Metropolitan Opera: At-Home Gala, Week-Six of their Streaming Schedule, and Playlist
The Met announces plans to livestream an At-Home Gala on April 25 at 1pm EDT, which will be streamed from the Met’s website. The free concert will feature more than 40 leading Met artists performing live from their homes around the world via Skype. Highlights include: Anna Netrebko in Vienna, Angel Blue in New Jersey, Anthony Roth Costanzo in New York City, Michael Fabiano in Florida, Nadine Sierra in Valencia, and Renée Fleming in Virginia.
General Manager Peter Gelb will be hosting and producing the event from his apartment on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, Yannick Nézet-Séguin will be co-hosting from his apartment in Montreal. Nézet-Séguin will also be participating in the gala as a pianist.
The program will be available on demand on the Met website after the live showing until 6:30pm EDT the following day.
Classical Post has curated the following playlist featuring the artists who are participating in the Met’s At-Home Gala.
The At-Home Gala builds on the success of the company’s Nightly Met Opera Streams, a series of encore presentations of Live in HD performances, made available each day on the Met website for free. Since the nightly streams launched on March 16, they have attracted more than 4 million viewers around the world, representing more than 200 million minutes of viewing time. All Nightly Met Opera Streams begin at 7:30pm and remain available for 23 hours.
Here is the schedule for the sixth week of streams:
Monday, April 20 – R. Strauss’s Elektra
Conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen, starring Nina Stemme, Adrianne Pieczonka, Waltraud Meier, and Eric Owens. Transmitted live on April 30, 2016.
Tuesday, April 21 – Puccini’s Tosca
Conducted by Emmanuel Villaume, starring Sonya Yoncheva, Vittorio Grigolo, and Željko Lučić. Transmitted live on January 27, 2018.
Wednesday, April 22 – Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann
Conducted by James Levine, starring Anna Netrebko, Kathleen Kim, Ekaterina Gubanova, Joseph Calleja, and Alan Held. Transmitted live on December 19, 2009.
Thursday, April 23 – Lehar’s The Merry Widow
Conducted by Sir Andrew Davis, starring Renée Fleming, Kelli O’Hara, and Nathan Gunn. Transmitted live on January 17, 2015.
Friday, April 24 – Verdi’s La Traviata
Conducted by Fabio Luisi, starring Natalie Dessay, Matthew Polenzani, and Dmitri Hvorostovsky. Transmitted live on April 14, 2012.
Saturday, April 25 – At-Home Gala (begins at 1pm)
More than 40 leading artists perform in a live stream from their homes around the world.
Sunday, April 26 – Rossini’s La Cenerentola
Conducted by Fabio Luisi, starring Joyce DiDonato and Juan Diego Flórez. Transmitted live on May 10, 2014.
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