Matthew Polenzani News

Today (January 20) in live streaming: an Inauguration Day special with the Chaos Twins and more!

The Met has announced themed lineups for two weeks of its Nightly Met Opera Streams, a free series of encore Live in HD presentations and classic telecasts streamed on the company's website during the coronavirus closure. The schedule includes a week of Leading Ladies: Opera’s Greatest Heroines and an Antiheroes Week.

The 50th annual George London Foundation Competition for young American and Canadian opera singers, originally scheduled for February, has been rescheduled to take place in April 2021 in New York City in order to allow for greater ease of travel for the competitors.

Looks can be deceiving, as the New Year’s Eve edition of the Met’s “Live in Concert” series proved in abundance. But could even the talent of four wonderful singers--sopranos, Angel Blue and Pretty Yende and a matching pair of tenors, Javier Camarena and Matthew Polenzani-- breathe new life in a program filled with warhorses, from “Che gelida manina” from BOHEME to that Neopolitan classic, “O sole mio”? In a word: Yes.

Soprano Sondra Radvanovsky and tenor Piotr Beczała will perform a live concert on Saturday, January 23, at 7:00pm CET/1:00pm ET, from the historic Stadthalle in Wuppertal, Germany, as part of the Met Stars Live in Concert series.

Broadway might be dark, but that doesn't mean that theatre isn't happening everywhere! Below, check out where you can get your daily fix of Broadway this weekend, January 9-10, 2020.

Today (January 6) in live streaming: Donna McKechnie visits Stars in the House, Jane Krakowski guests on Backstage Live, and so much more!

Today (December 31) in live streaming: The Met's New Year's Eve Gala, Game Night on Stars in the House, and so much more!

Today's top stories: check out our guide to Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical, Seth Rudetsky chats with Richard Ridge on Backstage Live, read our interview with Brian Stokes Mitchell, and more!

The Met has announced themed lineups for two weeks of its Nightly Met Opera Streams, a free series of encore Live in HD presentations and classic telecasts streamed on the company's website during the coronavirus closure. The schedule includes a week of Epic Rivalries and an all-Renée Fleming week.

What are YOU doing New Year's Eve? As the world prepares to celebrate New Year's Eve a bit differently this year, there are still plenty or ways to keep busy while you await the stroke of midnight.

Today (December 21) in live streaming: Adam Pascal sings with Seth Rudetsky, Intelligence on Stars in the House, and so much more!

 The Saint Pio Foundation has announced its virtual gala for “Christmas Challenge Initiative 2020” on Friday, December 11, 2020, at 6:00 P.M. The evening’s hosts are Joe Piscopo and Mary Calvi. Special performing guests will include Deana Martin (singer, actress, and daughter of the legendary Dean Martin), and more.

The Met has announced themed lineups for four weeks of its Nightly Met Opera Streams, a free series of encore Live in HD presentations and classic telecasts streamed on the company's website during the coronavirus closure. The schedule includes a week of In Plain English, an Epic Proportions week, followed by a week of Holiday Fare, and more.

Welsh bass-baritone Bryn Terfel will perform a holiday program with special musical guests, on Saturday, December 12, at 7:00pm CET/1:00pm ET, from the historic Brecon Cathedral in his native Wales, as part of the Met Stars Live in Concert pay-per-view series.

The Metropolitan Opera announced plans today to live-stream a pay-per-view New Year's Eve Gala, featuring performances by Met stars Angel Blue, Javier Camarena, Matthew Polenzani, and Pretty Yende, from the Parktheater, a stunning example of neo-Baroque architecture situated in Augsburg, Germany.

Broadway might be dark, but that doesn't mean that theatre isn't happening everywhere! Below, check out where you can get your daily fix of Broadway this weekend, October 24-25, 2020.

The Met has announced themed lineups for five weeks of its Nightly Met Opera Streams, a free series of encore Live in HD presentations and classic telecasts streamed on the company's website during the coronavirus closure.

This weekend (October 17-18) in live streaming: Divas for Democracy, American Utopia premieres on HBO, and so much more!

Today (October 16) in live streaming: Sticks & Stones premieres, What the Constitution Means to Me arrives on Prime video, and so much more!