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What a year is 2020! When the corona virus pandemic is first started in China, most of thought it wont't get this far. Just a month age, we were still negotiating if we should cancel our vacation plans or not. But now, as most major international companies did, most of us are working from home, the schools are suspended and most of entertainment activities are postponed to mid April -but probably will be postponed again. Beginning with last week, most of the major concert halls and opera houses cancelled their performances. It was certainly a good decision since it is very important not to be in crowded places right now. Since panic and stress is started to increase among all of us, one by one concert halls and opera houses offered free streamings! So here is the list you can explore for free during the corona virus pandemic while you are in home / quarantina!  Berlin Philharmonics Digital Concert Hall
Berlin Philharmonic offers 30 day free streaming of all the archives on Digital Concert Hall! Just explore amazing recordings and performances for free without wasting any time. They are also offering live performances streamed through the website during this hard times. https://www.digitalconcerthall.com/en/ Metropolitan Opera 'Nighly Met Opera Streams' Since Met Opera is also closed, they offered free streamings of previous performances every night starting from 16 March Monday. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to witness those legendary singers and stagings for free. Definitely will uplift your mood if you're too concerned by the emptied non-perishable shelves in supermarkets. Streamings will start at 7.30 pm and will be available for 20 hours on their website and Opera on Demand application: https://www.metopera.org/ Here is the first weeks programme: Monday, March 16 – Bizet’s “Carmen” Conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, starring Elīna Garanča and Roberto Alagna. Transmitted live on January 16, 2010. Tuesday, March 17 – Puccini’s “La Bohème” Conducted by Nicola Luisotti, starring Angela Gheorghiu and Ramón Vargas. Transmitted live on April 5, 2008. Wednesday, March 18 – Verdi’s “Il Trovatore” Conducted by Marco Armiliato, starring Anna Netrebko, Dolora Zajick, Yonghoon Lee, and Dmitri Hvorostovsky. Transmitted live on October 3, 2015. Thursday, March 19 – Verdi’s “La Traviata” Conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, starring Diana Damrau, Juan Diego Flórez, and Quinn Kelsey. Transmitted live on December 15, 2018. Friday, March 20 – Donizetti’s “La Fille du Régiment” Conducted by Marco Armiliato, starring Natalie Dessay and Juan Diego Flórez. Transmitted live on April 26, 2008. Saturday, March 21 – Donizetti’s “Lucia di Lammermoor” Conducted by Marco Armiliato, starring Anna Netrebko, Piotr Beczała, and Mariusz Kwiecien. Transmitted live on February 7, 2009. Sunday, March 22 – Tchaikovsky’s “Eugene Onegin” Conducted by Valery Gergiev, starring Renée Fleming, Ramón Vargas, and Dmitri Hvorostovsky. Transmitted live on February 24, 2007. Free streamings continue with the Wagner week! Here is the schedule: Monday, March 23 Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde Starring Nina Stemme, Ekaterina Gubanova, Stuart Skelton, Evgeny Nikitin, and René Pape, conducted by Simon Rattle. From October 8, 2016. Tuesday, March 24 Wagner’s Das Rheingold Starring Wendy Bryn Harmer, Stephanie Blythe, Richard Croft, Gerhard Siegel, Dwayne Croft, Bryn Terfel, Eric Owens, and Hans-Peter König, conducted by James Levine. From October 9, 2010. Wednesday, March 25 Wagner’s Die Walküre Starring Deborah Voigt, Eva-Maria Westbroek, Stephanie Blythe, Jonas Kaufmann, Bryn Terfel, and Hans-Peter König, conducted by James Levine. From May 14, 2011. Thursday, March 26 Wagner’s Siegfried Starring Deborah Voigt, Jay Hunter Morris, Gerhard Siegel, Bryn Terfel, and Eric Owens, conducted by Fabio Luisi. From November 5, 2011. Friday, March 27 Wagner’s Götterdämmerung Starring Deborah Voigt, Wendy Bryn Harmer, Waltraud Meier, Jay Hunter Morris, Iain Paterson, Eric Owens, and Hans-Peter König, conducted by Fabio Luisi. From February 11, 2012. Saturday, March 28 Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Starring Annette Dasch, Johan Botha, Paul Appleby, and Michael Volle, conducted by James Levine. From December 13, 2014. Sunday, March 29 Wagner’s Tannhäuser Starring Eva-Maria Westbroek, Michelle DeYoung, Johan Botha, Peter Mattei, and Gunther Groissböck, conducted by James Levine. From October 31, 2015. Vienna State Opera Live Streamings Wien Staatsoper also offers free recordings of previous performances through https://www.staatsoperlive.com/ Starting from today, 15 March, Sunday, you can witness a wide range of programme with world class singers, conducters and directors. Performances scheduled to follow to original timings of the Opera House, starting 7 pm will also be available for 24 hours. So for the most of the streamings, you don't have to worry for the time difference. Programme includes Wagner's Ring tetralogy that will be enough to excite opera lovers worldwide! Here is the schedules programme: 15 March 2020: Das Rheingold (performance of 10 January 2016) conductor: Adam Fischer | Inszenierung: Sven-Eric Bechtolf with mit Tomasz Konieczny (Wotan), Boaz Daniel (Donner), Jason Bridges (Froh), Norbert Ernst (Loge), Jochen Schmeckenbecher (Alberich), Herwig Pecoraro (Mime), Ain Anger (Fasolt), Sorin Coliban (Fafner), Michaela Schuster (Fricka), Caroline Wenborne (Freia), Anna Larsson (Erda) 16 March 2020: Falstaff (performance of 30 January 2019) conductor: James Conlon | director: David McVicar with Carlos Álvarez (Sir John Falstaff), Simon Keenlyside (Ford), Jinxu Xiahou (Fenton), Herwig Pecoraro (Bardolfo), Ryan Speedo Green (Pistola), Michael Laurenz (Dr. Cajus), Olga Bezsmertna (Alice Ford), Hila Fahima (Nannetta), Monika Bohinec (Mrs. Quickly), Margaret Plummer (Meg Page) 17 March 2020: Tri Sestri (performance of 18 March 2016) conductor: Péter Eötvös | conductor of the stage orchestra: Jonathan Stockhammer director: Yuval Sharon with Aida Garifullina (Irina), Margarita Gritskova (Mascha), Ilseyar Khayrullova (Olga), Eric Jurenas (Natascha), Boaz Daniel (Tusenbach), Clemens Unterreiner (Verschinin), Gabriel Bermúdez (Andrei), Dan Paul Dumitrescu (Kulygin), Norbert Ernst (Doktor), Victor Shevchenko (Soljony), Marcus Pelz (Anfissa), Jason Bridges (Rodé), Jinxu Xiahou (Fedotik) 18 March 2020: Die Walküre (performance of 31 May 2015) conductor: Simon Rattle | director: Sven-Eric Bechtolf with Christopher Ventris (Siegmund), Mikhail Petrenko (Hunding),Tomasz Konieczny (Wotan), Martina Serafin (Sieglinde), Evelyn Herlitzius (Brünnhilde), Michaela Schuster (Fricka) 19 March 2020: Falstaff (performance of 15 December 2016) conductor: Zubin Mehta | director: David McVicar with Ambrogio Maestri (Sir John Falstaff), Ludovic Tézier (Ford), Paolo Fanale (Fenton), Herwig Pecoraro (Bardolfo), Riccardo Fassi (Pistola), Thomas Ebenstein (Dr. Cajus), Carmen Giannattasio (Alice Ford), Hila Fahima (Nannetta),Marie-Nicole Lemieux (Mrs. Quickly), Lilly Jørstad (Meg Page) 20 March 2020: Tosca (performance of 5 December 2015) conductor: Dan Ettinger | director: Margarethe Wallmann with María José Siri (Floria Tosca), Roberto Alagna (Mario Cavaradossi), Michael Volle (Baron Scarpia) 21 March 2020: La cenerentola (performance of 22 February 2018) conductor: Jean-Christophe Spinosi | director: Sven-Eric Bechtolf with Maxim Mironov (Don Ramiro), Alessio Arduini (Dandini), Paolo Rumetz (Don Magnifico), Ileana Tonca (Clorinda), Margaret Plummer (Tisbe), Isabel Leonard (Angelina), Luca Pisaroni (Alidoro) 22 March 2020: Siegfried (performance of 16 January 2019) conductor: Axel Kober | director: Sven-Eric Bechtolf with Stephen Gould (Siegfried), Iréne Theorin (Brünnhilde),Tomasz Konieczny (Der Wanderer), Jochen Schmeckenbecher (Alberich), Monika Bohinec (Erda), Herwig Pecoraro (Mime), Sorin Coliban (Fafner) 23 March 2020: Tosca (performance of 17 February 2019) conductor: Marco Armiliato | director: Margarethe Wallmann with Sondra Radvanovsky (Floria Tosca), Piotr Beczała (Mario Cavaradossi), Thomas Hampson (Baron Scarpia) 24 March 2020: L’elisir d’amore (performance of 26 February 2017) conductor: Marco Armiliato | director: Otto Schenk with Olga Peretyatko (Adina), Dmitry Korchak (Nemorino), Alessio Arduini (Belcore), Adam Plachetka (Doktor Dulcamara), Ileana Tonca (Giannetta) 25 March 2020: La cenerentola (performance of 10 November 2016) conductor: Speranza Scappucci | director: Sven-Eric Bechtolf with Maxim Mironov (Don Ramiro), Alessio Arduini (Dandini), Renato Girolami (Don Magnifico), Eri Nakamura (Clorinda), Catherine Trottmann (Tisbe), Elena Maximova (Angelina), Michele Pertusi (Alidoro) 26 March 2020: Tosca (performance of 23 June 2019) conductor: Marco Armiliato | director: Margarethe Wallmann with Karine Babajanyan (Floria Tosca), Piotr Beczała (Mario Cavaradossi), Carlos Álvarez (Baron Scarpia) 27 March 2020: Le nozze di Figaro (performance of 15 September 2017) conductor: Adam Fischer | director: Jean-Louis Martinoty with Carlos Álvarez (Conte d’Almaviva), Dorothea Röschmann (Contessa d’Almaviva), Andrea Carroll (Susanna), Adam Plachetka (Figaro), Margarita Gritskova (Cherubino) 28 March 2020: Götterdämmerung (performance of 20 January 2019) conductor: Axel Kober | director: Sven-Eric Bechtolf with Stephen Gould (Siegfried), Iréne Theorin (Brünnhilde), Anna Gabler (Gutrune), Falk Struckmann (Hagen), Tomasz Konieczny (Gunther), Jochen Schmeckenbecher (Alberich), Waltraud Meier (Waltraute) 29 March 2020: Roméo et Juliette (performance of 1 February 2017) conductor: Plácido Domingo | director: Jürgen Flimm with Aida Garifullina (Juliette), Rachel Frenkel (Stéphano), Rosie Aldridge (Gertrude), Juan Diego Flórez (Roméo), Carlos Osuna (Tybalt) 30 March 2020: Le nozze di Figaro (performance of 28 June 2016) conductor: Cornelius Meister | director: Jean-Louis Martinoty with Luca Pisaroni (Conte d’Almaviva), Rachel Willis-Sørensen (Contessa d’Almaviva), Valentina Naforniţă (Susanna), Alessio Arduini (Figaro), Marianne Crebassa (Cherubino) 31 March 2020: L’elisir d’amore (performance of 8 November 2018) conductor: Speranza Scappucci | director: Otto Schenk with Aida Garifullina (Adina), Benjamin Bernheim (Nemorino), Orhan Yildiz (Belcore), Paolo Rumetz (Doktor Dulcamara), Mariam Battistelli (Giannetta) 1 April 2020: Die Frau ohne Schatten (performance of 10 June 2019) conductor: Christian Thielemann | director: Vincent Huguet with Stephen Gould (Der Kaiser), Camilla Nylund (Die Kaiserin), Evelyn Herlitzius (Die Amme), Wolfgang Bankl (Geisterbote), Wolfgang Koch (Barak, der Färber), Nina Stemme (Färberin) 2 April 2020: Peer Gynt (performance of 10 December 2018) conductor: Simon Hewett | choreography and libretto: Edward Clug with Denys Cherevychko (Peer Gynt), Nina Poláková (Solveig), Eno Peci (Der Tod), Zsolt Török (Ein Hirsch), Franziska Wallner-Hollinek (Åse), Nikisha Fogo (Die Frau in Grün) Bayerische Staatsoper Live Streams Bayerische State Opera also offers free streaming through https://www.operlive.de/ Available streamings are Judith starring Nina Stemme and John Lundgren free till 26 March, and Il Travatore featuring Jonas Kaufmann and Anja Hertaros available until 28 March. More information here; https://www.staatsoper.de/en/stream/ Teatro Massimo TV Teatro Massimo is also make daily streaming thorugh http://www.teatromassimo.it/eng/teatro-massimo-tv-495/ You can follow the programme daily. Today's offerings is Danza d’autore… Bolero. Staatsoper Unter Der Linden Free Streamings Berlin State Opera just joined the club with the free streamings with an exciting programme. Hope all of your issue is to decide which free streaming to follow in this troubled times :) https://www.staatsoper-berlin.de/en/staatsoper/news/unser-taegliches-video-on-demand-programm-kostenlos-fuer-sie.142/ Here is the programme: March 17, 2020 “Manon” – Jules Massenet Conductor: Daniel Barenboim Director: Martin Kusej Starring Anna Netrebko, Rolando Villazón, Alfredo Daza, Christof Fischesser, Remy Corazza March 18, 2020 “Tristan und Isolde” – Richard Wagner Conductor: Daniel Barenboim Director: Tscherniakov Starring Andreas Schager, Anja Kampe, Stephen Milling, Boaz Daniel, Ekaterina Gubanova March 19, 2020 “Carmen” – Georges Bizet Conductor: Daniel Barenboim Director Martin Kušej Starring Anita Rachvelishvili, Michael Fabiano, Lucio Gallo, Christiane Karg March 20, 2020 ”Medea” – Luigi Cherubini Conductor:Daniel Barenboim Director: Andrea Breth Starring Sonya Yoncheva, Charles Castronovo, Iain Paterson, Elsa Dreisig March 21, 2020 ”Der Rosenkavalier” – Richard Strauss Conductor: Zubin Mehta Director: André Heller Starring Camilla Nylund, Michèle Losier, Günther Groissböck, Nadine Sierra, Roman Trekel March 23, 2020 ”Staatsoper für alle” – Open Air Concert 30. September 2017 Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 9 Conductor: Daniel Barenboim Starring Diana Damrau, Okka von der Damerau, Burkhard Fritz, René Pape, Staatsopernchor March 25, 2020 ”Falstaff” – Giuseppe Verdi Conductor: Daniel Barenboim Director: Andrea Breth Michael Volle, Barbara Frittoli, Alfredo DazaNadine Sierra, Francesco Demuro March 26, 2020 ”Hippolyte et Aricie” – Jean-Philippe Rameau Conductor: Simon Rattle Director: Aletta Collins Starring Anna Prohaska, Reinoud Van Mechelen, Magdalena Kožená, Elsa Dreisig Gyula Orendt March 27, 2020 ”Carmen” – Georges Bizet Conductor:Daniel Barenboim Director: Martin Kušej Starring Anita Rachvelishvili, Michael Fabiano, Lucio Gallo, Christiane Karg March 28, 2020 ”Macbeth”- Giuseppe Verdi Conductor: Daniel Barenboim Director: Harry Kupfer Starring Plácido Domingo, Anna Netrebko, Kwangchul Youn, Fabio Sartori March 29, 2020 “Manon” – Jules Massenet Conductor: Daniel Barenboim Director: Martin Kusej Starring Anna Netrebko, Rolando Villazón, Alfredo Daza, Christof Fischesser, Remy Corazza March 30 ”Die Zarenbraut” – Nikolai Rimski-Korsakow Conductor: Daniel Barenboim Director: Tscherniakov Starring Anatoli Kotscherga, Olga Peretyatko, Johannes Martin Kränzle, Anita Rachvelishvili April 1, 2020 ”Il Trovatore” – Giuseppe Verdi Conductor:Daniel Barenboim Director: Philipp Stölzl Plácido Domingo, Anna Netrebko, Gaston Rivero, Marina Prudenskaya April 3, 2020 ”Le nozze di Figaro”Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel Director: Jürgen Flimm Starring Ildebrando D‘Arcangelo, Dorothea Röschmann, Anna Prohaska, Lauri Vasar, Marianne Crebassa April 5, 2020 “Tristan und Isolde” – Richard Wagner Conductor: Daniel Barenboim Director: Tscherniakov Starring Andreas Schager, Anja Kampe, Stephen Milling, Boaz Daniel, Ekaterina Gubanova April 6, 2020 ”Tannhäuser” – Richard Wagner Conductor: Daniel Barenboim Director: Sasha Waltz Starring Peter Seiffert, Ann Petersen, Marina Prudenskaya, Peter Mattei, René Pape April 10, 2020 “Parsifal” – Richard Wagner Conductor: Daniel Barenboim Director: Tscherniakov Starring Andreas Schager, Anja Kampe, Wolfgang Koch, René Pape, Tómas Tómasson April 14, 2020 ”Violetter Schnee” – Beat Furrer Conductor: Matthias Pintscher Director: Claus Guth Starring Elsa Dreisig, Anna Prohaska, Martina Gedeck, Gyula Orendt, Georg Nigl, Otto Katzameier April 15, 2020 ”Die Verlobung im Kloster” – Sergej Prokojew Conductor: Daniel Barenboim Director: DStarringri Tscherniakov Aida Garifullina, Violetta Urmana, Anna Goryachova, Stephan Rügamer, Andrei Zhilikhovsky, Lauri Vasar April 16, 2020 “Der Rosenkavalier” – Richard Strauss Conductor: Zubin Mehta Director: André Heller Camilla Nylund, Michèle Losier, Günther Groissböck, Nadine Sierra, Roman Trekel There are also lots of singers offers live performances through their Facebook pages to boost the morale. So keep following your favorite performers on social media not to miss them. Joyce DiDonato and Piotr Beczala will perform excerpts from 'Werther' today, March 15, live from their Facebook page. Do not get over stressed by exposing yourself too much information on social media. And try to enjoy the fact that classical music lovers get the best of coronavirus pandemic after all! Stay safe and healthy! Ece Demirel Comments are closed.
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