


March 22: Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin Conducted by Valery Gergiev, starring Renée Fleming, Ramón Vargas, and Dmitri Hvorostovsky. March 21: Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor Conducted by Marco Armiliato, starring Anna Netrebko, Piotr Beczała, and Mariusz Kwiecien. March 20: Donizetti’s La Fille du Régiment Conducted by Marco Armiliato, starring Natalie Dessay and Juan Diego Flórez. (Originally broadcast December 15, 2018.) March 19: Verdi’s La Traviata Conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, starring Diana Damrau, Juan Diego Flórez, and Quinn Kelsey. March 18: Verdi’s Il Trovatore Conducted by Marco Armiliato, starring Anna Netrebko, Dolora Zajick, Yonghoon Lee, and Dmitri Hvorostovsky. March 17: Puccini’s La Bohème Conducted by Nicola Luisotti, starring Angela Gheorghiu and Ramón Vargas. March 16: Bizet’s Carmen Conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, starring Elīna Garanča and Roberto Alagna. See below for the schedule of the Met's first week of streams. With no stage, performers and performing arts companies have taken to the internet to offer alternative experiences, from online concert series to group gaming sessions. Broadway shows will go dark through April 12 Carnegie Hall has scrapped all remaining March events Off-Broadway and regional theatres across the country have postponed the remainders of their seasons. The move is among many similar decisions from performing arts organizations across the country, who have canceled performances due to mass gathering restrictions as an effort to curb the spread of the disease. (The featured performances-and several others-are available via the Met Opera on Demand subscription service, though the videos in the nightly series will be made available for free for 20 hours following the initial stream). The performances, originally captured as live broadcasts in movie theatres worldwide, will begin at 7:30 PM from the company's homepage. Although the Metropolitan Opera has brought down the curtain at least through the end of the month over COVID-19 concerns, the New York City institution will offer another way for audiences to take in its performances.īeginning March 16, the Met will stream a title from its Live in HD series each night through the duration of the closure.
