Met Opera stars will shine in new pay-for-view series
The Metropolitan Opera’s Met Stars Live in Concert payper-view series continues into the new year. Three recitals are planned – Sondra Radvanovsky and Piotr Beczała on Saturday January 23, Anna Netrebko on Saturday February 6 and Sonya Yoncheva on Saturday February 27.
The final recital to be announced in the series will feature Angel Blue who starred in the Met’s New Year’s Eve Gala live-streamed from Augsburg, Germany together with Pretty Yende, Javier Camarena and Matthew Polenzani.
The Met Stars Live in Concert series, which first launched in July last year, stars some of opera’s most famous artists singing from locations across Europe and United States.
To date, in addition to the New Year’s Eve Gala, the series has featured Jonas Kaufmann from Polling, Bavaria; Renée Fleming from Washington DC; Roberto Alagna and Aleksandra Kurzak from Èze, France; Lise Davidsen from Oslo, Norway; Joyce DiDonato from Bochum, Germany; Diana Damrau and Joseph Calleja from Caserta, Italy; and Bryn Terfel from Brecon Cathedral in Wales.
The Met Stars Live in Concert recitals, viewed to date by audiences of more than 150,000 worldwide, are shot with multiple cameras, linked by satellite to a control room in New York City where host soprano Christine Goerke is situated.
Gary Halvorson, the award-winning director of the Met’s Live in HD cinema transmissions, directs.
The Met Opera’s free Nightly Opera Streams which began at the start of the lockdown will continue until Verdi’s Aida conducted by Music Director Yannick Nézet-Seguin opens the Met’s in September.
Saturday January 23 programme ... Sondra Radvanovsky and Piotr Beczała
Saturday January 23 at 6pm GMT/7pm CET
Live from Stadthalle in Wuppertal, Germany
Programme (subject to change):
Pace, pace, mio Dio – Verdi’s La Forza del Destino
Quando le sere al placido ... L’ara, o l’avello apprestami – Verdi’s Luisa Miller
Teco io sto ... Non sai tu che se l’anima mia ... Oh qual soave brivido – Verdi’s Un Ballo in Maschera
Song to the Moon – Dvořák’s Rusalka
Prince’s Aria - Dvořák’s Rusalka – Final Duet – Dvořák’s Rusalka
Come un bel dì di Maggio – Giordano’s Andrea Chénier
La mamma morta – Giordano’s Andrea Chénier
Vicino a te s’acqueta ... La nostra morte – Giordano’s Andrea Chénier
Sola, perduta, abbandonata – Puccini’s Manon Lescaut
Mamma, quel vino è generoso – Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana
Szumią jodły na gór szczycie – Moniuszko’s Halka
Somewhere – Bernstein’s
West Side Story
Sondra Dee Radvanovsky is an American-Canadian soprano.
Specializing in 19th-century Italian opera, Radvanovsky has been called one of the leading Verdi sopranos of her generation.
Her signature roles include Elvira in Ernani, Leonora in Il trovatore,Elena in I vespri siciliani and the title role in Norma.
Piotr Beczała is a Polish operatic tenor.
Beczała’s La Scala debut came in January 2006 as the Duke in Rigoletto, the role in which he also made his Metropolitan Opera, New York, debut on December 19, 2006.
In 2007 Beczała was awarded the Munich Opera Festival Prize.
Tickets, priced $20 (£15), are available on the Met’s metopera.org website. Performances will be available for on-demand viewing for 14 days following the live event.