Month: August 2020

In his first Live in HD transmission as Music Director of the Metropolitan Opera, Canadian conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin led a new production of La Traviata on December 15, 2018, and it’s this performance which the Met Opera is streaming online as part of its week-long celebration of the works of Giuseppe Verdi. Verdi’s three-act opera,…

Verdi Week continues at the Metropolitan Opera on Thursday, August 27, with Giuseppe Verdi’s Un Ballo in Maschera (A Masked Ball) – recorded for the Company’s Live in HD series, and broadcast on December 8, 2012. Although the plot revolves around the assassination of King Gustav III of Sweden in 1792, this production by David…

The current pandemic has without doubt stirred the creativity of many arts organisations and artists, and Mexican conductor Alondra de la Parra has provided yet another example of what can be achieved, seemingly against all odds. So touched was she by the plight of the women and children of her homeland who are particularly vulnerable…

In the third presentation of its Verdi Week, the Metropolitan Opera streams a performance of Luisa Miller, first broadcast on April 14, 2018, as part of the company’s Live in HD series of cinema transmissions. This online performance stars Bulgarian soprano Sonya Yoncheva in the title role, with Polish tenor Piotr Beczala as Luisa’s beloved…

Verdi Week at the Metropolitan Opera continues on Tuesday, August 25, with the online transmission of Il Trovatore (The Troubador). This production, recorded on October 3, 2015 as part of the Met’s Live in HD series, stars soprano Anna Netrebko as Leonora, tenor Yonghoon Lee is the troubadour Manrico, Count di Luna is sung by…

This is Verdi week in the Metropolitan Opera’s series of free online transmissions. Devoted to some of the greatest operatic works written by Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi, the program features complete performances of Rigoletto, Il Trovatore, Luisa Miller, Un Ballo in Maschera, La Traviata, Don Carlo and Falstaff – each recorded as part of the…

This week SFJAZZ, together with the National Endowment for the Arts, hosts a very special event – a tribute to the 2020 NEA Jazz Masters – Dorthaan Kirk, Bobby McFerrin, Roscoe Mitchell, and Reggie Workman – in a free broadcast. The National Endowment for the Arts has, since 1982, awarded 157 fellowships to great figures…

Giacomo Puccini’s final opera Turandot is this evening’s online transmission from the Metropolitan Opera. A sumptuous production by Franco Zeffirelli, the performance stars Swedish soprano Nina Stemme as the icy Princess Turandot, and Italian tenor Marco Berti as Calaf, the prince who would win her heart, with Romanian soprano Anita Hartig as the slave girl…

Benjamin Millepied has directed a new work for the dancers of San Francisco Ballet, embracing a range of emotions created by the current situation in which the world finds itself. Dance of Dreams seamlessly blends four short dance sequences – choreographed by Justin Peck, Dwight Rhoden, Janie Taylor and Christopher Wheeldon – into a miniature…

Today’s online broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera features Sir Richard Eyre’s production of Georges Bizet’s hugely popular opera Carmen. In 1872 Bizet was commissioned by the theatre director of the Opéra-Comique in Paris to write an opera for the company. The libretto, by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halevy, was an adaptation of the 1845 novella…