If your only familiarity with Carmen is the film Carmen: A Hip Hopera starring a young Beyoncé, and the closest you’ve come to watching La Bohème is watching Rent: Live, this is a great way to expand your horizons.Ĭonducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, starring Elīna Garanča and Roberto Alagna. The first week’s schedule, outlined below, will be featuring timeless classics as Carmen, La Bohème, and La Traviata. EST and will be available to stream for 20 hours. The stream will be free and will present encores of The Met’s acclaimed Live in HD series. “Every night, we’ll be offering a different complete operatic gem from our collection of HD presentations from the past 14 years.” “We’d like to provide some grand opera solace to opera lovers in these extraordinarily difficult times,” said Met general manager Peter Gelb in a press release. OperaWire has reported that the Metropolitan Opera will host “Nightly Met Opera Streams” on its official website in an attempt to continue providing opera to its audience members.

Have you always thought that you could get really into opera if it were more easily accessible? Well, thanks to the coronavirus, now is your chance.

Lise Davidsen and Yusif Eyvazov perform during at a Metropolitan Opera production of ‘The Queen of Spades’ at Lincoln Center’s Metropolitan Opera House on November 26, 2019.

Met opera schedule 2020