THE METROPOLITAN OPERA
Announces Two-Week Schedule for
Nightly MET OPERA Streams
THE M.jpg
By Iride Aparicio

Photos Courtesy: Metropolitan Opera

NEW YORK, NEW YORK -- The MET announces to the press its theme lineups for two weeks, of its Nightly Met Opera Streams, the company's ongoing series of encore live in HD presentations and classic telecasts streamed on its website during its corona virus closure.  The schedule includes a Myths and Legends Week with Luciano Pavarotti, Hildegard Behrens, Frederica van Stade and Mozart's Don Giovanni with René Fleming, Bryn Terfel and Ferruccio Furlanetto. Also new to the streaming schedule is Donizetti's L'Elisir d'Amore, with Anna Netrebko and Matthew Polenzany.

Week 54 MYTHS and LEGENDS  

DOMINGO.jpg
SUSAN GRAHAM and Tenor PLACIDO DOMINGO

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

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

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24
Gluk's Iphigénie en Tauride
Starring: Susan Graham, Plàcido Domingo, Paul Groves and Gordon Hawkins
Conducted by: Patrick Summers
Production by Stephen Wadsworth. From February 26, 20ll

THURSDAY, MARCH 25
Strauss's Elektra
Starring: Nina Stemme, Adrianne Pieczonka, Waltraud Meier and Eric Owens,
Conducted by: Essa-Pekka Salonen
Production by Patrice Chéreau. From April 30, 2016

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

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 Zefferelli. From Octogber 14, 2000.

SUNDAY, MARCH 28
Wagner's Der Fliegende Hollander
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

The online broadcasting of Nightly Met Opera Streams will begin on Monday March 22 at 7:30 PM (EST) Eastern Standard Time, and remain available to be watched via metopera.org for 23 hours. All the performances are also accessible on all Met Opera on Demand apps.

Pavorotti.jpg
Tenor Luciano Pavarotti

Cultural World Bilingual will continue publishing the names, and times of the productions that will be streamed during the MET's Week 55 LOVE TRIANGLES, and review some of the productions on our website. So keep reading us.