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Verdi's Rewuiem" The Met Remembers 9/11
In commemeoration of the 20th Aniversary of 9/11, Musical director Yannick Nezet-Séguin leads a special performance of Verdi's stirring Requiem, featuring the incomparable MetOrchestra and Chorus and fu=our of today's moat compelling artists - Ailyn Pérez, mezzo-soprano Elïna Garanca, tenor Matthew Polenzani, and bass-baritoe Eric Owens. The concert will also be broadcast live on PBS hosed by Mary Copeland. LEARN MORE
Please note that all attendees must wear a facemask while inside the Met and provide proof of full vaccination againdt COVID-19.
Met Opera on Demand
It's the last week to save on the Met's popular streaming service. With this special offer, you can access a full year of extraordinary opera fir just US$99.99.
Relive unfoprgettable Met moments and explore the full catalog of more than 750 complete performancvces-including Live on HD transmissions, classic telecasts, and historic radio broadcasts-anytime, anywhere on all your favourite devices. SUBSCRIBE NOW WATCH TRAILER
At thia time, the Met Opera on Demand apps for Apple TV, iPad, andiPhone are only abailable in the App Store in ther following countires, USA, Albania, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Cyprus, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, India, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxemberg, Malta, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Rpmania, Russia, Slovalia, South Africa. Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan and UK.
Nightly Opera Streams
During this extraordinary and difficult time, the Metro hopes to brighten the lives of the ausience members evenwhile the stage is dark. Each say, a different encore presentation from the company's Live in HD series is being made avaiable for free streaming on the Met website, with each performance available for a period of 23 hours, from 7.30pm EDT until 6.30pm the following day. The schedule will include outstanding complete performances from the past 14 years of cinema transmissions, starring all of opera's greatest singers.
The streams are also avaible through the Met Opera on Demand, apps for Apple, Amazon, and Roku devices and Samsung Smart TV. To address them without logging in, click "Browse and Preview" in the apps for connected TV and "Explore the App" on tablets and mobile devises/.
Met Stars Live in Concert: New Events!
Last Sunday's breathtaking performance, starring sopranos Atlyn Pérez and Nadine Sierra and mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonardm is available on demand now through to Friday, June 4. 2021. The three dazzling divas sing a program of arias, duets, and trios, transmitted via satellite from the spectacular Royal Opera in Frnace's Palace of Versailles.
Pianist Vlad Iftjnca and guitarist Pablo Sáinz-Villegas accompany the concert, which also includes a selection of enchanting Spanish and Portugese songs.
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Nightly Opera Streams: Black History Month athe the Met, Part II
Enjoy a second week of free Nightly Opera Streams paying tribute to some the remarkable African American stars who have graced the Met stage. Featuring both historic telecasts and recent Live in HD transmissions, the lineup showcases outstanding performances from legendary artists like Jessye Norman, Kathleen Battle and Leona Mitchell, as well as two present-day stars Eric Owens and Nai Brisges. Enhance your viewing experience with a curated collection of related content, including articles, viseos. odcasts, and more.
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Met Stars Live in Concert
Opera's greatest stars perform in a groundgreaking, new series of pay-per-view recitals in striking locations around the globe, each via satellite and shot with multiple cameras. While the Metropolitan Opera HOuse remains dark because of the ongoing health crisis, Meet Stars Live in Concert will allow audiences to experience extraordiary solo and duo performances by top singers - streamed live online - from such locations as a former abbey in Bavaria, a Norwegian castle, an outdoor terrace on a cliff overlooking the Mediterranian Sea, a church in Wales, and an historic mansion in Washington DC.
The series marries the intimacy of the Met's virtual At-Home Gala with the high production value of the company's Live in HD ceries of cinema transmissions.
Tickets for each concert are US$20, and the performances will remain available on demand for 14 days. Each concert will run for approximately 75 minutes. The full schedule os below.
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Area Code: New Episode Streaming Now
Un the latest episde of Metro's Aria Code podcast created with WQXR high-flying soprano Erin Morley dives into the dizzying Foll song from Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffman.
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2022-2023 Season
Last week Metro opera annouunced the stunning lineup for the 2022-2023 season and subscritions are on sale now! Audiences will be able to enjoy deven new productions, the most in ten seasons. Including the world-premiere staging of Kevin Put's The Hours which brings topgether sopranos Renée Fleming and Kelli O'Hara and mezzo soprano Joyce DiDonato.
The season also features the company premieres of Cherubini's Medea and Terence Blanchsrd's Champion; Francois Girard's atmospheric new ataging of Wagner's Lohengrin: new productions of two Mozart classics Die Zauberflõte andDon Givanni; and a special New Year's e
ve Gala premiere of Giordano's Fedoraa, featuring soprano Sanya Yoncheva in the title role.
The season also features 16 revivals - a mix of repertory favourites, including La Traviata, Tosca and La Boheme, as well as lesser performed masterpieces Peter Grimes, Dialogues des Carmelites, and Lady Macbeth of Misensk. And during the holiday season, the company will also be bringing back the popular abridged English language version of The Magic Flute.
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Eurydice
The ancient Greek myth of Orpheus, who attempts to harness the power of music to rescue his beloved Eurydice from the underworld has inspired composers since opera's early days. Brilliant American composer Matthew Aucon now carries that tradition into the 21st century with a cativating new take on the story - a product of the Met's commissiohing program. With a libretto by Sarah Ruhl, adapted from her acclaimed 2003 plqy, the opera reimagines the familiar tale form Eurydice's point of view. Yannick Nézet-Séguin oversees the December 4 transmission, leading Aucoin's evocative music and an ommersive new staging by Mary Zimmerman, Soprano Erin Morley sings the title role, opposite baritone Joshua Hopkins as Orpheus and countertenr Jakub Jozef Orlinski as his otherworldly alter-ego. Bass baritone Nathan Berg is Eurydice's father and fellow resident of the underworld, with Barry Banks as Hades himself. The live cinema is part of the Met's award-winning Live in HD series bringing opera to movie theatres across the globe
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Vocal Showcase - A Destival of Puccini
The influence of 19th century Italian, German, and French symphonic and harmonic traditions is apparent with Puccini,, as well as sounds from other nations, like Puccini's use of American, Chinese and Japanese folk melodies. Jojn Jane Marsh at the Bruno Walter Auditorium, as she and a group of talented singers ahowcase scenes from Puccini's greatest and most beloved works.
Season: Sunday February 13. 2022 at 2 - 4.30pm.
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Master Class - Harolyn Blackwell
Join soprano and educatgor Harolyn Blackwell in-person at the Bruno Walter Auditorium for an evening exploring the wide range of English language repertoire in the operatic canon. Ms. Blackwell will guide three young xingers in this Master Class.
Season: Wednesday March 16. 2022 at 7[m - 8.30pm.
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Course - The Evolution of the Ingénue
The ingénue is a young girl who is engagingly sweet and often naíve. In our operas this season, the ingénueis presented as a lyric soprano interpretated with the varied stylistic tools of composers, Mozart, Verdi, Puccini, and Stravinsky.
Jane Marsh addresses each ingénue, and herparticular composer's style, in a four-week course with live singers in each session.
Season: March 9, 16, 23, 30. 2022 at 2pm - 3.30pm.
Don Carlos
For the first time in company history, the Met presents the original five-act French version of Verdi's epic opera of doomed love among royalty, set against the backdrop of the Spwnish Inqusition. Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads a worlld-beating cast of opera's leading lights in this March 26 performance, including Matthew Polenzani in the title role, soprano Sonya Yoncheva as Elizabeth de Valois, and mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton as Eboli. Bass-baritone Eric Owens are Philippe II and the Grand Inquisitor, and baritone Etienne Dupuis rounds out the all-star principal cast as Rodrique.
Verdi's masterpiece receives a monumental new ataging by David McVicar that masks his 11th Mert production, placing him among the most prolific and popular directors in recent Met memory. This live cinema transmission is art of the Met's award-winning Live in HD series, bringing opera to movie theatres across the globe.
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Estimated run time 4hrs 35 minutes
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Timing: Acts 1 & 2 90 minutes Intermission 30 minutes Act III 35 minutes, Intermission 30 minutes, Acts IV and V 90 minutes.
Verdi's longest and most ambitious opera -- which appears this season in its original, five-act French version - offers a profoound look at the intersection of the perdonal and the political spheres. The opera features a number of complex one-on-one confrotations, and he chorus, when it appears, is imposing, most notably in the central auto-da-fé.
The grandeur of the score telescopes in Acts IV and V to the individuals, with magnificent and melodically rich solo scenes.
Maasterclass - Baroque Singing.
Artist of the Baroque Era were expected to understand that only one emotion was allowed in an aria and the sppropiate ornamentation was expecred to be improvised by the artist, likely differing in each performance. Join our Master Teacher Steven Hryoelak as he guides three songers through this magnificent style.
Season: Sunday May 15. 2-22 at 3pm - 4.30pm.
On Stage this Month
This May, countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo returns in the role of Philip Glaee' mesmerising masterpiece Akhaten, and soprano Eleonora Buratto and tenor Yusif Eycazov star as the bohemian lovers Mimi and Rodolfo in a limited run of Puccini's La boheme. And at the end of the month, Stravinsky's innovatiove satire The Rakes Progress takes the stage, featuring tenor Ben Elliss as the pleasure-seeking Tom Rakewell.
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