The Metropolitan Opera has closed during the coronavirus outbreak, but it’s offering nightly streams of encore presentations from its Live in HD series. The streams began on Monday, March 16. Each will begin at 7:30 p.m. and will remain available on metopera.org for 20 hours. If you happen to use a Met Opera on Demand app, it will be available there too.
For those of you who aren’t multi-lingual, when you watch the live stream, you can click on the small box at the bottom right that is labeled “CC”. This will provide captions in English for you.
Here’s the latest schedule for upcoming streams:
Monday, June 1
Bellini’s I Puritani
Starring Anna Netrebko, Eric Cutler, Franco Vassallo, and John Relyea, conducted by Patrick Summers.
From January 6, 2007.
Tuesday, June 2
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.
Wednesday, June 3
Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice
Starring Danielle de Niese, Heidi Grant Murphy, and Stephanie Blythe, conducted by James Levine.
From January 24, 2009.
Thursday, June 4
Puccini’s Tosca
Starring Shirley Verrett, Luciano Pavarotti, and Cornell MacNeil, conducted by James Conlon.
From December 19, 1978.
Friday, June 5
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.
Saturday, June 6
Verdi’s Otello
Starring Sonya Yoncheva, Aleksandrs Antonenko, and Željko Lučić, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin.
From October 17, 2015.
Sunday, June 7
Massenet’s Thaïs
Starring Renée Fleming, Michael Schade, and Thomas Hampson, conducted by Jesús López-Cobos.
From December 20, 2008.
