip Glass’s Akhnaten
Starring Dísella Lárusdóttir, J’Nai Bridges, Anthony Roth Costanzo, Aaron Blake, Will Liverman, Richard Bernstein, and Zachary James, conducted by Karen Kamensek. From November 23, 2019. Sung in various. Run Time: 2 hrs 52 min.
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Sunday, November 15: Thomas Adès’s The Exterminating Angel
Starring Audrey Luna, Amanda Echalaz, Sally Matthews, Sophie Bevan, Alice Coote, Christine Rice, Iestyn Davies, Joseph Kaiser, Frédéric Antoun, David Portillo, David Adam Moore, Rod Gilfry, Kevin Burdette, Christian Van Horn, and John Tomlinson, conducted by Thomas Adès. From November 18, 2017. Sung in English. Run Time: 2 hrs 22 min.
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Week 36 (November 16, 2020 – November 29, 2020): Yannick Week
Monday, November 16: Verdi’s Don Carlo
Starring Marina Poplavskaya, Roberto Alagna, Simon Keenlyside, and Ferruccio Furlanetto, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. From December 11, 2010. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 3 hrs 35 min.
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Tuesday, November 17: Gounod’s Faust
Starring Marina Poplavskaya, Jonas Kaufmann, and René Pape, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. From December 10, 2011. Sung in French. Run Time: 3 hrs 10 min.
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Wednesday, November 18: Dvořák’s Rusalka
Starring Renée Fleming, Emily Magee, Dolora Zajick, Piotr Beczała, and John Relyea, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. From February 8, 2014. Sung in Czech. Run Time: 2 hrs 56 min.
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Thursday, November 19: Verdi’s La Traviata
Starring Diana Damrau, Juan Diego Flórez, and Quinn Kelsey, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. From December 15, 2018. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 51 min.
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Friday, November 20: Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites
Starring Isabel Leonard, Adrianne Pieczonka, and Karita Mattila, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. From May 11, 2019. Sung in French. Run Time: 2 hrs 53 min.
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Saturday, November 21: Puccini’s Turandot
Starring Christine Goerke, Eleonora Buratto, Yusif Eyvazov, and James Morris, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. From October 12, 2019. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 23 min.
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Sunday, November 22: Berg’s Wozzeck
Starring Elza van den Heever, Tamara Mumford, Christopher Ventris, Gerhard Siegel, Andrew Staples, Peter Mattei, and Christian Van Horn, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. From January 11, 2020. Sung in German. Run Time: 1 hrs 51 min.
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Week 37 (November 23, 2020 – November 29, 2020) : Family Drama
Monday, November 23: Verdi’s Il Trovatore
Starring Sondra Radvanovsky, Dolora Zajick, Marcelo Álvarez, and Dmitri Hvorostovsky, conducted by Marco Armiliato. From April 30, 2011. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 29 min.
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Tuesday, November 24: Nico Muhly’s Marnie
Starring Isabel Leonard, Iestyn Davies, and Christopher Maltman, conducted by Roberto Spano. From November 10, 2018. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 22 min.
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Wednesday, November 25: Thomas’s Hamlet
Starring Marlis Petersen, Jennifer Larmore, Simon Keenlyside, and James Morris, conducted by Louis Langrée. From March 27, 2010. Sung in French. Run Time: 2 hrs 49 min.
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Thursday, November 26: Strauss’s Elektra
Starring Nina Stemme, Adrianne Pieczonka, Waltraud Meier, and Eric Owens, conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen. From April 30, 2016. Sung in German. Run Time: 1 hrs 52 min.
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Friday, November 27: Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor
Starring Natalie Dessay, Joseph Calleja, Ludovic Tézier, and Kwangchul Youn, conducted by Patrick Summers. From March 19, 2011. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 22 min.
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Saturday, November 28: Wagner’s Die Walküre
Starring Christine Goerke, Eva-Maria Westbroek, Jamie Barton, Stuart Skelton, Greer Grimsley, and Günther Groissböck, conducted by Philippe Jordan. From March 30, 2019. Sung in German. Run Time: 3 hrs 53 min.
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Sunday, November 29: Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra
Starring Kiri Te Kanawa, Plácido Domingo, Vladimir Chernov, and Robert Lloyd, conducted by James Levine. From January 26, 1995. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 20 min.
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Week 38 (November 30, 2020 – December 6, 2020): Stars in Signature Roles
Monday, November 30: Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin
Starring Renée Fleming, Ramón Vargas, and Dmitri Hvorostovsky, conducted by Valery Gergiev. From February 24, 2007. Sung in Russian. Run Time: 2 hrs 51 min.
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Tuesday, December 1: Verdi’s Aida
Starring Leontyne Price, Fiorenza Cossotto, James McCracken, and Simon Estes, conducted by James Levine. From January 3, 1985. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 45 min.
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Wednesday, December 2: Wagner’s Parsifal
Starring Katarina Dalayman, Jonas Kaufmann, Peter Mattei, Evgeny Nikitin, and René Pape, conducted by Daniele Gatti. From March 2, 2013. Sung in German. Run Time: 4 hrs 50 min.
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Thursday, December 3: Verdi’s Macbeth
Starring Anna Netrebko, Joseph Calleja, Željko Lučić, and René Pape, conducted by Fabio Luisi.From October 11, 2014. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 49 min.
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Friday, December 4: Bizet’s Carmen
Starring Barbara Frittoli, Elīna Garanča, Roberto Alagna, and Teddy Tahu Rhodes, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. From January 16, 2010. Sung in French. Run Time: 2 hrs 46 min.
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Saturday, December 5: Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos
Starring Jessye Norman, Kathleen Battle, Tatiana Troyanos, and James King, conducted by James Levine. From March 12, 1988. Sung in German. Run Time: 2 hrs 11 min.
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Sunday, December 6: Puccini’s Tosca
Starring Shirley Verrett, Luciano Pavarotti, and Cornell MacNeil, conducted by James Conlon. From December 19, 1978. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 4 min.
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Week 39 (December 7, 2020 – December 13, 2020): In Plain English
Monday, December 7: Thomas Adès’s The Tempest
Starring Audrey Luna, Isabel Leonard, Iestyn Davies, Alek Shrader, Alan Oke, William Burden, Toby Spence, and Simon Keenlyside, conducted by Thomas Adès. From November 10, 2012. Sung in English. Run Time: 2 hrs 22 min.
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Tuesday, December 8: John Adams’ Doctor Atomic
Starring Sasha Cooke, Thomas Glenn, Gerald Finley, Richard Paul Fink, and Eric Owens, conducted by Alan Gilbert. From November 8, 2008. Sung in English. Run Time: 2 hrs 46 min.
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Wednesday, December 9: Britten’s Peter Grimes
Starring Patricia Racette, Anthony Dean Griffey, and Anthony Michaels-Moore, conducted by Sir Donald Runnicles. From March 15, 2008. Sung in English. Run Time: 2 hrs 48 min.
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Thursday, December 10: Thomas Adès’s The Exterminating Angel
Starring Audrey Luna, Amanda Echalaz, Sally Matthews, Sophie Bevan, Alice Coote, Christine Rice, Iestyn Davies, Joseph Kaiser, Frédéric Antoun, David Portillo, David Adam Moore, Rod Gilfry, Kevin Burdette, Christian Van Horn, and John Tomlinson. conducted by Thomas Adès. From November 18, 2017. Sung in English. Run Time: 2 hrs 22 min.
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Friday, December 11: The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess
Starring Angel Blue, Golda Schultz, Latonia Moore, Denyce Graves, Frederick Ballentine, Eric Owens, Alfred Walker, and Donovan Singletary, conducted by David Robertson. From February 1, 2020. Sung in English. Run Time: 3 hrs 10 min.
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Saturday, December 12: Weill’s Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
Starring Teresa Stratas, Astrid Varnay, Richard Cassilly, and Cornell MacNeil, conducted by James Levine. From November 27, 1979. Sung in English. Run Time: 2 hrs 27 min.
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Sunday, December 13: John Corigliano’s The Ghosts of Versailles
Starring Teresa Stratas, Håkan Hagegård, Gino Quilico, Graham Clark, Marilyn Horne, and Renée Fleming, conducted by James Levine. From January 10, 1992. Sung in English. Run Time: 3 hrs 00 min.
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Week 40 (December 14, 2020 – December 20, 2020): Epic Proportions
Monday, December 14: Saint-Saëns’ Samson et Dalila
Starring Elīna Garanča, Roberto Alagna, Laurent Naouri, Elchin Azizov, and Dmitry Belosselskiy, conducted by Sir Mark Elder. From October 20, 2018. Sung in French. Run Time: 2 hrs 22 min.
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Tuesday, December 15: Wagner’s Lohengrin
Starring Eva Marton, Leonie Rysanek, Peter Hofmann, Leif Roar, and John Macurdy, conducted by James Levine. From January 10, 1986. Sung in German. Run Time: 3 hrs 43 min.
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Wednesday, December 16: Berlioz’s Les Troyens
Starring Deborah Voigt, Susan Graham, Karen Cargill, Bryan Hymel, Eric Cutler, Dwayne Croft, and Kwangchoul Youn, conducted by Fabio Luisi. From January 5, 2013. Sung in French. Run Time: 4 hrs 20 min.
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Thursday, December 17: Zandonai’s Francesca da Rimini
Starring Renata Scotto, Plácido Domingo, and Cornell MacNeil, conducted by James Levine. From April 7, 1984. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 29 min.
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Friday, December 18: Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov
Starring Ekaterina Semenchuk, Aleksandrs Antonenko, Oleg Balashov, Evgeny Nikitin, René Pape, Mikhail Petrenko, and Vladimir Ognovenko, conducted by Valery Gergiev. From October 23, 2010. Sung in Russian. Run Time: 3 hrs 23 min.
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Saturday, December 19: Verdi’s Nabucco
Starring Liudmyla Monastyrska, Jamie Barton, Russell Thomas, Plácido Domingo, and Dmitry Belosselskiy, conducted by James Levine. From January 7, 2017. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 30 min.
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Sunday, December 20: Wagner’s Götterdämmerung
Starring Deborah Voigt, Wendy Bryn Harmer, Waltraud Meier, Jay Hunter Morris, Iain Paterson, Eric Owens, and Hans-Peter König, conducted by Fabio Luisi. From February 11, 2012. Sung in German. Run Time: 4 hrs 45 min.
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Week 41 (December 20, 2020 – December 27, 2020): Holiday Fare
Monday, December 21: Mozart’s The Magic Flute
Starring Ying Huang, Erika Miklósa, Matthew Polenzani, Nathan Gunn, and René Pape, conducted by James Levine. From December 30, 2006. Sung in English. Run Time: 1 hrs 52 min.
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Tuesday, December 22: Massenet’s Cendrillon
Starring Kathleen Kim, Joyce DiDonato, Alice Coote, Stephanie Blythe, and Laurent Naouri, conducted by Bertrand de Billy. From April 28, 2018. Sung in Frnch. Run Time: 2 hrs 22 min.
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Wednesday, December 23: Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia
Starring Isabel Leonard, Lawrence Brownlee, Christopher Maltman, Maurizo Muraro, and Paata Burchuladze, conducted by Michele Mariotti. From November 22, 2014. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 48 min.
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Thursday, December 24: Puccini’s La Bohème
Starring Teresa Stratas, Renata Scotto, José Carreras, Richard Stilwell, and James Morris, conducted by James Levine. From January 16, 1982. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 4 min.
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Friday, December 25: Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel
Starring Christine Schäfer, Alice Coote, Rosalind Plowright, Philip Langridge, and Alan Held, conducted by Vladimir Jurowski. From January 1, 2008. Sung in English. Run Time: 2 hrs 00 min.
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Saturday, December 26: Lehár’s The Merry Widow
Starring Renée Fleming, Kelli O’Hara, Nathan Gunn, Alek Shrader, and Sir Thomas Allen, conducted by Sir Andrew Davis. From January 17, 2015. Sung in English. Run Time: 2 hrs 28 min.
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Sunday, December 27: Verdi’s Falstaff
Starring Lisette Oropesa, Angela Meade, Stephanie Blythe, Jennifer Johnson Cano, Paolo Fanale, Ambrogio Maestri, and Franco Vassallo, conducted by James Levine. From December 14, 2013. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 21 min.
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Week 42 (December 28, 2020 – January 3, 2021): Pavarotti Week
Monday, December 28, 2020: Puccini’s La Bohème
Starring Renata Scotto, Maralin Niska, Luciano Pavarotti, Ingvar Wixell, and Paul Plishka, conducted by James Levine. From March 15, 1977. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 02 min.
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Tuesday, December 29, 2020: Puccini’s Tosca
Starring Shirley Verrett, Luciano Pavarotti, and Cornell MacNeil, conducted by James Conlon. From December 19, 1978. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 04 min.
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Wednesday, December 30, 2020: Verdi’s Rigoletto
Starring Christiane Eda-Pierre, Isola Jones, Luciano Pavarotti, Louis Quilico, and Ara Berberian, conducted by James Levine. From December 15, 1981. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 05 min.
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Thursday, December 31, 2020: Verdi’s Ernani
Starring Leona Mitchell, Luciano Pavarotti, Sherrill Milnes, and Ruggero Raimondi, conducted by James Levine. From December 17, 1983. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 20 min.
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Friday, January 1, 2021: Verdi’s Il Trovatore
Starring Eva Marton, Dolora Zajick, Luciano Pavarotti, Sherrill Milnes, and Jeffrey Wells, conducted by James Levine. From October 15, 1988. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 13 min.
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Saturday, January 2, 2021: Verdi’s Un Ballo in Maschera
Starring Aprile Millo, Harolyn Blackwell, Florence Quivar, Luciano Pavarotti, and Leo Nucci, conducted by James Levine. From January 26, 1991. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 15 min.
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Sunday, January 3:, 2021 Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’Amore
Starring Kathleen Battle, Luciano Pavarotti, Juan Pons, and Enzo Dara, conducted by James Levine. From November 16, 1991. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 07 min.
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Week 43 (January 4, 2021 – January 10, 2021) : Epic Rivalries
Monday, January 4: Cilea’s Adriana Lecouvreur
Starring Anna Netrebko, Anita Rachvelishvili, Piotr Beczała, Carlo Bosi, Ambrogio Maestri, and Maurizio Muraro, conducted by Gianandrea Noseda. From January 12, 2019. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 22 min.
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Tuesday, January 5: Rossini’s La Donna del Lago
Starring Joyce DiDonato, Daniela Barcellona, Juan Diego Flórez, John Osborn, and Oren Gradus, conducted by Michele Mariotti. From March 14, 2015. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 52 min.
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Wednesday, January 6: Bizet’s Les Pêcheurs de Perles
Starring Diana Damrau, Matthew Polenzani, Mariusz Kwiecien, and Nicolas Testé, conducted by Gianandrea Noseda. From January 16, 2016. Sung in French. Run Time: 2 hrs 15 min.
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Thursday, January 7: Bellini’s I Puritani
Starring Anna Netrebko, Eric Cutler, Franco Vassallo, and John Relyea, conducted by Patrick Summers. From January 6, 2007. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 35 min.
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Friday, January 8: Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana and Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci
Starring Eva-Maria Westbroek, Jane Bunnell, Marcelo Álvarez, George Gagnidze; Patricia Racette, Marcelo Álvarez, George Gagnidze, and Lucas Meachem, conducted by Fabio Luisi. From April 25, 2015. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 53 min.
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Saturday, January 9: Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda
Starring Elza van den Heever, Joyce DiDonato, Matthew Polenzani, Joshua Hopkins, and Matthew Rose, conducted by Maurizio Benini. From January 19, 2013. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 41 min.
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Sunday, January 10: Verdi’s Il Trovatore
Starring Sondra Radvanovsky, Dolora Zajick, Marcelo Álvarez, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, and Stefan Kocán, conducted by Marco Armiliato. From April 30, 2011. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 29 min.
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Week 44 (January 11, 2021 – January 17, 2021) :
Renée Fleming Week
Monday, January 11: Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro
Starring Renée Fleming, Cecilia Bartoli, Susanne Mentzer, Dwayne Croft, and Bryn Terfel, conducted by James Levine. From November 11, 1998. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 3 hrs 03 min.
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Tuesday, January 12: Massenet’s Thaïs
Starring Renée Fleming, Michael Schade, and Thomas Hampson, conducted by Jesús López-Cobos. From December 20, 2008. Sung in French. Run Time: 2 hrs 18 min.
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Wednesday, January 13: Strauss’Der Rosenkavalier
Starring Renée Fleming, Christine Schäfer, Susan Graham, Eric Cutler, Thomas Allen, and Kristinn Sigmundsson, conducted by Edo de Waart. From January 9, 2010. Sung in German. Run Time: 3 hrs 18 min.
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Thursday, January 14: Rossini’s Armida
Starring Renée Fleming, Lawrence Brownlee, Barry Banks, John Osborn, and Kobie van Rensburg, conducted by Riccardo Frizza. From May 1, 2010. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 51 min.
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Friday, January 15: Strauss’Capriccio
Starring Renée Fleming, Sarah Connolly, Joseph Kaiser, Russell Braun, Morten Frank Larsen, and Peter Rose, conducted by Sir Andrew Davis. From April 23, 2011. Sung in German. Run Time: 2 hrs 28 min.
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Saturday, January 16: Handel’s Rodelinda
Starring Renée Fleming, Stephanie Blythe, Andreas Scholl, Iestyn Davies, Joseph Kaiser, and Shenyang, conducted by Harry Bicket. From December 3, 2011. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 3 hrs 17 min.
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Sunday, January 17: Dvořák’s Rusalka
Starring Renée Fleming, Emily Magee, Dolora Zajick, Piotr Beczala, and John Relyea, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. From February 8, 2014. Sung in Czech . Run Time: 2 hrs 52 min.
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Week 45 (January 18, 2021 – January 24, 2021):
Leading Ladies: Opera’s Greatest Heroines
Monday, January 18: Bizet’s Carmen
Starring Anita Hartig, Anita Rachvelishvili, Aleksandrs Antonenko, and Ildar Abdrazakov, conducted by Pablo Heras-Casado. From November 1, 2014. Sung in French. Run Time: 2 hrs 51 min.
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Tuesday, January 19: Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor
Starring Anna Netrebko, Piotr Beczała, Mariusz Kwiecień, and Ildar Abdrazakov, conducted by Marco Armiliato. From February 7, 2009. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 22 min.
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Wednesday, January 20: Bellini’s Norma
Starring Sondra Radvanovsky, Joyce DiDonato, Joseph Calleja, and Matthew Rose, conducted by Carlo Rizzi. From October 7, 2017. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 3 hrs 04 min.
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Thursday, January 21: Verdi’s La Traviata
Starring Natalie Dessay, Matthew Polenzani, and Dmitri Hvorostovsky, conducted by Fabio Luisi. From April 14, 2012. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 16 min.
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Friday, January 22: Puccini’s Tosca
Starring Hildegard Behrens, Plácido Domingo, and Cornell MacNeil, conducted by Giuseppe Sinopoli. From March 27, 1985. Sung in . Run Time: 2 hrs 03 min.
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Saturday, January 23: Massenet’s Manon
Starring Lisette Oropesa, Michael Fabiano, Carlo Bosi, Artur Ruciński, Brett Polegato, and Kwangchul Youn, conducted by Maurizio Benini. From October 26, 2019. Sung in French. Run Time: 2 hrs 56 min.
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Sunday, January 24: Wagner’s Die Walküre
Starring Deborah Voigt, Eva-Maria Westbroek, Stephanie Blythe, Jonas Kaufmann, Bryn Terfel, and Hans-Peter König, conducted by James Levine. From May 14, 2011. Sung in German. Run Time: 4 hrs 20 min.
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Week 46 (January 25, 2021 – January 31, 2021):
The Antiheroes
Monday, January 25: Mozart’s Don Giovanni
Starring Hibla Gerzmava, Malin Byström, Serena Malfi, Paul Appleby, Simon Keenlyside, Adam Plachetka, Matthew Rose, and Kwangchul Youn, conducted by Fabio Luisi. From October 22, 2016. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 3 hrs 13 min.
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Tuesday, January 26: Rossini’s Le Comte Ory
Starring Diana Damrau, Joyce DiDonato, Susanne Resmark, Juan Diego Flórez, Stéphane Degout, and Michele Pertusi, conducted by Maurizio Benini. From April 9, 2011. Sung in French. Run Time: 2 hrs 23 min.
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Wednesday, January 27: Gounod’s Faust
Starring Marina Poplavskaya, Jonas Kaufmann, and René Pape, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. From December 10, 2011. Sung in French. Run Time: 3 hrs 10 min.
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Thursday, January 28: Verdi’s Falstaff
Starring Lisette Oropesa, Angela Meade, Stephanie Blythe, Jennifer Johnson Cano, Paolo Fanale, Ambrogio Maestri, and Franco Vassallo, conducted by James Levine. From December 14, 2013. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 21 min.
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Friday, January 29: Wagner’s Der Fliegende Holländer
Starring Anja Kampe, Mihoko Fujimura, Sergey Skorokhodov, David Portillo, Evgeny Nikitin, and Franz-Josef Selig, conducted by Valery Gergiev. From March 10, 2020. Sung in German. Run Time: 2 hrs 24 min.
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Saturday, January 30: Verdi’s Rigoletto
Starring Diana Damrau, Oksana Volkova, Piotr Beczała, Željko Lučić, and Štefan Kocán, conducted by Michele Mariotti. From February 16, 2013. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 31 min.
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Sunday, January 31: Verdi’s Macbeth
Starring Maria Guleghina, Dimitri Pittas, Željko Lučić, and John Relyea, conducted by James Levine. From January 12, 2008. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 35 min.
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Week 47 (February 1, 2021 – February 7, 2021): Black History Month at the Met, Part I
Monday, February 1: The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess
Starring Angel Blue, Golda Schultz, Latonia Moore, Denyce Graves, Frederick Ballentine, Eric Owens, Alfred Walker, and Donovan Singletary, conducted by David Robertson. Production by James Robinson. From February 1, 2020. Sung in English. Run Time: 3 hrs 10 min.
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Tuesday, February 2: Verdi’s La Forza del Destino
Starring Leontyne Price, Isola Jones, Giuseppe Giacomini, Leo Nucci, and Bonaldo Giaiotti, conducted by James Levine. Production by John Dexter. From March 24, 1984. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 59 min.
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Wednesday, February 3: Poulenc’s Dialogues of the Carmelites
Starring Maria Ewing, Jessye Norman, Betsy Norden, Régine Crespin, and Florence Quivar, conducted by Manuel Rosenthal. Production by John Dexter. From April 4, 1987. Sung in French. Run Time: 2 hrs 49 min.
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Thursday, February 4: Rossini’s La Cenerentola
Starring Elina Garanča, Lawrence Brownlee, Simone Alberghini, Alessandro Corbelli, and John Relyea, conducted by Maurizio Benini. Production by Cesare Lievi. From May 9, 2009. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 43 min.
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Friday, February 5: Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro
Starring Carol Vaness, Kathleen Battle, Frederica von Stade, Thomas Allen, and Ruggero Raimondi, conducted by James Levine. Production by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle. From December 14, 1985. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 3 hrs 12 min.
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Saturday, February 6: Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos
Starring Jessye Norman, Kathleen Battle, Tatiana Troyanos, and James King, conducted by James Levine. Production by Bodo Igesz. From March 12, 1988. Sung in German. Run Time: 2 hrs 11 min.
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Sunday, February 7: Puccini’s Tosca
Starring Shirley Verrett, Luciano Pavarotti, and Cornell MacNeil, conducted by James Conlon. Directed by Tito Gobbi. From December 19, 1978. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 04 min.
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Week 48 (February 8, 2021 – February 14, 2021): Black History Month at the Met, Part II
Monday, February 8: Wagner’s Das Rheingold
Starring Wendy Bryn Harmer, Stephanie Blythe, Patricia Bardon, Richard Croft, Gerhard Siegel, Dwayne Croft, Bryn Terfel, Eric Owens, Franz-Josef Selig, and Hans-Peter König, conducted by James Levine. Production by Robert Lepage. From October 9, 2010. Sung in German. Run Time: 2 hrs 53 min.
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Tuesday, February 9: Verdi’s Ernani
Starring Leona Mitchell, Luciano Pavarotti, Sherrill Milnes, and Ruggero Raimondi, conducted by James Levine. Production by Pier Luigi Samaritani. From December 17, 1983. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 20 min.
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Wednesday, February 10: Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia
Starring Kathleen Battle, Rockwell Blake, Leo Nucci, Enzo Dara, and Ferruccio Furlanetto, conducted by Ralf Weikert. Production by John Cox. From December 3, 1988. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 39 min.
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Thursday, February 11: Verdi’s Un Ballo in Maschera
Starring Aprile Millo, Harolyn Blackwell, Florence Quivar, Luciano Pavarotti, and Leo Nucci, conducted by James Levine. Production by Piero Faggioni. From January 26, 1991. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 15 min.
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Friday, February 12: Philip Glass’s 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. Sung in various. Run Time: 2 hrs 52 min.
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Saturday, February 13: Berlioz’s Les Troyens
Starring Tatiana Troyanos, Jessye Norman, Plácido Domingo, and Allan Monk, conducted by James Levine. Production by Fabrizio Melano. From October 8, 1983. Sung in French. Run Time: 4 hrs 10 min.
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Sunday, February 14: Wagner’s Die Walküre
Starring Hildegard Behrens, Jessye Norman, Christa Ludwig, Gary Lakes, James Morris, and Kurt Moll, conducted by James Levine. Production by Otto Schenk. From April 8, 1989. Sung in German. Run Time: 3 hrs 57 min.
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Week 49 (February 15, 2021 – February 21, 2021): Franco Zeffirelli Week
Monday, February 15: Puccini’s La Bohème
Starring Angela Gheorghiu, Ainhoa Arteta, Ramón Vargas, Ludovic Tézier, and Oren Gradus, conducted by Nicola Luisotti. Production by Franco Zeffirelli. From April 5, 2008. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 16 min.
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Tuesday, February 16: Verdi’s Falstaff
Starring Mirella Freni, Barbara Bonney, Marilyn Horne, Bruno Pola, and Paul Plishka, conducted by James Levine. Production by Franco Zeffirelli. From October 10, 1992. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 08 min.
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Wednesday, February 17: Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana and Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci
Starring Tatiana Troyanos, Jean Kraft, Plácido Domingo, and Vern Shinall; Teresa Stratas, Plácido Domingo, Sherrill Milnes, and Allan Monk, conducted by James Levine. Production by Franco Zeffirelli. From April 5, 1978. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 31min.
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Thursday, February 18: Puccini’s Tosca
Starring Hildegard Behrens, Plácido Domingo, and Cornell MacNeil, conducted by Giuseppe Sinopoli. Production by Franco Zeffirelli. From March 27, 1985. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 03 min.
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Friday, February 19: Mozart’s Don Giovanni
Starring Carol Vaness, Karita Mattila, Dawn Upshaw, Jerry Hadley, Samuel Ramey, Ferrucio Furlanetto, and Kurt Moll, conducted by James Levine. Production by Franco Zeffirelli. From April 5, 1990. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 58 min.
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Saturday, February 20: Bizet’s Carmen
Starring Angela Gheorghiu, Waltraud Meier, Plácido Domingo, and Sergei Leiferkus, conducted by James Levine. Production by Franco Zeffirelli. From March 25, 1997. Sung in French. Run Time: 2 hrs 34 min.
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Sunday, February 21: Puccini’s Turandot
Starring Maria Guleghina, Marina Poplavskaya, Marcello Giordani, and Samuel Ramey, conducted by Andris Nelsons. Production by Franco Zeffirelli. From November 7, 2009. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 08 min.
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Week 50 (February 22, 2021 – February 28, 2021): Dmitri Hvorostovsky Week
Monday, February 22: Verdi’s Il Trovatore
Starring Sondra Radvanovsky, Dolora Zajick, Marcelo Álvarez, and Dmitri Hvorostovsky, conducted by Marco Armiliato. Production by Sir David McVicar. From April 30, 2011. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 29 min.
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Tuesday, February 23: Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades
Starring Galina Gorchakova, Elisabeth Söderström, Plácido Domingo, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, and Nikolai Putilin, conducted by Valery Gergiev. Production by Elijah Moshinsky. From April 15, 1999. Sung in Russian. Run Time: 2 hrs 51 min.
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Wednesday, February 24: Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin
Starring Renée Fleming, Ramón Vargas, and Dmitri Hvorostovsky, conducted by Valery Gergiev. Production by Robert Carsen. From February 24, 2007. Sung in Russian. Run Time: 2 hrs 51 min.
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Thursday, February 25: Verdi’s Ernani
Starring Angela Meade, Marcello Giordani, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, and Ferruccio Furlanetto, conducted by Marco Armiliato. Production by Pier Luigi Samaritani. From February 25, 2012. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 22 min.
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Friday, February 26: Verdi’s La Traviata
Starring Natalie Dessay, Matthew Polenzani, and Dmitri Hvorostovsky, conducted by Fabio Luisi. Production by Willy Decker. From April 14, 2012. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 16 min.
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Saturday, February 27: Verdi’s Un Ballo in Maschera
Starring Sondra Radvanovsky, Kathleen Kim, Stephanie Blythe, Marcelo Álvarez, and Dmitri Hvorostovsky, conducted by Fabio Luisi. Production by David Alden. From December 8, 2012. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 41 min.
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Sunday, February 28: Verdi’s Il Trovatore
Starring Anna Netrebko, Dolora Zajick, Yonghoon Lee, and Dmitri Hvorostovsky, conducted by Marco Armiliato. Production by Sir David McVicar. From October 3, 2015. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 39 min.
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Week 51 (March 1, 2021 – March 7, 2021): Celebrating Women’s History Month
Monday, March 1: Donizetti’s Don Pasquale
Starring Beverly Sills, Alfredo Kraus, Håkan Hagegård, and Gabriel Bacquier, conducted by Nicola Rescigno. Production by John Dexter. From January 11, 1979. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 13 min.
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Tuesday, March 2: Verdi’s Falstaff
Starring Mirella Freni, Barbara Bonney, Marilyn Horne, Susan Graham, Paul Plishka, Frank Lopardo, and Bruno Pola, conducted by James Levine. Production by Franco Zeffirelli. From October 10, 1992. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 8 min.
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Wednesday, March 3: Wagner’s Die Walküre
Starring Hildegard Behrens, Jessye Norman, Christa Ludwig, Gary Lakes, James Morris, and Kurt Moll, conducted by James Levine. Production by Otto Schenk. From April 8, 1989. Sung in German. Run Time: 3 hrs 57 min.
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Thursday, March 4: Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte
Starring Golda Schultz, Kathryn Lewek, Charles Castronovo, Markus Werba, and René Pape, conducted by James Levine. Production by Julie Taymor. From October 14, 2017. Sung in German. Run Time: 3 hrs 00 min.
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Friday, March 5: Britten’s Peter Grimes
Starring Patricia Racette, Anthony Dean Griffey, and Anthony Michaels-Moore, conducted by Sir Donald Runnicles. Production by John Doyle. From March 15, 2008. Sung in English. Run Time: 2 hrs 48 min.
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Saturday, March 6: Dvořák’s Rusalka
Starring Renée Fleming, Emily Magee, Dolora Zajick, Piotr Beczała, and John Relyea, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Production by Otto Schenk. From February 8, 2014. Sung in Czech. Run Time: 2 hrs 52 min.
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Sunday, March 7: Verdi’s La Forza del Destino
Starring Leontyne Price, Giuseppe Giacomini, Leo Nucci, and Bonaldo Giaiotti, conducted by James Levine. Production by John Dexter. From March 24, 1984. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 59 min.
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Week 52 (March 8, 2021 – March 14, 2021): Verismo Passions
Monday, March 8: Puccini’s Manon Lescaut
Starring Renata Scotto, Plácido Domingo, Pablo Elvira, and Renato Capecchi, conducted by James Levine. Production by Gian Carlo Menotti. From March 29, 1980. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 10 min.
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Tuesday, March 9: Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana and Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci
Starring Eva-Maria Westbroek, Marcelo Álvarez, and George Gagnidze; Patricia Racette, Marcelo Álvarez, George Gagnidze, and Lucas Meachem, conducted by Fabio Luisi. Production by Sir David McVicar. From April 25, 2015. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 19 min.
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Wednesday, March 10: Cilea’s Adriana Lecouvreur
Starring Anna Netrebko, Anita Rachvelishvili, Piotr Beczała, and Ambrogio Maestri, conducted by Gianandrea Noseda. Production by Sir David McVicar. From January 12, 2019. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 22 min.
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Thursday, March 11: Zandonai’s Francesca da Rimini
Starring Eva-Maria Westbroek, Marcello Giordani, Robert Brubaker, and Mark Delavan, conducted by Marco Armiliato. Production by Piero Faggioni. From March 16, 2013. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 22 min.
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Friday, March 12: Giordano’s Fedora
Starring Mirella Freni, Ainhoa Arteta, Plácido Domingo, Dwayne Croft, and Jean-Yves Thibaudet, conducted by Roberto Abbado. Production by Beppe De Tomasi. From April 26, 1997. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 1 hrs 51 min.
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Saturday, March 13: Giordano’s Andrea Chénier
Starring Maria Guleghina, Wendy White, Stephanie Blythe, Luciano Pavarotti, and Juan Pons, conducted by James Levine. Production by Nicolas Joël. From October 15, 1996. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 02 min.
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Sunday, March 14: Puccini’s Tosca
Starring Sonya Yoncheva, Vittorio Grigolo, Željko Lučić, and Patrick Carfizzi, conducted by Emmanuel Villaume. Production by Sir David McVicar. From January 27, 2018. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 21 min.
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Reference：(1) Nightly Opera Streams, March 8-14, 2021, (2) Nightly Opera Streams, March 8-14, 2021: Playbills, (3) Weekly Guide: March 8-14, 2021
Week 53 (March 15, 2021 – March 21, 2021): Viewers’ Choice
Monday, March 15: Offenbach’s 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. Sung in French. Run Time: 2 hrs 49 min.
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Tuesday, March 16: Puccini’s 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. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 28 min.
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Wednesday, March 17: Donizetti’s Anna 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. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 3 hrs 10 min.
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Thursday, March 18: Philip Glass’s 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. Sung in various. Run Time: 2 hrs 52 min.
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Friday, March 19: Rossini’s Il 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. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 45 min.
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Saturday, March 20: Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin
Starring Renée Fleming, Ramón Vargas, and Dmitri Hvorostovsky, conducted by Valery Gergiev. Production by Robert Carsen. From February 24, 2007. Sung in Russian. Run Time: 2 hrs 51 min.
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Sunday, March 21: Handel’s Agrippina
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. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 3 hrs 25 min.
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Reference：(1) Nightly Opera Streams, March 15-21, 2021, (2) Nightly Opera Streams, March 15-21, 2021: Playbills, (3) Weekly Guide: March 15-21, 2021
Week 54 (March 22, 2021 – March 28, 2021): Myths and Legends
Monday, March 22: Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice
Starring Danielle de Niese, Heidi Grant Murphy, and Stephanie Blythe, conducted by James Levine. Production by Mark Morris. From January 24, 2009. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 1 hrs 39 min.
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Tuesday, March 23: Berlioz’s La Damnation de Faust
Starring Susan Graham, Marcello Giordani, and John Relyea, conducted by James Levine. Production by Robert Lepage. From November 22, 2008. Sung in French. Run Time: 2 hrs 22 min.
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Wednesday, March 24: Gluck’s Iphigénie en Tauride
Starring Susan Graham, Plácido Domingo, Paul Groves, and Gordon Hawkins, conducted by Patrick Summers. Production by Stephen Wadsworth. From February 26, 2011. Sung in French. Run Time: 1 hrs 55 min.
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Thursday, March 25: Strauss’s Elektra
Starring Nina Stemme, Adrianne Pieczonka, Waltraud Meier, and Eric Owens, conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen. Production by Patrice Chéreau. From April 30, 2016. Sung in German. Run Time: 1 hrs 52 min.
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Friday, March 26: Mozart’s Idomeneo
Starring Hildegard Behrens, Ileana Cotrubas, Frederica von Stade, Luciano Pavarotti, and John Alexander, conducted by James Levine. Production by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle. From November 6, 1982. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 3 hrs 01 min.
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Saturday, March 27: Mozart’s Don Giovanni
Starring Renée Fleming, Solveig Kringelborn, Hei-Kyung Hong, Paul Groves, Bryn Terfel, Ferruccio Furlanetto, and Sergei Koptchak, conducted by James Levine. Production by Franco Zeffirelli. From October 14, 2000. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 59 min.
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Sunday, March 28: Wagner’s Der Fliegende Holländer
Starring Anja Kampe, Mihoko Fujimura, Sergey Skorokhodov, David Portillo, Evgeny Nikitin, and Franz-Josef Selig, conducted by Valery Gergiev. Production by François Girard. From March 10, 2020. Sung in German. Run Time: 2 hrs 24 min.
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Reference：(1) Nightly Opera Streams, March 22-28, 2021, (2) Nightly Opera Streams, March 22-28, 2021: Playbills, (3) Weekly Guide: March 22-28, 2021
Week 55 (March 29, 2021 – April 4, 2021): Love Triangles
Monday, March 29: Bellini’s Norma
Starring Sondra Radvanovsky, Joyce DiDonato, Joseph Calleja, and Matthew Rose, conducted by Carlo Rizzi. Production by Sir David McVicar. From October 7, 2017. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 3 hrs 04 min.
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Tuesday, March 30: Strauss’s Capriccio
Starring Renée Fleming, Sarah Connolly, Joseph Kaiser, Russell Braun, Morten Frank Larsen, and Peter Rose, conducted by Sir Andrew Davis. Production by John Cox. From April 23, 2011. Sung in German. Run Time: 2 hrs 28 min.
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Wednesday, March 31: Donizetti’s Roberto Devereux
Starring Sondra Radvanovsky, Elīna Garanča, Matthew Polenzani, and Mariusz Kwiecień, conducted by Maurizio Benini. Production by Sir David McVicar. From April 16, 2016. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 40 min.
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Thursday, April 1: Verdi’s Il Trovatore
Starring Eva Marton, Dolora Zajick, Luciano Pavarotti, Sherrill Milnes, and Jeffrey Wells, conducted by James Levine. Production by Fabrizio Melano. From October 15, 1988. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 13 min.
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Friday, April 2: Massenet’s Werther
Starring Lisette Oropesa, Sophie Koch, Jonas Kaufmann, and David Bizic, conducted by Alain Altinoglu. Production by Sir Richard Eyre. From March 15, 2014. Sung in French. Run Time: 2 hrs 22 min.
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Saturday, April 3: Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’Amore
Starring Anna Netrebko, Matthew Polenzani, Mariusz Kwiecień, and Ambrogio Maestri, conducted by Maurizio Benini. Production by Bartlett Sher. From October 13, 2012. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 22 min.
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Sunday, April 4: Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde
Starring Nina Stemme, Ekaterina Gubanova, Stuart Skelton, Evgeny Nikitin, and René Pape, conducted by Sir Simon Rattle. Production by Mariusz Treliński. From October 8, 2016. Sung in German. Run Time: 4 hrs 19 min.
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Reference：(1) Nightly Opera Streams, March 29-April 4, 2021, (2) Nightly Opera Streams, March 29-April 4, 2021: Playbills, (3) Weekly Guide: March 29-April 4, 2021
Week 56 (April 5, 2021 – April 11, 2021): From Page to Stage
Monday, April 5: Gounod’s Faust
Starring Marina Poplavskaya, Jonas Kaufmann, and René Pape, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Production by Des McAnuff. From December 10, 2011. Sung in French. Run Time: 3 hrs 10 min.
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Tuesday, April 6: Verdi’s Rigoletto
Starring Christiane Eda-Pierre, Isola Jones, Luciano Pavarotti, Louis Quilico, and Ara Berberian, conducted by James Levine. Production by John Dexter. From December 15, 1981. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 5 min.
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Wednesday, April 7: Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin
Starring Anna Netrebko, Elena Maximova, Alexey Dolgov, Peter Mattei, and Štefan Kocán, conducted by Robin Ticciati. Production by Deborah Warner. From April 22, 2017. Sung in Russian. Run Time: 2 hrs 51 min.
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Thursday, April 8: Zandonai’s Francesca da Rimini
Starring Renata Scotto, Plácido Domingo, and Cornell MacNeil, conducted by James Levine. Production by Piero Faggioni. From April 7, 1984. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 29 min.
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Friday, April 9: Shostakovich’s The Nose
Starring Andrey Popov, Alexander Lewis, and Paulo Szot, conducted by Pavel Smelkov. Production by William Kentridge. From October 26, 2013. Sung in Russian. Run Time: 2 hrs 01min.
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Saturday, April 10: Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette
Starring Anna Netrebko, Roberto Alagna, Nathan Gunn, and Robert Lloyd, conducted by Plácido Domingo. Production by Guy Joosten. From December 15, 2007. Sung in French. Run Time: 2 hrs 51 min.
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Sunday, April 11: Verdi’s Luisa Miller
Starring Sonya Yoncheva, Olesya Petrova, Piotr Beczała, Plácido Domingo, Alexander Vinogradov, and Dmitry Belosselskiy, conducted by Bertrand de Billy. Production by Elijah Moshinsky. From April 14, 2018. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 37 min.
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Reference：(1) Nightly Opera Streams, April 5 -April 11, 2021, (2) Nightly Opera Streams, April 5 – April 11, 2021: Playbills, (3) Weekly Guide: April 5 – April 11, 2021
Week 57 (April 12, 2021 – April 18, 2021): Once Upon a Time
Monday, April 12: Massenet’s Cendrillon
Starring Kathleen Kim, Joyce DiDonato, Alice Coote, Stephanie Blythe, and Laurent Naouri, conducted by Bertrand de Billy. Production by Laurent Pelly. From April 28, 2018. Sung in French. Run Time: 2 hrs 22 min.
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Tuesday, April 13: Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta / Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle
Starring Anna Netrebko and Piotr Beczała in Iolanta, and Nadja Michael and Mikhail Petrenko in Bluebeard’s Castle, conducted by Valery Gergiev. Production by Mariusz Treliński. From February 14, 2015. Sung in Russian/Hungarian. Run Time: 3 hrs 06 min.
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Wednesday, April 14: Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte
Starring Golda Schultz, Kathryn Lewek, Charles Castronovo, Markus Werba, and René Pape, conducted by James Levine. Production by Julie Taymor. From October 14, 2017. Sung in German. Run Time: 3 hrs 00 min.
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Thursday, April 15: Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel
Starring Judith Blegen, Frederica von Stade, Jean Kraft, Rosalind Elias, and Michael Devlin, conducted by Thomas Fulton. Production by Nathaniel Merrill. From December 25, 1982. Sung in English. Run Time: 1 hrs 42 min.
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Friday, April 16: Dvořák’s Rusalka
Starring Kristine Opolais, Katarina Dalayman, Jamie Barton, Brandon Jovanovich, and Eric Owens, conducted by Sir Mark Elder. Production by Mary Zimmerman. From February 25, 2017. Sung in Czech. Run Time: 2 hrs 56 min.
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Saturday, April 17: Puccini’s Turandot
Starring Eva Marton, Leona Mitchell, Plácido Domingo, and Paul Plishka, conducted by James Levine. Production by Franco Zeffirelli. From April 4, 1987. Sung in Italian. Run Time:2 hrs 12 min.
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Sunday, April 18: Rossini’s La Cenerentola
Starring Joyce DiDonato, Juan Diego Flórez, Pietro Spagnoli, Alessandro Corbelli, and Luca Pisaroni, conducted by Fabio Luisi. Production by Cesare Lievi. From May 10, 2014 Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 52 min.
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Reference：(1) Nightly Opera Streams, April 12 -April 18, 2021, (2) Nightly Opera Streams, April 12 – April 18, 2021: Playbills, (3) Weekly Guide: April 12 – April 18, 2021
Week 58 (April 19, 2021 – April 23, 2021): Moral Authority
Monday, April 19: Wagner’s Lohengrin
Starring Eva Marton, Leonie Rysanek, Peter Hofmann, Leif Roar, and John Macurdy, conducted by James Levine. Production by August Everding. From January 10, 1986. Sung in German. Run Time: 3 hrs 43 min.
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Tuesday, April 20: Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito
Starring Lucy Crowe, Barbara Frittoli, Elina Garanča, Kate Lindsey, Giuseppe Filianoti, and Oren Gradus, conducted by Harry Bicket. Production by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle. From December 1, 2012. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 35 min.
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Wednesday, April 21: Puccini’s La Fanciulla del West
Starring Deborah Voigt, Marcello Giordani, and Lucio Gallo, conducted by Nicola Luisotti. Production by Giancarlo Del Monaco. From January 8, 2011. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 22 min.
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Thursday, April 22: Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra
Starring Anna Tomowa-Sintow, Vasile Moldoveanu, Sherrill Milnes, and Paul Plishka, conducted by James Levine. Production by Tito Capobianco. From December 29, 1984. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 29 min.
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Friday, April 23: Philip Glass’s Satyagraha
Starring Rachelle Durkin, Richard Croft, Kim Josephson, and Alfred Walker, conducted by Dante Anzolini. Production by Phelim McDermott. From November 19, 2011. Sung in Sanskrit. Run Time: 3 hrs 04 min.
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Saturday, April 24: Beethoven’s Fidelio
Starring Karita Mattila, Ben Heppner, Falk Struckmann, and René Pape, conducted by James Levine. Production by Jürgen Flimm. From October 28, 2000. Sung in German. Run Time: 2 hrs 03 min.
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Sunday, April 25: Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites
Starring Isabel Leonard, Adrianne Pieczonka, and Karita Mattila, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Production by John Dexter. From May 11, 2019. Sung in French. Run Time: 2 hrs 53 min.
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Reference：(1) Nightly Opera Streams, April 19 -April 25, 2021, (2) Nightly Opera Streams, April 19 – April 25, 2021: Playbills, (3) Weekly Guide: April 19 – April 25, 2021
Week 59 (April 26, 2021 – May 2, 2021): City of Light
Monday, April 26: Puccini’s La Bohème
Starring Sonya Yoncheva, Susanna Phillips, Michael Fabiano, Lucas Meachem, and Matthew Rose, conducted by Marco Armiliato. Production by Franco Zeffirelli. From February 24, 2018. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 20 min.
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Tuesday, April 27: Lehár’s The Merry Widow
Starring Renée Fleming, Kelli O’Hara, Nathan Gunn, Alek Shrader, and Sir Thomas Allen, conducted by Sir Andrew Davis. Production by Susan Stroman. From January 17, 2015. Sung in English. Run Time: 2 hrs 28 min.
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Wednesday, April 28: Giordano’s Andrea Chénier
Starring Maria Guleghina, Wendy White, Stephanie Blythe, Luciano Pavarotti, and Juan Pons, conducted by James Levine. Production by Nicolas Joël. From October 15, 1996. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 02 min.
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Thursday, April 29: Massenet’s Manon
Starring Lisette Oropesa, Michael Fabiano, Artur Ruciński, and Kwangchul Youn, conducted by Maurizio Benini. Production by Laurent Pelly. From October 26, 2019. Sung in French. Run Time: 2 hrs 56 min.
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Friday, April 30: Verdi’s La Traviata
Starring Ileana Cotrubas, Plácido Domingo, and Cornell MacNeil, conducted by James Levine. Production by Colin Graham. From March 28, 1981. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 09 min.
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Saturday, May 1: Cilea’s Adriana Lecouvreur
Starring Anna Netrebko, Anita Rachvelishvili, Piotr Beczała, and Ambrogio Maestri, conducted by Gianandrea Noseda. Production by Sir David McVicar. From January 12, 2019. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 22 min.
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Sunday May 2: Puccini’s La Rondine
Starring Angela Gheorghiu, Lisette Oropesa, Roberto Alagna, Marius Brenciu, and Samuel Ramey, conducted by Marco Armiliato. Production by Nicolas Joël. From January 10, 2009. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 1 hrs 54 min.
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Week 60 (May 3, 2021 – May 9, 2021): Happy Mother’s Day
Monday, May 3: Strauss’s Elektra
Starring Nina Stemme, Adrianne Pieczonka, Waltraud Meier, and Eric Owens, conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen. Production by Patrice Chéreau. From April 30, 2016. Sung in German. Run Time: 1 hrs 52 min.
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Tuesday, May 4: Handel’s Rodelinda
Starring Renée Fleming, Stephanie Blythe, Andreas Scholl, Joseph Kaiser, and Shenyang, conducted by Harry Bicket. Production by Stephen Wadsworth. From December 3, 2011. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 3 hrs 17 min.
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Wednesday, May 5: Thomas’s Hamlet
Starring Marlis Petersen, Jennifer Larmore, Simon Keenlyside, and James Morris, conducted by Louis Langrée. Production by Patrice Caurier & Moshe Leiser. From March 27, 2010. Sung in French. Run Time: 2 hrs 49 min.
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Thursday, May 6: Bellini’s Norma
Starring Sondra Radvanovsky, Joyce DiDonato, Joseph Calleja, and Matthew Rose, conducted by Carlo Rizzi. Production by Sir David McVicar. From October 7, 2017. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 3 hrs 04 min.
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Friday, May 7: Berg’s Wozzeck
Starring Elza van den Heever, Tamara Mumford, Christopher Ventris, Gerhard Siegel, Andrew Staples, Peter Mattei, and Christian Van Horn, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Production by William Kentridge. From January 11, 2020. Sung in German. Run Time: 1 hrs 51 min.
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Saturday, May 8: Puccini’s Madama Butterfly
Starring Patricia Racette, Maria Zifchak, Marcello Giordani, and Dwayne Croft, conducted by Patrick Summers. Production by Anthony Minghella. From March 7, 2009. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 26 min.
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Sunday, May 9: Handel’s Agrippina
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. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 3 hrs 25 min.
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Week 61 (May 10, 2021 – May 16, 2021): National Council Auditions Alumni Week
Monday, May 10: Puccini’s La Bohème
Starring Teresa Stratas, Renata Scotto, José Carreras, Richard Stilwell, and James Morris, conducted by James Levine. Production by Franco Zeffirelli. From January 16, 1982. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 04 min.
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Tuesday, May 11: Mozart’s Don Giovanni
Starring Carol Vaness, Karita Mattila, Dawn Upshaw, Jerry Hadley, Samuel Ramey, Ferrucio Furlanetto, and Kurt Moll, conducted by James Levine. Production by Franco Zeffirelli. From April 5, 1990. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 58 min.
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Wednesday, May 12: Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde
Starring Jane Eaglen, Katarina Dalayman, Ben Heppner, Hans-Joachim Ketelsen, and René Pape, conducted by James Levine. Production by Dieter Dorn. From December 18, 1999. Sung in German. Run Time: 3 hrs 58 min.
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Thursday, May 13: Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier
Starring Renée Fleming, Christine Schäfer, Susan Graham, Eric Cutler, Thomas Allen, and Kristinn Sigmundsson, conducted by Edo de Waart. Production by Nathaniel Merrill. From January 9, 2010. Sung in German. Run Time: 3 hrs 18 min.
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Friday, May 14: The Audition
This feature-length documentary takes you behind the scenes of the Met’s National Council Auditions, in which, each year, thousands of hopefuls compete for a cash prize, the chance to sing on the Met stage—and the opportunity to launch a major operatic career. Directed by Susan Froemke. Run Time: 1 hrs 47 min.
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Saturday, May 15: Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia
Starring Isabel Leonard, Lawrence Brownlee, Christopher Maltman, Maurizo Muraro, and Paata Burchuladze, conducted by Michele Mariotti. Production by Bartlett Sher. From November 22, 2014. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 48 min.
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Sunday, May 16: Donizetti’s Roberto Devereux
Starring Sondra Radvanovsky, Elīna Garanča, Matthew Polenzani, and Mariusz Kwiecień, conducted by Maurizio Benini. Production by Sir David McVicar. From April 16, 2016. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 40 min.
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Week 62 (May 17, 2021 – May 23, 2021): Unhinged Mad Scenes
Monday, May 17: Bellini’s I Puritani
Starring Anna Netrebko, Eric Cutler, Franco Vassallo, and John Relyea, conducted by Patrick Summers. Production by Sandro Sequi. From January 6, 2007. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 35 min.
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Tuesday, May 18: Mozart’s Idomeneo
Starring Elza van den Heever, Nadine Sierra, Alice Coote, Matthew Polenzani, and Alan Opie, conducted by James Levine. Production by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle. From March 25, 2017. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 3 hrs 22 min.
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Wednesday, May 19: Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov
Starring Ekaterina Semenchuk, Aleksandrs Antonenko, Oleg Balashov, Evgeny Nikitin, René Pape, Mikhail Petrenko, and Vladimir Ognovenko, conducted by Valery Gergiev. Production by Stephen Wadsworth. From October 23, 2010. Sung in Russian. Run Time: 3 hrs 23 min.
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Thursday, May 20: Bellini’s La Sonnambula
Starring Natalie Dessay, Juan Diego Flórez, and Michele Pertusi, conducted by Evelino Pidò. Production by Mary Zimmerman. From March 21, 2009. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 22 min.
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Friday, May 21: Verdi’s Nabucco
Starring Liudmyla Monastyrska, Jamie Barton, Russell Thomas, Plácido Domingo, and Dmitry Belosselskiy, conducted by James Levine. Production by Elijah Moshinsky. From January 7, 2017. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 30 min.
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Saturday, May 22: Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor
Starring Joan Sutherland, Alfredo Kraus, Pablo Elvira, and Paul Plishka, conducted by Richard Bonynge. Production by Margherita Wallmann. From November 13, 1982. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 16 min.
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Sunday, May 23: Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades
Starring Galina Gorchakova, Elisabeth Söderström, Plácido Domingo, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, and Nikolai Putilin, conducted by Valery Gergiev. Production by Elijah Moshinsky. From April 15, 1999. Sung in Russian Run Time: 2 hrs 51 min.
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Reference：(1) Nightly Opera Streams, May 17 – May 23, 2021, (2) Nightly Opera Streams, May 17 – May 23, 2021: Playbills, (3) Weekly Guide: May 17 – May 23, 2021
Week 63 (May 24, 2021 – May 30, 2021): Rare Gems
Monday, May 24: Massenet’s Thaïs
Starring Renée Fleming, Michael Schade, and Thomas Hampson, conducted by Jesús López-Cobos. Production by John Cox. From December 20, 2008. Sung in French. Run Time: 2 hrs 18 min.
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Tuesday, May 25: Borodin’s Prince Igor
Starring Oksana Dyka, Anita Rachvelishvili, Sergey Semishkur, Ildar Abdrazakov, Mikhail Petrenko, and Štefan Kocán, conducted by Gianandrea Noseda. Production by Dmitri Tcherniakov. From March 1, 2014. Sung in Russian. Run Time: 3 hrs 22 min.
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Wednesday, May 26: Rossini’s La Donna del Lago
Starring Joyce DiDonato, Daniela Barcellona, Juan Diego Flórez, John Osborn, and Oren Gradus, conducted by Michele Mariotti. Production by Paul Curran. From March 14, 2015. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 52 min.
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Thursday, May 27: Shostakovich’s The Nose
Starring Andrey Popov, Alexander Lewis, and Paulo Szot, conducted by Pavel Smelkov. Production by William Kentridge. From October 26, 2013. Sung in Russian. Run Time: 2 hrs 01 min.
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Friday, May 28: Giordano’s Fedora
Starring Mirella Freni, Ainhoa Arteta, Plácido Domingo, Dwayne Croft, and Jean-Yves Thibaudet, conducted by Roberto Abbado. Production by Beppe De Tomasi. From April 26, 1997. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 1 hrs 51 min.
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Saturday, May 29: Strauss’s Capriccio
Starring Renée Fleming, Sarah Connolly, Joseph Kaiser, Russell Braun, Morten Frank Larsen, and Peter Rose, conducted by Sir Andrew Davis. Production by John Cox. From April 23, 2011. Sung in German. Run Time: 2 hrs 28 min.
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Sunday, May 30: Rossini’s Le Comte Ory
Starring Diana Damrau, Joyce DiDonato, Susanne Resmark, Juan Diego Flórez, Stéphane Degout, and Michele Pertusi, conducted by Maurizio Benini. Production by Bartlett Sher. From April 9, 2011. Sung in French. Run Time: 2 hrs 23 min.
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Reference：(1) Nightly Opera Streams, May 24 – May 30, 2021, (2) Nightly Opera Streams, May 24 – May 30, 2021: Playbills, (3) Weekly Guide: May 24 – May 30, 2021
Week 64 (May 31, 2021 – June 6, 2021): Aria Code: The Operas Behind the Podcast
Monday, May 31: Puccini’s Turandot
Starring Christine Goerke, Eleonora Buratto, Yusif Eyvazov, and James Morris, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Production by Franco Zeffirelli. From October 12, 2019. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 23 min.
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Tuesday, June 1: Saint-Saëns’s Samson et Dalila
Starring Elīna Garanča, Roberto Alagna, Laurent Naouri, Elchin Azizov, and Dmitry Belosselskiy, conducted by Sir Mark Elder. Production by Darko Tresnjak. From October 20, 2018. Sung in French. Run Time: 2 hrs 22 min.
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Wednesday, June 2: Bizet’s Carmen
Starring Aleksandra Kurzak, Clémentine Margaine, Roberto Alagna, and Alexander Vinogradov, conducted by Louis Langrée. Production by Sir Richard Eyre. From February 2, 2019. Sung in French. Run Time: 2 hrs 52 min.
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Thursday, June 3: Donizetti’s La Fille du Régiment
Starring Pretty Yende, Stephanie Blythe, Kathleen Turner, Javier Camarena, and Maurizio Muraro, conducted by Enrique Mazzola. Production by Laurent Pelly. From March 2, 2019. Sung in French. Run Time: 2 hrs 22 min.
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Friday, June 4: The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess
Starring Angel Blue, Golda Schultz, Latonia Moore, Denyce Graves, Frederick Ballentine, Eric Owens, Alfred Walker, and Donovan Singletary, conducted by David Robertson. Production by James Robinson. From February 1, 2020. Sung in English. Run Time: 3 hrs 10 min.
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Saturday, June 5: Verdi’s Macbeth
Starring Anna Netrebko, Joseph Calleja, Željko Lučić, and René Pape, conducted by Fabio Luisi.Production by Adrian Noble. From October 11, 2014. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 49 min.
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Sunday, June 6: Philip Glass’s 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. Sung in Various. Run Time: 2 hrs 52 min.
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Reference：(1) Nightly Opera Streams, May 31 – June 6, 2021, (2) Nightly Opera Streams, May 31 – June 6, 2021: Playbills, (3) Weekly Guide: May 31 – June 6, 2021
Week 65 (June 7, 2021 – June 13, 2021): Changing the Scene: Updated Settings for Classic Operas
Monday, June 7: Verdi’s Rigoletto
Starring Diana Damrau, Oksana Volkova, Piotr Beczała, Željko Lučić, and Štefan Kocán, conducted by Michele Mariotti. Production by Michael Mayer. From February 16, 2013. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 31 min.
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Tuesday, June 8: Gounod’s Faust
Starring Marina Poplavskaya, Jonas Kaufmann, Russell Braun, and René Pape, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Production by Des McAnuff. From December 10, 2011. Sung in French. Run Time: 3 hrs 10 min.
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Wednesday, June 9: Bellini’s La Sonnambula
Starring Natalie Dessay, Juan Diego Flórez, and Michele Pertusi, conducted by Evelino Pidò. Production by Mary Zimmerman. From March 21, 2009. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 22 min.
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Thursday, June 10: Handel’s Agrippina
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. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 3 hrs 25 min.
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Friday, June 11: Thomas Adès’s The Tempest
Starring Audrey Luna, Isabel Leonard, Iestyn Davies, Alek Shrader, Alan Oke, William Burden, Toby Spence, and Simon Keenlyside, conducted by Thomas Adès. Production by Robert Lepage. From November 10, 2012. Sung in English. Run Time: 2 hrs 22 min.
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Saturday, June 12: Verdi’s Falstaff
Starring Lisette Oropesa, Angela Meade, Stephanie Blythe, Jennifer Johnson Cano, Paolo Fanale, Ambrogio Maestri, and Franco Vassallo, conducted by James Levine. Production by Robert Carsen. From December 14, 2013. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 21 min.
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Sunday, June 13: Mozart’s Così fan tutte
Starring Amanda Majeski, Serena Malfi, Kelli O’Hara, Ben Bliss, Adam Plachetka, and Christopher Maltman, conducted by David Robertson. Production by Phelim McDermott. From March 31, 2018. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 3 hrs 15 min.
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Reference：(1) Nightly Opera Streams, June 7 – June 13, 2021, (2) Nightly Opera Streams, June 7 – June 13, 2021: Playbills, (3) Weekly Guide: June 7 – June 13, 2021
Week 66 (June 14, 2021 – June 20, 2021): Happy Father’s Day
Monday, June 14: Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra
Starring Kiri Te Kanawa, Plácido Domingo, Vladimir Chernov, and Robert Lloyd, conducted by James Levine. Production by Giancarlo Del Monaco. From January 26, 1995. Sung in Italian. Run time: 2 hrs 20 min.
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Tuesday, June 15: Wagner’s Die Walküre
Starring Christine Goerke, Eva-Maria Westbroek, Jamie Barton, Stuart Skelton, Greer Grimsley, and Günther Groissböck, conducted by Philippe Jordan. Production by Robert Lepage. From March 30, 2019. Sung in German. Run time: 3 hrs 53 min.
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Wednesday, June 16: Verdi’s La Traviata
Starring Natalie Dessay, Matthew Polenzani, and Dmitri Hvorostovsky, conducted by Fabio Luisi. Production by Willy Decker. From April 14, 2012. Sung in Italian. Run time: 2 hrs 16 min.
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Thursday, June 17: Mozart’s Idomeneo
Starring Elza van den Heever, Nadine Sierra, Alice Coote, Matthew Polenzani, and Alan Opie, conducted by James Levine. Production by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle. From March 25, 2017. Sung in Italian. Run time: 3 hrs 22 min.
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Friday, June 18: Verdi’s Rigoletto
Starring Christiane Eda-Pierre, Isola Jones, Luciano Pavarotti, Louis Quilico, and Ara Berberian, conducted by James Levine. Production by John Dexter. From December 15, 1981. Sung in Italian. Run time: 2 hrs 05 min.
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Saturday, June 19: Verdi’s Don Carlo
Starring Marina Poplavskaya, Anna Smirnova, Roberto Alagna, Simon Keenlyside, Ferruccio Furlanetto, and Eric Halfvarson, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Production by Nicholas Hytner. From December 11, 2010. Sung in Italian. Run time: 3 hrs 35 min.
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Sunday, June 20: Verdi’s Luisa Miller
Starring Renata Scotto, Plácido Domingo, Sherrill Milnes, Bonaldo Giaiotti, and James Morris, conducted by James Levine. Production by Nathaniel Merrill. From January 20, 1979. Sung in Italian. Run time: 2 hrs 27 min.
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Reference：(1) Nightly Opera Streams, June 14 – June 20, 2021, (2) Nightly Opera Streams, June 14 – June 20, 2021: Playbills, (3) Weekly Guide: June 14 – June 20, 2021
Week 67 (June 21, 2021 – June 27, 2021): Pride Week
Monday, June 21: Thomas Adès’s The Exterminating Angel
Starring Audrey Luna, Amanda Echalaz, Sally Matthews, Sophie Bevan, Alice Coote, Christine Rice, Iestyn Davies, Joseph Kaiser, Frédéric Antoun, David Portillo, David Adam Moore, Rod Gilfry, Kevin Burdette, Christian Van Horn, and Sir John Tomlinson, conducted by Thomas Adès. Production by Tom Cairns. From November 18, 2017. Sung in English. Run time: 2 hrs 22 min.
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Tuesday, June 22: Dvořák’s Rusalka
Starring Kristine Opolais, Katarina Dalayman, Jamie Barton, Brandon Jovanovich, and Eric Owens, conducted by Sir Mark Elder. Production by Mary Zimmerman. From February 25, 2017. Sung in Czech. Run time: 2 hrs 56 min.
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Wednesday, June 23: Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda
Starring Elza van den Heever, Joyce DiDonato, Matthew Polenzani, Joshua Hopkins, and Matthew Rose, conducted by Maurizio Benini. Production by Sir David McVicar. From January 19, 2013. Sung in Italian. Run time: 2 hrs 41 min.
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Thursday, June 24: Puccini’s Tosca
Starring Patricia Racette, Roberto Alagna, George Gagnidze, and John Del Carlo, conducted by Riccardo Frizza. Production by Luc Bondy. From November 9, 2013. Sung in Italian. Run time: 2 hrs 19 min.
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Friday, June 25: Puccini’s Turandot
Starring Christine Goerke, Eleonora Buratto, Yusif Eyvazov, and James Morris, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Production by Franco Zeffirelli. From October 12, 2019. Sung in Italian. Run time: 2 hrs 23 min.
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Saturday, June 26: Britten’s Billy Budd
Starring Philip Langridge, Dwayne Croft, and James Morris, conducted by Steuart Bedford. Production by John Dexter. From March 11, 1997. Sung in English. Run time:2 hrs 38 min.
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Sunday, June 27: Verdi’s La Traviata
Starring Sonya Yoncheva, Michael Fabiano, and Thomas Hampson, conducted by Nicola Luisotti. Production by Willy Decker. From March 11, 2017. Sung in Italian. Run time: 2 hrs 21 min.
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Reference：(1) Nightly Opera Streams, June 21 – June 27, 2021, (2) Nightly Opera Streams, June 21 – June 27, 2021: Playbills, (3) Weekly Guide: June 21 – June 27, 2021
Week 68 (June 28, 2021 – July 4, 2021): Celebrating American Composers
Monday, June 28: Nico Muhly’s Marnie
Starring Isabel Leonard, Iestyn Davies, Christopher Maltman, Janis Kelly, and Denyce Graves, conducted by Roberto Spano. Production by Michael Mayer. From November 10, 2018. Sung in Italian. Run time: 2 hrs 22 min.
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Tuesday, June 29: John Adams’s Doctor Atomic
Starring Sasha Cooke, Thomas Glenn, Gerald Finley, and Richard Paul Fink, conducted by Alan Gilbert. Production by Penny Woolcock. From November 8, 2008. Sung in English. Run time: 2 hrs 46 min.
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Wednesday, June 30: John Corigliano’s The Ghosts of Versailles
Starring Teresa Stratas, Håkan Hagegård, Gino Quilico, Graham Clark, Marilyn Horne, and Renée Fleming, conducted by James Levine. Production by Sir Colin Graham. From January 10, 1992. Sung in . Run time: 3 hrs 00 min.
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Thursday, July 1: Philip Glass’s Satyagraha
Starring Rachelle Durkin, Richard Croft, Kim Josephson, and Alfred Walker, conducted by Dante Anzolini. Production by Phelim McDermott. From November 19, 2011. Sung in Sanskrit. Run time: 3 hrs 04 min.
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Friday, July 2: John Adams’s Nixon in China
Starring Kathleen Kim, Janis Kelly, Robert Brubaker, Russell Braun, James Maddalena, and Richard Paul Fink, conducted by John Adams. Production by Peter Sellars. From February 12, 2011. Sung in English. Run time: 2 hrs 56 min.
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Saturday, July 3: Weill’s Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
Starring Teresa Stratas, Astrid Varnay, Richard Cassilly, and Cornell MacNeil, conducted by James Levine. From November 27, 1979. Sung in . Run time: 2 hrs 27 min.
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Sunday, July 4: Philip Glass’s 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. Sung in various. Run time: 2 hrs 52 min.
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Reference：(1) Nightly Opera Streams, June 27 – July 4, 2021, (2) Nightly Opera Streams, June 27 – July 4, 2021: Playbills, (3) Weekly Guide: June 27 – July 4, 2021
Week 69 (July 5, 2021 – July 11, 2021): Strauss Week
Monday, July 5: Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier
Starring Kiri Te Kanawa, Tatiana Troyanos, Judith Blegen, Luciano Pavarotti, Derek Hammond-Stroud, and Kurt Moll, conducted by James Levine. Production by Nathaniel Merrill. From October 7, 1982. Sung in German. Run time: 3 hrs 20 min.
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Tuesday, July 6: Strauss’s Elektra
Starring Nina Stemme, Adrianne Pieczonka, Waltraud Meier, and Eric Owens, conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen. Production by Patrice Chéreau. From April 30, 2016. Sung in German. Run time: 1 hrs 52 min.
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Wednesday, July 7: Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos
Starring Deborah Voigt, Natalie Dessay, Susanne Mentzer, and Richard Margison, conducted by James Levine. Production by Elijah Moshinsky. From April 3, 2003. Sung in German. Run time: 2 hrs 14 min.
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Thursday, July 8: Strauss’s Capriccio
Starring Renée Fleming, Sarah Connolly, Joseph Kaiser, Russell Braun, Morten Frank Larsen, and Peter Rose, conducted by Sir Andrew Davis. Production by John Cox. From April 23, 2011. Sung in . Run time: 2 hrs 28 min.
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Friday, July 9: Strauss’s Salome
Starring Karita Mattila, Ildikó Komlósi, Kim Begley, Joseph Kaiser, and Juha Uusitalo, conducted by Patrick Summers. Production by Jürgen Flimm. From October 11, 2008. Sung in German. Run time: 1 hrs 46 min.
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Saturday, July 10: Strauss’s Arabella
Starring Kiri Te Kanawa, Marie McLaughlin, Helga Dernesch, Natalie Dessay, David Kuebler, Wolfgang Brendel, and Donald McIntyre, conducted by Christian Thielemann. Production by Otto Schenk. From November 3, 1994. Sung in German. Run time: 2 hrs 49 min.
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Sunday, July 11: Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier
Starring Renée Fleming, Elīna Garanča, Erin Morley, Matthew Polenzani, Marcus Brück, and Günther Groissböck, conducted by Sebastian Weigle. Production by Robert Carsen. From May 13, 2017. Sung in German. Run time: 3 hrs 48 min.
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Reference：(1) Nightly Opera Streams, July 5 – July 11, 2021, (2) Nightly Opera Streams, July 5 – July 11, 2021: Playbills, (3) Weekly Guide: June 5 – July 11, 2021
Week 70 (July 12, 2021 – July 18, 2021): Puccini Week
Monday, July 12: Puccini’s Manon Lescaut: Starring Karita Mattila, Marcello Giordani, and Dwayne Croft, conducted by James Levine. From February 16, 2008. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 26 min.
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Tuesday, July 13: Puccini’s La Bohème: Starring Renata Scotto, Maralin Niska, Luciano Pavarotti, Ingvar Wixell, and Paul Plishka, conducted by James Levine. Production by Fabrizio Melano. From March 15, 1977. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 02 min.
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Wednesday, July 14: Puccini’s Tosca
Starring Shirley Verrett, Luciano Pavarotti, and Cornell MacNeil, conducted by James Conlon. From December 19, 1978. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 04 min.
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Thursday, July 15: Puccini’s Madama Butterfly
Starring Hui He, Elizabeth DeShong, Bruce Sledge, and Paulo Szot, conducted by Pier Giorgio Morandi. Production by Anthony Minghella. From November 9, 2019. Sung in . Run Time: 2 hrs 22 min.
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Friday, July 16: Puccini’s La Fanciulla del West
Starring Barbara Daniels, Plácido Domingo, and Sherrill Milnes, conducted by Leonard Slatkin. Production by Giancarlo Del Monaco. From April 8, 1992. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 18 min.
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Saturday, July 17: Puccini’s La Rondine
Starring Angela Gheorghiu, Lisette Oropesa, Roberto Alagna, Marius Brenciu, and Samuel Ramey, conducted by Marco Armiliato. Production by Nicolas Joël. From January 10, 2009. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 1 hrs 54 min.
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Sunday, July 18: Puccini’s Turandot
Starring Nina Stemme, Anita Hartig, Marco Berti, and Alexander Tsymbalyuk, conducted by Paolo Carignani. Production by Franco Zeffirelli. From January 30, 2016. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 21 min.
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Reference：(1) Nightly Opera Streams, July 12 – July 18, 2021, (2) Nightly Opera Streams, July 12 – July 18, 2021: Playbills, (3) Weekly Guide: June 12 – July 18, 2021
Week 71 (July 19, 2021 – July 25, 2021) Final Week: Viewers’ Choice
Monday, July 19: Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro
Starring Renée Fleming, Cecilia Bartoli, Susanne Mentzer, Dwayne Croft, and Bryn Terfel, conducted by James Levine. Production by Jonathan Miller. From November 11, 1998. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 3 hrs 3 min.
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Tuesday, July 20: Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana and Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci
Starring Tatiana Troyanos, Jean Kraft, Plácido Domingo, and Vern Shinall; Teresa Stratas, Plácido Domingo, Sherrill Milnes, and Allan Monk, conducted by James Levine. Production by Franco Zeffirelli. From April 5, 1978. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 31 min.
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Wednesday, July 21: Bizet’s Les Pêcheurs de Perles
Starring Diana Damrau, Matthew Polenzani, Mariusz Kwiecień, and Nicolas Testé, conducted by Gianandrea Noseda. Production by Penny Woolcock. From January 16, 2016. Sung in French. Run Time: 2 hrs 15 min.
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Thursday, July 22: Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann
Starring Erin Morley, Hibla Gerzmava, Kate Lindsey, Christine Rice, Vittorio Grigolo, and Thomas Hampson, conducted by Yves Abel. Production by Bartlett Sher. From January 31, 2015. Sung in French. Run Time: 2 hrs 51 min.
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Friday, July 23: Donizetti’s La Fille du Régiment
Starring Natalie Dessay, Felicity Palmer, Juan Diego Flórez,
and Alessandro Corbelli, conducted by Marco Armiliato. Production by Laurent Pelly. From April 26, 2008. Sung in French. Run Time: 2 hrs 19 min.
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Saturday, July 24: Verdi’s Il Trovatore
Starring Anna Netrebko, Dolora Zajick, Yonghoon Lee, and Dmitri Hvorostovsky, conducted by Marco Armiliato. Production by David McVicar. From October 3, 2015. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 39 min.
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Sunday, July 25: Verdi’s Un Ballo in Maschera
Starring Sondra Radvanovsky, Kathleen Kim, Stephanie Blythe, Marcelo Álvarez, and Dmitri Hvorostovsky, conducted by Fabio Luisi. Production by David Alden. From December 8, 2012. Sung in Italian. Run Time: 2 hrs 41 min.
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Reference：(1) Nightly Opera Streams, July 19 – July 25, 2021, (2) Nightly Opera Streams, July 19 – July 25, 2021: Playbills, (3) Weekly Guide: June 19 – July 25, 2021
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