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New York: Metropolitan Opera nightly opera streams for the week of June 15

Monday, June 15, 2020

The Met has announced Weeks 14 schedule for its Nightly Met Opera Streams, which features a repeat viewing of the company's At-Home Gala, originally seen live on April 25, and viewed by more than 750,000 people. The gala will be available for a 48-hour period on Friday and Saturday, June 12 and 13. The following weekend will feature the Met's acclaimed productions of Philip Glass's Akhnaten and Satyagraha, both available to the public for the first time on the Met's streaming platforms.

All Nightly Met Opera Streams begin at 7:30pm and remain available via metopera.org for 23 hours, with the exception of the At Home Gala. The performances are also accessible on all Met Opera on Demand apps.

Here is the schedule for the upcoming streams: 

Monday, June 15 – Rossini’s Armida
Conducted by Riccardo Frizza; starring Renée Fleming, Lawrence Brownlee, John Osborn, Barry Banks, and Kobie van Rensburg. Transmitted live on May 1, 2010.

Tuesday, June 16 – Rossini’s Semiramide
Conducted by Maurizio Benini; starring Angela Meade, Elizabeth DeShong, Javier Camarena, Ildar Abdrazakov, and Ryan Speedo Green. Transmitted live on March 10, 2018.

Wednesday, June 17 – Gluck’s Iphigénie en Tauride
Conducted by Patrick Summers; starring Susan Graham, Plácido Domingo, and Paul Groves. Transmitted live on February 26, 2011.

Thursday, June 18, and Friday, June 19– Verdi’s La Forza del Destino
Conducted by James Levine; starring Leontyne Price, Giuseppe Giacomini, Leo Nucci, and Bonaldo Giaiotti. Transmitted live on March 24, 1984.

Saturday, June 20 – Philip Glass’s Akhnaten
Conducted by Karen Kamensek; starring Dísella Lárusdóttir, J'Nai Bridges, Anthony Roth Costanzo, Aaron Blake, Will Liverman, Richard Bernstein, Zachary James. Transmitted live on November 23, 2019.

Sunday, June 21 – Philip Glass’s Satyagraha
Conducted by Dante Anzolini; starring Rachelle Durkin, Richard Croft, Kim Josephson, and Alfred Walker. Transmitted live on November 19, 2011.

Photo: Anthony Roth Costanzo as Akhnaten. © 2019 The Metropolitan Opera.