Free Opera Streaming Roundup #2

(Week of March 21, 2020.)

Hello. I hope you’re all doing OK.

OperaWire has an excellent roundup post of all the opera houses and companies offering free streaming right now. I’ve used it extensively while putting together the schedule below. Not all opera houses on OperaWire’s list are on my schedule; omissions are mainly due to my limited time and to my not being able to find any kind of sensible streaming schedule on La Monnaie’s website.

Also, the Berlin Philharmoniker is offering free streaming with the voucher BERLINPHIL.

This past week, I streamed Péter Eötvös’s Tri Sestry from Wiener Staatsoper. And here’s a sample of the links below: Canada’s Against the Grain Theatre and their version of La Bohème.

TOMORROW, Saturday, March 21

• Ongoing: Beth Morrison Projects offers free streaming of their Opera of the Week, Dog Days, based on the short story of the same name by Judy Budnitz, composed by David T. Little with a libretto by Royce Vavrek, and directed by Robert Woodruff. Stream at the BMP website.

• Ongoing: Canada’s Against the Grain Theatre offers free streaming of their English-language translation/adaptation of Puccini’s La Bohème, set in Toronto’s Annex neighborhood. Stream on their website or on YouTube.

• Ongoing: March 21 is the last day to stream this 2014 performance of Janáček’s Jenůfa at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, directed by Christof Loy and conducted by Donald Runnicles. Their next free streaming offering will be Wagner’s Rienzi, from March 21 to 23. For children, Brigitte Dethier’s production of The Snow Queen, composed by Simon Penderbayne, will be available until the 24th. Stream via the Deutsche Oper Berlin homepage.

• Ongoing: March 21 is the last day to stream Tosca from Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, starring Oksana Dyka as Tosca, Stefano La Colla as Cavaradossi, and Roberto Frontali as Scarpia. Stream via their YouTube channel.

• 7:00 AM EDT: Staatsoper unter den Linden in Berlin offers free streaming of Andrea Breth’s production of Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier, conducted by Zubin Mehta. Stream via their YouTube channel. (scroll down and click the box that says “Zum Video”)

• 9:00 AM EDT: Wiener Staatsoper offers free streaming of Sven-Eric Bechtolf’s production of Rossini’s La Cenerentola, conducted by Speranza Scappucci, starring Elena Maximova as Angelina. Originally broadcast live on November 10, 2016. Stream here.

• 7:30 PM EDT: The Met offers free streaming of Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, conducted by Marco Armiliato, starring Anna Netrebko, Piotr Beczała, and Mariusz Kwiecien. Performance from February 7, 2009. Stream here.

Sunday, March 22

• Ongoing: March 22 is the last day to stream Andrea Chénier from Teatro dell’Opera di Roma. Stream via their YouTube channel.

• 7:00 AM EDT: Wiener Staatsoper offers free streaming of Sven-Eric Bechtolf’s production of Wagner’s Siegfried, conducted by Axel Kober, starring Stephen Gould as Siegfried. Originally broadcast live on January 16, 2019. Stream here.

• 7:30 PM EDT: The Met offers free streaming of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, conducted by Valery Gergiev, starring Renée Fleming, Ramón Vargas, and Dmitri Hvorostovsky. Performance from February 24, 2007. Stream here.

Monday, March 23

• 7:00 AM EDT: Staatsoper unter den Linden in Berlin offers free streaming of “Staatsoper für Alle”, an open-air concert, featuring Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and conducted by Daniel Barenboim. Originally filmed September 30, 2017. Stream via their YouTube channel. (scroll down and click the box that says “Zum Video”)

• 9:00 AM EDT: Wiener Staatsoper offers free streaming of Margarethe Wallmann’s production of Puccini’s Tosca, conducted by Marco Armiliato, starring Sondra Radvanovsky as Tosca, Piotr Beczała as Cavaradossi, and Thomas Hampson as Scarpia. Originally broadcast live on February 17, 2019. Stream here.

• 3:15 PM EDT: Bayerische Staatsoper offers free live streaming of their second Monday Concert, a new series featuring lieder, solo instrumentalists, chamber music and dance performances. Live stream here.

• 7:30 PM EDT: The Met offers free streaming of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde, conducted by Simon Rattle, starring Nina Stemme, Ekaterina Gubanova, Stuart Skelton, Evgeny Nikitin, and René Pape. Performance from October 8, 2016. Stream here.

• Ongoing: Deutsche Oper Berlin offers free streaming of a 1995 performance of Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg in a production by Götz Friedrich, conducted by Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos. Available until March 25. Stream via their website.

Tuesday, March 24

• Teatro dell’Opera di Roma offers free streaming of Mario Martone’s production of Hans Werner Henze’s The Bassarids, conducted by Stefan Soltesz. Streaming link to their YouTube channel will become available here.

• 9:00 AM EDT: Wiener Staatsoper offers free streaming of Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore, based on Otto Schenk’s staging, conducted by Marco Armiliato. Originally broadcast live on February 26, 2017. Stream here.

• 7:30 PM EDT: The Met offers free streaming of Wagner’s Das Rheingold, conducted by James Levine, starring Wendy Bryn Harmer, Stephanie Blythe, Richard Croft, Gerhard Siegel, Dwayne Croft, Bryn Terfel, Eric Owens, and Hans-Peter König. Performance from October 9, 2010. Stream here.

Wednesday, March 25

• Teatro dell’Opera di Roma offers free streaming of Robert Carsen’s production of Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice, conducted by Gianluca Capuano. Streaming link to their YouTube channel will become available here.

• Deutsche Oper Berlin offers free streaming of Mahlermania: The Cosmos of Gustav Mahler’s Songs, through the 27th. Stream here.

• 7:00 AM EDT: Staatsoper unter den Linden in Berlin offers free streaming of Mario Martone’s production of Verdi’s Falstaff, conducted by Daniel Barenboim. Stream via their YouTube channel. (scroll down and click the box that says “Zum Video”)

• 7:00 AM EDT: Bayerische Staatsoper offers free streaming of Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, with Kirill Petrenko, Diana Damrau, and Pavol Breslik. Stream here.

• 9:00 AM EDT: Wiener Staatsoper offers free streaming of Sven-Eric Bechtolf’s production of Rossini’s La Cenerentola, conducted by Jean-Christophe Spinosi, starring Isabel Leonard as Angelina. Originally broadcast live on February 22, 2018. Stream here.

• 2:30 PM EDT: Opéra National de Paris offers free streaming of Vincent Huguet’s production of Massenet’s Manon, conducted by Dan Ettinger, starring Pretty Yende in the title role. Stream via Medici.tv.

• 7:30 PM EDT: The Met offers free streaming of Wagner’s Die Walküre, conducted by James Levine, starring Deborah Voigt, Eva-Maria Westbroek, Stephanie Blythe, Jonas Kaufmann, Bryn Terfel, and Hans-Peter König. Performance from May 14, 2011. Stream here.

Thursday, March 26

• Teatro dell’Opera di Roma offers free streaming of Àlex Ollé’s production of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, conducted by Yves Abel. Streaming link to their YouTube channel will become available here.

• 7:00 AM EDT: Staatsoper unter den Linden in Berlin offers free streaming of Aletta Collins’s production of Jean-Philippe Rameau’s Hippolyte et Aricie, conducted by Simon Rattle, with set, light, and costume design by Ólafur Elíasson. Stream via their YouTube channel. (scroll down and click the box that says “Zum Video”)

• 9:00 AM EDT: Wiener Staatsoper offers free streaming of Margarethe Wallmann’s production of Puccini’s Tosca, conducted by Mikko Franck, starring Karine Babajanyan as Tosca, Piotr Beczała as Cavaradossi, and Carlos Álvarez as Scarpia. Originally broadcast live on June 23, 2019. Stream here.

• 7:30 PM EDT: The Met offers free streaming of Wagner’s Siegfried, conducted by Fabio Luisi, starring Deborah Voigt, Jay Hunter Morris, Gerhard Siegel, Bryn Terfel, and Eric Owens. Performance from November 5, 2011. Stream here.

Friday, March 27

• Deutsche Oper Berlin offers free streaming of Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s Die tote Stadt, through the 29th. Stream via their homepage.

• 7:00 AM EDT: Staatsoper unter den Linden in Berlin offers free streaming of Martin Kušej’s production of Bizet’s Carmen, conducted by Daniel Barenboim, starring Anita Rachvelishvili as Carmen and Michael Fabiano as Don José. Stream via their YouTube channel. (scroll down and click the box that says “Zum Video”)

• 9:00 AM EDT: Wiener Staatsoper offers free streaming of Jean-Louis Martinoty’s production of Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro, conducted by Adam Fischer, starring Adam Plachetka as Figaro, Andrea Carroll as Susanna, Carlos Álvarez as Count Almaviva, and Dorothea Röschmann as Countess Almaviva. Originally broadcast live on September 15, 2017. Stream here.

• 7:30 PM EDT: The Met offers free streaming of Wagner’s Götterdämmerung, conducted by Fabio Luisi, starring Deborah Voigt, Wendy Bryn Harmer, Waltraud Meier, Jay Hunter Morris, Iain Paterson, Eric Owens, and Hans-Peter König. Performance from February 11, 2012. Stream here.