The Met Cancels 2020-21 Opera Season, Announces Premieres for 2021-22
by Chloe Rabinowitz
- Sep 23, 2020
The Metropolitan Opera announced today that the ongoing health crisis has resulted in the cancellation of the entire 2020-21 season, but the company also announced ambitious artistic plans for its 2021-22 season, which will open with the Met premiere of Terence Blanchard's Fire Shut Up in My Bones.
The Met Announces Week 28 Schedule for Nightly Met Opera Streams
by Chloe Rabinowitz
- Sep 17, 2020
The Met has announced a specially-curated a?oeAll Puccinia?? week for its Nightly Met Opera Streams, a free series of encore Live in HD presentations and classic telecasts streamed on the company website during the coronavirus closure.
Joyce DiDonato to Perform as Part of MET STARS LIVE IN CONCERT Series
by Chloe Rabinowitz
- Sep 2, 2020
Celebrated American mezzo-soprano and multiple Grammy Award winner Joyce DiDonato will perform a live concert, titled 'I Dream a World,' on Saturday, September 12, at 7:30pm CET/1:30pm ET, in Bochum, Germany, as part of the Met Stars Live in Concert series.
Met Announces Three-Week Schedule For Nightly Met Opera Streams
by Stephi Wild
- Aug 20, 2020
The Met has announced a specially-curated, three-week schedule for its Nightly Met Opera Streams, a free series of encore Live in HD presentations and classic telecasts streamed on the company website during the coronavirus closure. The schedule includes an All-Verdi week, a 20th-Century Classics week, and an All-French week.
The Met Announces Week 15 Schedule Of Nightly Met Opera Streams
by A.A. Cristi
- Jun 17, 2020
The Met has announced the Week 15 schedule for its Nightly Met Opera Streams, a free series of encore Live in HD presentations streamed on the company website during the coronavirus closure. Highlights include the Met's classic 1991 telecast of Donizetti's L'Elisir d'Amore, with Kathleen Battle and Luciano Pavarotti, John Adams's Doctor Atomic starring Gerald Finley, and Massenet's Manon, with Lisette Oropesa in the title role.
The Met Opera Presents AT-HOME GALA: Encore Screening, 12-13 Jun 2020
by Gilbert Kim Sancha
- Jun 11, 2020
As part of The Metropolitan Opera's (Met Opera) urgent “The Voice Must Be Heard” fundraising campaign to support and protect the future of opera amid the COVID-19, more than 40 leading opera artists and members of the company's brilliant orchestra and chorus performed from their respective homes all around the world. The unprecedented virtual gathering of Met Opera's principal artists, ensemble, and orchestra, billed as At-Home Gala, was streamed live around the world in 162 countries on 25 April 2020, viewed by more than 750,000 global audience members.
The Metropolitan Opera to Stream TOSCA, SALOME, and More!
by A.A. Cristi
- May 18, 2020
The Met has announced the Weeks 10 and 11 schedules for its Nightly Met Opera Streams, a free series of encore Live in HD presentations streamed on the company website during the coronavirus closure.
BWW Review: Maggio Musicale's Home Gala
by Maria Nockin
- May 2, 2020
On Friday May 1, 2020, Florence Italy's Maggio Musicale presented a a?oeHome Galaa?? featuring artists singing at home accompanied by themselves, their housemates, or a pre-recorded track. In this year of pandemic, Opera Superintendent Alexander Pereira could not open his theater to its usual crowds, so he invited his artists to sing from their places of quarantine.
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