MA's Free Guide to Free Streams, 6/22-6/29

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Monday, June 22

8 am ET: Wigmore Hall Lunchtime Concerts presents Iestyn Davies and Elizabeth Kenny. Part of a new series of livestreamed concerts to an empty Wigmore Hall. The celebrated countertenor presents a program with one of Europe’s leading lute players. Together they explore repertoire from the 16th to 19th centuries, including some of Kenny’s own lute arrangements of works by Henry Purcell. View here. LIVE

9 am ET: Vienna Staatsoper streams Mussorgsky’s Khovanshchina (performance of November 21, 2014). Conductor: Semyon Bychkov, director: Lev Dodin, with Ferruccio Furlanetto (Fürst Iwan Chowanski), Christopher Ventris (Fürst Andrei Chowanski), Herbert Lippert (Fürst Wasili Golizyn), Andrzej Dobber (Schaklowity), Elena Maximova (Marfa), Ain Anger (Dossifei). Sign up for free and view here.

12:30 pm ET: Vienna Staatsoper presents Staatsoper Ensemble Slavic Repertoire Concert. The scheduled opera will resume afterwards; concert is estimated to last 75 minutes. Sign up for free and view here. LIVE

2 pm ET: Elbphilharmonie Hamburg presents Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. Vasily Petrenko, conducts Rachmaninov’s Symphony No. 2 and Grieg’s Anitra’s Dance and In the Hall of the Mountain King from Peer Gynt Suite No. View here.

7:30 pm ET: Met Opera Streams presents Verdi’s La Traviata. Conducted by Nicola Luisotti; starring Sonya Yoncheva, Michael Fabiano, and Thomas Hampson. Transmitted live on March 11, 2017. View here and for 24 hours.

8 pm ET: Lincoln Center Dance Week presents New Date: Coppélia (1978). George Balanchine’s and Alexandra Danilova’s comic ballet for New York City Ballet, with music by Léo Delibes, centers on a mechanical girl with whom the hero falls in love. View here.

9 pm ET: Utah Opera presents Rachel Portman’s The Little Prince. (production from January 2019). Rachel Portman and Nicholas Wright’s The Little Prince is based on the book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and the opera was one of the most successful presentations in the company’s history. The cast features Jared Bybee as the Pilot and Nitai Fluchel, then an 11-year-old chorister attending 5th Grade at The Madeleine Choir School, as the Little Prince. Choristers from The Madeleine Choir School comprised the opera’s chorus. James Lowe conducted the Utah Symphony and Tara Faircloth directed. The streaming is free with donations welcome. View here and then on demand here until August 5.

10 pm ET: Chamber Music Northwest’s Virtual Summer Festival presents Opening Night with the Emerson, Guarneri and Calidore Quartets. Celebrate the Virtual Summer Festival opening night with three of the world’s finest string quartets performing Barber’s Adagio for Strings, Brahms’s Clarinet Quintet, and Mendelssohn’s Octet for Strings. View here.

Tuesday, June 23

8 am ET: Wigmore Hall Lunchtime Concerts presents Benjamin Baker and Timothy Ridout. New Zealand violinist Benjamin Baker studied at the Yehudi Menuhin School and Royal College of Music. Since winning 1st prize at the 2016 Young Concert Artists International Auditions in New York, he has been sought after as a chamber musician. His London-born violist partner, Timothy Ridout, is a BBC New Generation Artist and is equally in demand. Their program includes the 1897 Sarabande and 11 Variations on a Theme of Handel by Norwegian composer Johan Halvorsen. View here. LIVE

12 pm ET: Orchestra of St. Luke's presents Bach at Home. Program includes the Goldberg Variations arranged by Bernard Labadie (filmed in June 2019); pianist Pedja Mužijevic playing selections from the Bach Family Album (filmed in May 2020); OSL harpsichordist Robert Wolinsky performing The Musical Offering: Ricercar a 3 (filmed in June 2020); OSL cellist Myron Lutzke performing Cello Suite No. 2: Sarabande (filmed in May 2020); OSL and Paul Taylor Dance Company performing The Musical Offering: Andante from Trio Sonata (filmed in January 2019). View here.

12 pm ET: Vienna Staatsoper streams Olga Neuwirth’s Orlando (Performance of March 4, 2018). Conductor: Matthias Pintscher, director: Polly Graham, with Kate Lindsey, Anna Clementi, Eric Jurenas, Constance Hauman, Agneta Eichenholz, Leigh Melrose, Justin Vivian Bond. Sign up for free and view here.

1 pm ET: OperaVision presents Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Adapting Shakespeare’s classic comedy of confused identities, bewildered lovers and a startling metamorphosis in an entrancing orchestration of instrumental colors that breathes life into a magic wood setting the scene for a mysterious dream world. Conductor: Tito Muñoz, director: Ted Huffman, with James Hall (Oberon), Florie Valiquette (Titania), Thomas Atkins (Lysander), Matthew Durkan (Demetrius), Roxana Constantinescu (Hermia), Marie-Adeline Henry (Helena), Dominic Barberi (Bottom), Orchestre National Montpellier Occitanie. View here and on demand for six months.

1 pm ET: IDAGIO presents Thomas Hampson’s World of Song. Tune in with baritone Thomas Hampson and a special guest every Tuesday evening for insights into some of his favorite repertoire and recordings. View here and later on demand.

1 pm ET: Trinity Church Wall Street presents Comfort at One. Julian Wachner leads The Choir of Trinity Wall Street, Trinity Youth Chorus, Downtown Voices, NOVUS NY and 1B1 in a performance of Ginastera's Psalm 150 and Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. View here and on demand here.

2 pm ET: Live with Carnegie Hall presents Yannick Nézet-Séguin. The Metropolitan Opera Music Director is joined by special guests sopranos Angel Blue, Renée Fleming, and Ailyn Pérez, Met Director of Music Administration Thomas Lausmann, and Chorus Master Donald Palumbo. Nézet-Séguin—only the third music director of the Met since its founding in 1883—discusses The MET Orchestra (as it’s known when it ventures outside the opera house) and its rich history on the concert stage. View here.

5 pm ET: Renée Fleming presents Music and Mind Live. The soprano and health advocate talks to scientists and practitioners working at the intersection of music, neuroscience, and healthcare, including a live Q&A from viewers. Episode 6: “How and Why to Engage with Music Now” features special guests Daniel J. Levitin, PhD, FRSC (Minerva Schools at KGI) and Victor Wooten, bassist. View on Fleming’s Facebook page and on demand on the Kennedy Center website.

6 pm ET: Art of the Piano presents Garrick Ohlsson. Program: Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 11 in B-flat, Op. 22 and Prokofiev’s Piano Sonata No. 6 in A, Op. 82. View here.

7:30 pm ET: Nightly Met Opera Streams presents Adams’s Doctor Atomic. Conducted by Alan Gilbert; starring Sasha Cooke, Thomas Glenn, Gerald Finley, Richard Paul Fink. Transmitted live on November 8, 2008. View here and for 24 hours.

9 pm ET: Living Music with Nadia Sirota: Pirate Radio Edition. Award-winning violist, broadcaster, and curator Nadia Sirota’s new music and talk show airs from her garage in Los Angeles with special guests performing from their homes. View here.

Wednesday, June 24

8 am ET: Wigmore Hall Lunchtime Concerts presents Guy Johnston and Melvyn Tan. The British duo’s program includes Schumann’s set of character pieces, intended for clarinet but with alternative options for viola or cello, and Chopin’s 1846 sonata, one of only nine works he wrote for instruments other than the piano. View here. LIVE

9 am ET: Vienna Staatsoper streams Bellini’s La Sonnambula (Performance of January 13, 2017). Conductor: Guillermo García Calvo, director: Marco Arturo Marelli, with Luca Pisaroni (Graf Rodolfo), Daniela Fally (Amina), Juan Diego Flórez (Elvino), Maria Nazarova (Lisa). Sign up for free and view here.

12 pm ET: Staatskapelle Dresden presents A Chinese Night. Xian Zhang conducts works by Rimsky-Korsakov, Rachmaninov, Horowitz and Prokofiev with Yuja Wang, piano, and Mengla Huang, violin. View here and available for 48 hours.

1:30 pm ET: The Kanneh-Mason Family. “The Von Trapps of Classical Music” (Telegraph UK) go live via cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason’s Facebook every Wednesday and Friday with a mixture of intimate family chamber performances and behind the scenes chat. Watch here.

2 pm ET: Czech Philharmonic presents Midsummer’s Eve Concert. Performing to an audience in excess of 500, this is the culmination of a series of concerts that the orchestra has presented since the beginning of lockdown which started with two players wearing masks and has built to an orchestra of 62 players. Held in the grounds of neo-gothic Sychrov Castle outside Prague, the performance will be conducted by Chief Conductor and Music Director Semyon Bychkov. The concert opens appropriately with Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream Overture and Scherzo followed by Haydn's Trumpet Concerto in E flat, and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 to close. View here. LIVE

2:15 pm ET: Concertgebouworkest presents Iván Fischer Masterclass. The Concertgebouworkest concludes the 2020–21 season with the Ammodo Conducting Masterclass, presided over by Iván Fischer. View here and on June 25 and 26. LIVE

3:30 pm ET: Ravenna Festival presents Handel’s Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno. Accademia Bizantina with Ottavio Dantone, harpsichord and conductor, Emmanuelle de Negri soprano (Pleasure), Monica Piccinini soprano (Beauty), Delphine Galou mezzo-soprano (Disillusionment), and Anicio Zorzi Giustiniani tenor (Time). View here.

6 pm ET: Art of the Piano presents Garrick Ohlsson. Program: Brahms’s Two Rhapsodies, Op. 79, Seven Fantasies, Op. 116, Chopin’s Mazurka in A minor, Op. 7, No. 2, Mazurka in C-sharp minor, Op. 50, No. 3, and Ballade No. 1 in G minor, Op. 23. View here.

7 pm ET: LA Opera presents Living Room Recital. A star on all of the world's great opera stages, soprano Ana María Martínez joins pianist Craig Terry for a program of captivating Spanish songs, as well as a performance of the famous “Song to the Moon from Rusalka (one of her signature roles). View here. LIVE

7:30 pm ET: Nightly Met Opera Streams presents Saint-Saëns Samson et Dalila. Conducted by Sir Mark Elder; starring Elina Garanca and Roberto Alagna. Transmitted live on October 20, 2018. View here and for 24 hours.

Thursday, June 25

7 am ET: Vienna Staatsoper streams Excerpts from Nureyev Galas. Program TBA. Sign up for free and view here.

8 am ET: Wigmore Hall Lunchtime Concerts presents Angela Hewitt. In the month when she would have performed the final concert of the multi-season Bach Odyssey, Hewitt presents a program including her own arrangement of a 1714 chorale. View here. LIVE

12:30 pm ET: Vienna Staatsoper presents Krassimira Stoyanova Recital. The scheduled ballet gala will resume afterwards; concert is estimated to last 75 minutes. Sign up for free and view here. LIVE

1 pm ET: IDAGIO presents Thursdays with Thomas. Join Thomas Hampson in conversation with colleagues, friends, and other major personalities of the classical music world. Every week, Thomas invites a special guest for a discussion around their favorite piece of the classical repertoire. View here and later on demand.

2 pm ET: Kölner Philharmonie presents Munich Philharmonic Orchestra. Valery Gergiev conducts Wagner’s Siegfried’s Funeral March from Götterdämmerung and Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5. View here.

2 pm ET: Live with Carnegie Hall presents Isabel Leonard. Since first gracing the Carnegie Hall stage in 2005 as a participant in Marilyn Horne’s master classes, New York City native Isabel Leonard has traveled the world as one of the most celebrated and multifaceted artists. Her varied repertoire ranges from operas by Vivaldi to Nico Muhly, from Spanish art songs to treasures from the American Songbook. Joined by soprano Janai Brugger and pianist Emanuel Ax, Leonard performs and discusses her many musical interests with Living the Classical Life’s Zsolt Bognár. View here.

6 pm ET: National Sawdust presents Adam Tendler. A 2019 recipient of the Lincoln Center Award for Emerging Artists, pianist Adam Tendler is a recognized interpreter of living and modern composers. A pioneer of DIY culture in classical music, between 2005 and 2006 Tendler performed in all 50 United States as part of a grassroots recital tour he called America 88x50, which became the subject of his memoir, 88x50. View here.

7 pm ET: Detroit Symphony Orchestra Summer Sessions Watch Parties presents Slatkin Salute. Leonard Slatkin kicks off the DSO weekly Summer Sessions Watch Parties, which feature fan-favorite repertoire from movies, ballet, Americana, and more. Slatkin leads the DSO in The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Ravel's Tzigane, and a pinch of John Williams—the perfect soundtrack for a long summer evening. View here and later on demand.

7:30 pm ET: Nightly Met Opera Streams presents Massenet’s Manon. Conducted by Maurizio Benini; starring Lisette Oropesa, Michael Fabiano, and Artur Rucinski. Transmitted live on October 26, 2019. View here and for 24 hours.

8 pm ET: Live From Lincoln Center presents Falsettos. William Finn and James Lapine's acclaimed musical radiates anew in this Lincoln Center Theater revival. Falsettos centers on the lives of an eclectic, modern family in a hilarious and poignant story of love in its many facets. The production, starring Christian Borle, Stephanie J. Block, and Andrew Rannells was filmed live at the Walter Kerr Theatre in January 2017. View here.

8 pm ET: The Philadelphia Orchestra presents Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 2. Originally performed in December 2011 conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. View here.

9 pm ET: Living Music with Nadia Sirota: Pirate Radio Edition. Nadia Sirota’s new-music and talk show airs from her garage in Los Angeles with special guests performing from their homes. View here.

9:30 pm ET: Colorado Music Festival presents Opening Night. Program: Bernstein’s Candide Overture, Schubert’s Quartettsatz in C Minor, D 703, Florence Price’s String Quartet No. 2 in A minor (Andante cantabile), Bartók’s String Quartet No. 2 (Allegro molto capriccioso), Beethoven’s String Quartet in C, Op. 59, No. 3 (Menuetto grazioso and Allegro molto). With the Colorado Music Festival Orchestra, Peter Oundjian, conductor, and the Takács Quartet (including the debut of new violist, Richard O'Neill). View here.

10 pm ET: Seattle Opera Songs of Summer presents John Moore. Since making his Seattle Opera debut as Almaviva in The Marriage of Figaro (2016), John Moore has been welcomed back in a variety of roles including Papageno (2017), Rossini’s Figaro (2017), and the title roles of The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs (2019) and Eugene Onegin (2020). His varied program will include an excerpt from Korngold’s Die Tote Stadt, art songs by Schubert and Matthew Aucoin, and a sentimental American standard by Sammy Fain. View here and on demand for two weeks.

10 pm ET: Chamber Music Northwest’s Virtual Summer Festival presents Schumann and Tchaikovsky. Opus One Piano Quartet (Ida Kavafian, Anne-Marie McDermott, Steven Tenenbom, and Peter Wiley) and former Chamber Music Northwest Protégé Ensemble the Rolston String Quartet perform masterworks by Schumann and Tchaikovsky. View here.

Friday, June 26

3 am ET: Carnegie Hall Live & Medici.TV present Philip Glass and the Philip Glass Ensemble. Program: Music with Changing Parts with Michael Riesman and students from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and San Francisco Girls Chorus (original broadcast date: February 16, 2018). View here and available for 72 hours.

8 am ET: Semperoper Dresden streams Wagner’s Lohengrin. Conductor Christian Thielemann, director: Christine Mielitz, with Piotr Beczala (Lohengrin), Anna Netrebko (Elsa), Tomasz Konieczny (Friedrich von Telramund), Evelyn Herlitzius (Ortrud), Georg Zeppenfeld (Heinrich), Derek Welton (Der Heerrufer des Königs). Recording of the production of the Semperoper Dresden in May 2016. View here until June 28.

8 am ET: Wigmore Hall Lunchtime Concerts presents Mark Padmore and Mitsuko Uchida. Part of a new series of livestreamed concerts to an empty Wigmore Hall. This acclaimed duo offers unique insights into Schubert’s great winter journey, with their performances of the cycle notable for their “sensitivity and subtly shaded emotion” (The Arts Desk). View here. LIVE

12 pm ET: Vienna Staatsoper streams Von Einem’s Dantons Tod (Performance of May 29, 2019). Conductor: Michael Boder, director: Josef Ernst Köpplinger with Tomasz Konieczny (George Danton), Benjamin Bruns (Camille Desmoulins), Michael Laurenz (Herault de Séchelles), Thomas Ebenstein (Robespierre), Olga Bezsmertna (Lucile). Sign up for free and view here.

1 pm ET: National Sawdust presents Masterclass: Jamie Barton. A vocal masterclass with the American mezzo. Increasingly recognized for how she uses her powerful instrument offstage—lifting up women, queer people, and other marginalized communities—her lively social media presence on Instagram and Twitter serves as a hub for conversations about body positivity, diet culture, social justice issues, and LGBTQ+ rights. View LIVE here.

1 pm ET: Staatsoper Unter den Linden presents Mendelssohn’s Octet. The performance will take place on the stage of the currently closed Staatsoper Unter den Linden. Mendelssohn’s Octet for Strings in E flat, Op. 20 will be played by members of the Staatskapelle Berlin. View here and on demand “for a few days.” LIVE

1 pm ET: LA Opera presents Coffee with Conlon. On the LA Opera at Home series Coffee with Conlon, Music Director James Conlon leads a discussion on all things opera over a fresh cup of joe. View here and as a bonus, viewers may submit questions for Mr. Conlon here. LIVE

1:30 pm ET: The Kanneh-Mason Family go live via cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason’s Facebook every Wednesday and Friday with a mixture of intimate family chamber performances and behind the scenes chat. Watch here. LIVE

2 pm ET: Royal Opera House presents Woolf Works. (Performance of The Royal Ballet from June 26, 2017). The Royal Ballet’s Olivier Award winning Woolf Works is choreographed by Resident Choreographer Wayne McGregor and takes inspiration from Virginia Woolf’s novels Mrs. Dalloway, Orlando, and The Waves as well as her letters, essays and diaries. The triptych of ballets is set to a commissioned score by Max Richter and stars Guest Artist Alessandra Ferri as Woolf. View here and until July 3.

2:15 ET: NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra presents Adès, Shostakovich and Beethoven. The Elbphilharmonie Orchestra performs in a Corona-reduced line-up. Alan Gilbert, chief conductor of the orchestra, is on the podium with Igor Levit the piano soloist. Program: Thomas Adès’s Chamber Symphony, Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No. 1, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 4. View here.

3 pm ET: WUOL Classical Louisville presents “In This Together.” Louisville Orchestra MD Teddy Abrams joins Daniel Gilliam as a regular co-host. Video streaming live on the station's Facebook page, the live radio show is “a weekly segment to help bring us closer together with music and conversation when we need to be apart.”

3 pm ET: Tulsa Opera presents Lucia Lucas. As part of its Staying Alive video series, and in celebration of Pride Month, Tulsa Opera presents baritone Lucia Lucas, whose appearance in the title role of the company’s 2019 Don Giovanni marked the first time a trans woman performed a principal role on the operatic stage in the United States. Additional performances in this video series appear on Monday and Wednesday. View here.

5:30 pm ET: San Francisco Ballet presents 2020 Opening Night Gala, Spellbound. The Gala celebrates Helgi Tomasson’s 35th year as artistic director and features the world premiere performance of Val Caniparoli’s Foreshadow, the SF Ballet premiere of the pas de deux from David Dawson’s Swan Lake (featuring Sofiane Sylve and Carlo Di Lanno), and the company premiere of Danielle Rowe’s For Pixie. Other highlights include Esteban Hernandez and Max Cauthorn in Bournonville’s Jockey Dance and Wona Park with Wei Wang in Victor Gsovsky’s Grand Pas Classique. Yuan Yuan Tan is also highlighted alongside Vitor Luiz in a pas de deux from Yuri Possokhov’s Bells. View here.

7:30 pm ET: Nightly Met Opera Streams presents Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’Amore. Conducted by James Levine; starring Kathleen Battle, Luciano Pavarotti, Juan Pons, and Enzo Dara. Transmitted live on November 16, 1991. View here and for 24 hours.

8 pm ET: University of Chicago presents Anthony McGill. The clarinetist performs a streaming concert with pianist Anna Polonsky from the Howland Cultural Center in Beacon, New York. The program will include music by Florence Price, Leonard Bernstein, Carlos Guastavino, and others. Before the concert, McGill will participate in a pre-concert talk with University of Chicago faculty. View here.

8:30 pm ET: Valhalla Media Live presents Will Liverman. The new streaming platform presents the American baritone and pianist Paul Sanchez. Program includes Leslie Adams’s Amazing Grace, Margaret Bonds’s Three Dream Portraits based on the poetry of Langston Hughes, Damien Snead’s I Dream a World, and Robert Owens’s Mortal Storm. The evening’s performance will conclude with the world premiere of composer Shawn Okpebholo’s new work Two Black Churches, a musical diptych of poems by Dudley Randall and Marcus Amaker, exploring the impact of two watershed moments in the American Civil Rights Movement—the Birmingham church bombing in 1963 and the Charleston church shooting in 2015. The performance comes from the Studebaker Theater in downtown Chicago, which is currently closed to patrons, with a “pay what you can” price structure (suggested price of $14.99). Register and view here. LIVE

10 pm ET: Seattle Opera presents The Drunken Tenor: Quarantini Edition! In the spirit of Victor Borge, P.D.Q. Bach, and Beverly Sills on The Muppet Show, Metropolitan Opera tenor Robert McPherson is joined by David McDade and soprano, Jennifer Bromagen for a performance that demystifies classical music. With far more confidence than technical skill, McPherson’s tipsy persona strives to find the humor in shared experiences of social distancing by poking fun at the pitfalls of virtual meeting spaces. Can he use technology to connect? Can he effectively create a program to uplift and inspire? Will he remember how to turn on his camera or mute his microphone when flushing? Program includes favorites by Bizet and Verdi, a little bit of Schubert. View here.

Saturday, June 27

6 am ET: Bayerische Staatsoper presents Puccini’s Manon Lescaut. (Production from November 15, 2014 at the Nationaltheater). Conductor: Alain Altinoglu, director: Hans Neuenfels, with Kristine Opolais (Manon Lescaut), Jonas Kaufmann (Des Grieux) and Markus Eiche (Lescaut), Bayerisches Staatsorchester and Chorus. View here.

9 am ET: Vienna Staatsoper streams Verdi’s Don Carlo (Performance of June 2, 2016). Conductor: Marco Armiliato, director: Daniele Abbado, with René Pape (Filippo II.), Rámon Vargas (Don Carlo), Ludovic Tézier (Rodrigo), Anja Harteros (Elisabetta), Béatrice Uria-Monzon (Eboli), Alexandru Moisiuc (Il Grande Inquisitore). Sign up for free and view here.

12 pm ET: Daniel Hope presents Hope@Home on Tour. As Germany relaxes its lockdown the award-winning violinist takes his popular livestreamed TV series on the road. This weekend, Hope heads to Berlin’s Monopol, an arts space housed in a former distillery, for performances combining classical, folk and independent music with live modern dance, including Dis-TANZ, a new piece created for today’s socially distanced times. On Sat, June 27, he and the dancers will be joined by Georgian classical pianist Dudana Mazmanishvili, and on Sun, June 28, by New Zealand singer-songwriter Teresa Bergman. View here.

12:30 pm ET: Vienna Staatsoper presents Young Ensemble Gala Concert. The scheduled opera will resume afterwards; concert is estimated to last 2 hours 15 minutes. Sign up for free and view here. LIVE

1 pm ET: San Francisco Opera presents Massenet’s Manon (Production from 2017). A co-production with Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre and the Israeli Opera, Manon features Ellie Dehn in the title role and Michael Fabiano as the Chevalier des Grieux. Stage direction and costume designs are by Vincent Boussard. Patrick Fournillier conducts, with David Pershall as Manon’s cousin Lescaut, James Creswell as Le Comte des Grieux, Robert Brubaker as Guillot, and Timothy Mix as De Brétigny. View here and until midnight (PT) the following day.

1 pm ET: Staatsoper Unter den Linden presents Elliott Carter. The performance will take place on the stage of the currently closed Staatsoper Unter den Linden. Solo pieces by Elliott Carter for various instruments with members of the Staatskapelle Berlin. View here and on demand “for a few days.” LIVE

2:30 pm ET: Royal Opera House presents Live from Covent Garden. This is the third live performance since the Royal Opera House closed its doors to the public on March 17. Hosted by Katie Derham and ROH Music Director, Antonio Pappano, singers from the Jette Parker Young Artists program will present work by Handel, Donizetti, Rossini, Verdi, Gershwin and more. In addition, First Soloists of The Royal Ballet Fumi Kaneko and Reece Clarke will perform the lyrical central pas de deux from Kenneth MacMillan’s Concerto while Principal Matthew Ball and First Soloist Mayara Magri will perform a pas de deux from Christopher Wheeldon’s Within the Golden Hour. Cost: £4.99. Sign up for Vimeo to view and further details here. LIVE

5 pm ET: Bright Shiny Things presents Room | To | Breathe. Broadcast live from the cell theater, “T Stands For…” is an exploration of the joy, struggle and liberation of the LGBTQ+ community. Featuring Grammy-winning cellist Andrew Yee of the Attacca Quartet, Metropolitan Opera mezzo-soprano Blythe Gaissert, Metropolitan Opera pianist Bénédicte Jourdois, performance artist John Kelly, baritone Michael Kelly, and double bassist Louis Levitt. Part of all proceeds will benefit The Black Trans Advocacy Coalition. Online access to the virtual concert is $25 per event or buy 5 get 1 free. More info here and the concert is repeated at 8 pm ET.

7 pm ET: Open Space presents Jen Shyu. Explore the new reality with Jen Shyu, multilingual vocalist-composer-multi-instrumentalist-dancer. “Songs of Our Distant Presence: Book 1” is new music to poems written by her Patreon patrons, her mother, and herself. She will also present songs of protest, from testimonies of both Chinese indentured laborers in Cuba who worked alongside African enslaved people in the 19th century and East Timorese women during their struggle for independence from Indonesia in 2002, to her own experience as an Asian American born and raised in a farm town in Illinois and her response to the now. Ms. Shyu sings, plays piano, Taiwanese moon lute, and a menagerie of other instruments. Tickets ($12) available here.

7:30 pm ET: Nightly Met Opera Streams presents Massenet’s Cendrillon. Conducted by Bertrand de Billy; starring Kathleen Kim, Joyce DiDonato, Alice Coote, and Stephanie Blythe. Transmitted live on April 28, 2018. View here and for 24 hours.

8 pm ET: The Philadelphia Orchestra presents Yannick Conducts Tchaikovsky. Originally performed in March 2019, Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Nico Muhly’s Register, Concerto for Organ and Orchestra with James McVinnie, organ and Tchaikovsky’s Manfred Symphony. View here.

8 pm ET: Chamber Music Society of Detroit presents Anthony McGill. Clarinetist Anthony McGill is one of classical music’s most recognizable and brilliantly multifaceted figures and is the New York Philharmonic’s first African-American principal player. He most recently appeared on the CMSDetroit series last season when he opened the 2019-2020 season with the Miro Quartet performing Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet. Program TBD. View here.

9 pm ET: Valhalla Media Live presents Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel. The new streaming platform presents a live concert version of the classic fairy-tale opera. Cast includes Emily Fons in the role of Hansel, Emily Pogorelc as Gretel, Allan as the Witch, Alexandra LoBianco as Mother Gertrude, Craig Irvin as Father Peter, Annie Rosen as the Sandman, and Jeni Houser as the Dew Fairy. The performance is led by Eric Weimer. The opera comes with a “pay what you can” price structure (suggested price of $14.99). Register and view here. LIVE

10 pm ET: Chamber Music Northwest’s Virtual Summer Festival presents Live from NY: Neubauer, Kavafian, Tenenbom, and Wiley. Internationally acclaimed violist Paul Neubauer and his virtuoso family will perform “live” from their Manhattan living room followed by violinist Ida Kavafian, violist Steven Tenenbom, and cellist Peter Wiley who will perform Mozart’s Divertimento from Ida and Steve’s home. View here. LIVE

Sunday, June 28

12 pm ET: Glyndebourne Open House presents Ravel Double Bill. Laurent Pelly’s unique interpretation of Ravel’s two short operas recorded in 2012 is a true spectacle. L’Heure Espagnole is a heat-soaked farce—youthful, sexy, ebullient—in which a lusty Spanish woman juggles lovers while her husband is preoccupied with clockwork mechanisms. L’Enfant et les Sortilèges is a touching morality tale in which fantastical fairy tale characters, animals, furniture and crockery all come to life to teach a small boy about kindness. Kazushi Ono conducts the London Philharmonic with Stéphanie d’Oustrac as the lusty Concepción and Khatouna Gadelia as Ravel’s petulant Child. View here.

12 pm ET: Daniel Hope presents Hope@Home on Tour. As Germany relaxes its lockdown the award-winning violinist takes his popular livestreamed TV series on the road. This weekend, Hope heads to Berlin’s Monopol, an arts space housed in a former distillery, for performances combining classical, folk and independent music with live modern dance, including Dis-TANZ, a new piece created for today’s socially distanced times. On Sat, June 27, he and the dancers will be joined by Georgian classical pianist Dudana Mazmanishvili, and on Sun, June 28, by New Zealand singer-songwriter Teresa Bergman. View here.

1 pm ET: OperaVision presents Martin’s Le Vin Herbé. Sweet compassion instead of ecstatic love: Frank Martin’s Le Vin Herbé offers a new interpretation of the tale of Tristan and Iseult, which goes beyond the usual Wagnerian pathos. Tom Randle and Caitlin Hulcup embody the fatal lovers in this production by Welsh National Opera. Conductor James Southall, director Polly Graham. Martin’s gorgeous music is well worth investigating—a real rarity. View here. **

2 pm ET: The Academy of St Martin in the Fields presents its 60th Anniversary Gala. The concert, which took place at Queen Elizabeth Hall on November 12, 2019, began the orchestra’s celebration of their diamond birthday. Led from the violin by Music Director Joshua Bell, the program includes Mozart’s Symphony No. 25, Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in E minor, and the online premiere of Composer-in-Residence Sally Beamish’s Hover, which is dedicated to the memory of Sir Neville Marriner. Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony concludes the program. View here and for two weeks.

2 pm ET: Israel Philharmonic presents IPO Global Gala. Join Dame Helen Mirren, Lahav Shani, soloists, and conductors for a Global Gala, featuring Zubin Mehta, Pinchas Zukerman and Amanda Forsyth, Itzhak Perlman, Yefim Bronfman, Sir András Schiff, Gil and Adèle Shaham, Gianandrea Noseda, Chen Reiss, Martin Fröst, and Evgeny Kissin. Access to the IPO Global Gala is free and will be streamed on the Medici TV website. Sign up here to ensure you receive an email when the concert link becomes available.

3 pm ET: Des Moines Metro Opera presents Massenet’s Manon. Recorded on July 5, 2016. The opera tells the story of the impulsive Manon, who falls in love with the young Chevalier des Grieux but also longs for the life of luxury and excitement offered by the rich nobleman de Brétigny. In this Upper Midwest Emmy-winning, broadcast soprano Sydney Mancasola and tenor Joseph Dennis star, with baritones Michael Adams and Troy Cook as Lescaut and de Brétigny, respectively. David Neely conducts, and the production is directed by Kristine McIntyre. View here and on demand through August 12.

3:30 pm ET: Ravenna Festival presents Luigi Cherubini Youth Orchestra. Valery Gergiev conductor, with Beatrice Rana piano. Program: Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3, Op. 37 and Symphony No. 6, Op. 68 Pastoral. View here.

5 pm ET: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center presents Front Row: Arnold Sussmann. Enjoy an HD concert experience featuring violinist Arnaud Sussmann, plus see inside his life during the pandemic and attend a live Q&A session. Program: Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G, Chausson’s Concerto in D for Violin, Piano, and String Quartet, Op. 21 (with Wu Han, piano, Kristin Lee, Yura Lee, violins, Richard O’Neill, viola, and Nicholas Canellakis, cello). View here.

6 pm ET: The Shed presents Up Close #6: Call. Artists Justin Allen, Yulan Grant, and S*an D. Henry-Smith create an improvised collaborative soundscape via the video conferencing platform Zoom. The artists manipulate the constraints of the technology to create a shared sonic, musical, and visual experience. As each joins the call from a different location, the trio layers sound with rhythms using instruments, electronic production technology, nearby household items, and their own voices. Tickets are free and can be reserved here. Zoom meeting information will be provided in a follow-up email on the day of the event.

6 pm ET: Lincoln Center presents Memorial for Us All with The Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra. While many rituals we hold dear are no longer possible, Memorial for Us All is an interfaith collaboration offering unity, comfort, and healing through music, an art form intertwined with so many of our most beloved rituals around the world. Anyone who has lost a loved one during this pandemic is invited to submit the name of a friend or family member to be honored here. Following last Sunday’s broadcast with Brian Stokes Mitchell, many community members from New York City and beyond have submitted names of loved ones lost to be honored this Sunday. View here.

6 pm ET: LA Opera presents Great Opera Choruses. Grant Gershon, the company’s resident conductor, leads the family friendly concert, spotlighting three famous choruses from popular works. The grand finale, the Anvil Chorus from Verdi's Il Trovatore, will feature audience participation—viewers of any (or no) musical ability can sing along at home, with lyrics provided onscreen, and kids will love the opportunity to hammer on kitchen pots and pans for the perfect sound effects. View here.

7 pm ET: Long Beach Opera Community Conversation: Till the Fat Lady Sings (Opera and Body Image). With Tracy Cox, Dr. Derrell Acon, Kyle Albertson, Frederick Ballentine, Joanna Ceja. View here.

7 pm ET: Open Space presents Jen Shyu. Explore the new reality with Jen Shyu, multilingual vocalist-composer-multi-instrumentalist-dancer. “Songs of Our Distant Presence: Book 1” is new music to poems written by her Patreon patrons, her mother, and herself. She will also present songs of protest, from testimonies of both Chinese indentured laborers in Cuba who worked alongside African enslaved people in the 19th century and East Timorese women during their struggle for independence from Indonesia in 2002, to her own experience as an Asian American born and raised in a farm town in Illinois and her response to the now. Ms. Shyu sings, plays piano, Taiwanese moon lute, and a menagerie of other instruments. Tickets ($12) available here.

7 pm ET: Lawrence Brownlee presents The Sitdown with LB. In the fourth of his new Facebook live series the tenor will be discussing the unique realities and experiences of being an opera singer of African-American or African descent with mezzo-soprano J'Nai Bridges. View here.

7:30 pm ET: Nightly Met Opera Streams presents Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte. Conducted by James Levine; starring Golda Schultz, Kathryn Lewek, Charles Castronovo, Markus Werba, Christian Van Horn, and René Pape. Transmitted live on October 14, 2017. View here and for 24 hours.

Monday, June 29

12 pm ET: Vienna Staatsoper streams Verdi’s Rigoletto (Performance of January 28, 2016). Conductor: Evelino Pidò, director: Pierre Audi, with Juan Diego Flórez (Der Herzog von Mantua), Carlos Álvarez (Rigoletto), Olga Peretyatko (Gilda), Ain Anger (Sparafucile), Nadia Krasteva (Maddalena). Sign up for free and view here.

1 pm ET: The Greene Space presents Note-able Women: A Celebration of Women Composers. Watch an encore video stream of WQXR’s concert featuring all women composers, recorded in March 2020 in celebration of International Women’s Day. Performances by pianist Olga Kern; tenor Nick Phan singing the works of French composers Nadia and Lili Boulanger; singer Lucy Dhegrae; and the Vuillaume Trio performing a piano trio by Amy Beach. Hosted by WQXR’s Annie Bergen. View here.

2 pm ET: Philharmonie Luxembourg presents Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg. Gustavo Gimeno conducts Bruckner’s Symphony No. 4. View here.

7:30 pm ET: Met Opera Streams presents Donizetti’s La Fille du Régiment. Conducted by Enrique Mazzola; starring Pretty Yende, Stephanie Blythe, Kathleen Turner, Javier Camarena, and Maurizio Muraro. Transmitted live on March 2, 2019. View here and for 24 hours.

10 pm ET: Chamber Music Northwest’s Virtual Summer Festival presents Chamber Stories: The Carnival of the Animals & More. Be transported by music that tells a story, from the classic Saint-Saëns Carnival of the Animals with narration by pianist Orion Weiss to contemporary works Portraits of Langston by Valerie Coleman and Bruce Adolphe’s urban fairy tale Marita and Her Heart’s Desire. View here.

Artists and Organizations Offering Free Content

The following are all accessible during the coronavirus pandemic:

Academy of Ancient Music
The most listened-to period instrument ensemble, directed by Richard Egarr, is making weekly streams available on its website. Guest artists include Louise Alder, soprano, Nicola Benedetti, violin, Mary Bevan, soprano, David Blackadder, trumpet, Iestyn Davies, countertenor, Tim Mead, countertenor, Christopher Purvis, bass, and Tenebrae, directed by Nigel Short. Explore here.

Aix Festival
The Festival d’Aix-en-Provence is offering the opportunity to watch or re-watch full performances of Festival d’Aix-en-Provence operas online and for free. Offerings include: Puccini's Tosca, staged by Christophe Honoré (2019), Mozart's Requiem, staged by Romeo Castellucci (2019) **, Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos, staged by Katie Mitchell (2018), Stravinsky's The Rake’s Progress, staged by Simon McBurney (2017) **, Mozart's Don Giovanni, staged by Jean-François Sivadier (2017). Many of these are rightly acclaimed. To view, click here.

American Composer’s Orchestra
ACO announces Volume 2 of Connecting ACO Community, an initiative to commission short works for solo instrument or voice. Each composer is offered $500 to write the work, and each performer is offered $500 to perform the work, with the rights to stream for six months. With the six commissions in Volume 2 (June 7 - July 19, 2020), ACO aims to support artists financially and to create new work that will live beyond this crisis. Premieres of the new works take place live on Sundays at 5pm ET, streaming privately for ticket-buyers on ACO's YouTube channel. The composer, performer, and a host (ACO President Ed Yim or ACO Artistic Director Derek Bermel) will hold an online chat with the attendees after the performance. The recorded sessions will be available on MUSIC on the REBOUND. For more info and to purchase $5 tickets visit here.

American Opera Project
American Opera Project presents AOPTV: Opera Comes Home. Three world premiere English-language opera productions are available for livestream on the AOP website. As One is a chamber opera by composer Laura Kaminsky, librettist Mark Campbell and librettist/filmmaker Kimberly Reed in which two voices—Hannah after (mezzo-soprano) and Hannah before (baritone)—trace a transgender protagonist from her youth in a small town to her college years on the West Coast, and finally to Norway where she is surprised at what she learns about herself. Three Way, with music by Robert Paterson and libretto by David Cote, is an opera on the present and future of sex and love comprised of three, playful one-acts. Harriet Tubman, with music and libretto by Nkeiru Okoye, is a two-act theatrical work that tells of how a young girl born in slavery becomes Harriet Tubman, the legendary Underground Railroad conductor.

American Pianists Association
To keep the music alive while they prepare for the 2021 American Pianists Awards, APA is revisiting the last two classical competitions. For two months, it will be uploading performances to its YouTube Channel from the 2013 and 2017 Awards competitions. Performances by Sean Chen and Claire Huangci are already posted, and new videos will be added daily until late May.

American Symphony Orchestra
American Symphony Orchestra presents ASO Online. Each Wednesday, for as long as live performances are not possible, the ASO will release a recording from its archives. Content will alternate weekly between live video recordings of SummerScape operas and audio recordings from previous ASO concerts. Strauss Die Liebe aus Danae, conducted by Leon Botstein from 2011, is highly recommended and available now. **

Apollo’s Fire: Music for the Soul
The Cleveland-based baroque orchestra founded by Artistic Director Jeannette Sorrell is offering a series of video streams entitled “Music for the Soul.” New episodes are posted here.

Australian Chamber Orchestra
ACO HomeCasts is an innovative digital content season curated by Artistic Director Richard Tognetti, and with an emphasis on content that reflects the ACO’s artistry, dynamism, and sense of adventure. ACO HomeCasts encompass a mix of hi- and lo-fi content presented across a range of channels. Musicians have been equipped with a mini in-home studio and training, enabling them to record, produce, and broadcast content directly from their homes. This includes full-length ACO concerts broadcast as Facebook Watch Parties hosted by an ACO musician, intimate solo performances filmed live from musicians’ homes, and “Ask-Me-Anything” Instagram interviews. Audiences can request specific performances and submit questions to musicians. Each week’s schedule is announced Monday mornings here.

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
BSO musicians are putting live-streamed concerts on the orchestra’s Facebook page on Wednesday and Sunday nights “for the near future.”

Bard SummerScape & Fisher Center
Each week Fisher Center is releasing new content, including commissions and performances from its archives. The streamed works highlight a different aspect of Bard’s wealth and breadth of programming, including performances from its SummerScape Opera and BMF archives. Recent additions to the program include Bard SummerScape’s 2011 production of Strauss’s rarely performed Die Liebe der Danae and last year’s Daniel Fish directed staging of Michael Gordon’s Acquanetta. More details here.

Bayerischen Staatsoper
Individual performances – such as Bluebeard’s Castle with John Lundgren and Nina Stemme, and Il Trovatore with Anja Harteros and Jonas Kaufmann – are available as live stream or as video-on-demand for 14 days. Monday Concerts will consist of Lied, solo instrumentalists, chamber music and dance including violinist Julia Fischer, soprano Hanna-Elisabeth Müller, baritone Christian Gerhaher, pianist Gerold Huber, tenor Jonas Kaufmann, baritone Michael Nagy and bass Tareq Nazmi. Visit here to view and for details.

Beth Morrison Projects
BMP announces the inaugural BMP: Producer Academy. Beginning the second week of July 2020 with free sessions for the community, BMP will delve into a number of different topics aimed at helping artists and young producers bring works to the stage. This free series of workshops will cover a variety of topics including budgeting, the different phases of the production process, different types of producers, and insights into the producing and presenting industry. Enrollment is open to the general public. Sign up here for the three-day course. Following the free workshop, a more in-depth eight-week Academy commences for a selected group of 25 students that have a deeper interest and are looking for an alternative to a full degree program in arts administration. Full details on the BMP website.

Boston Symphony Orchestra
The Boston Symphony presents “BSO at Home,” which includes self-produced videos from BSO musicians and conductors featuring anecdotes, personal reflections and insights, and short informal performances to be released periodically through the BSO’s social media channels. There will also be six weeks of daily curated audio offerings available each weekday morning at 10 a.m. through www.bso.org/athome. For a complete list click here.

Budapest Festival Orchestra Quarantine Soirées
Hungarian conductor Ivan Fischer has created a new concert series in response to the worldwide musical shutdown. The Quarantine Soirées are LIVE and free to view online chamber music concerts given nightly at 7:45 pm. Visit here for details of upcoming concerts.

Carnegie Hall
Live with Carnegie Hall is an online series designed to connect world-class artists with musical lovers everywhere, featuring live musical performances, storytelling, and conversations that offer deeper insights into great music and behind-the-scenes personal perspectives. In addition to live conversation and/performance, Live with Carnegie Hall programming will integrate historical or recent audio/video content drawn from concerts, master classes, and recordings. In most of the programs, artists will engage with viewers in real time via social media, building an inspired sense of community. The series will be streamed via Facebook and Instagram. A schedule will be found on carnegiehall.org/live.

The Cleveland Orchestra
The Cleveland Orchestra is offering free on-demand access to its Centennial Celebration conducted by Music Director Franz Welser-Möst and featuring Lang Lang in Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 24. The concert also features Richard Strauss’s Die Frau Ohne Schatten Symphonic Fantasy and Ravel’s La Valse. It also offers daily Mindful Music Moments videos, and videos from musicians performing from home. For information and to view visit here.

Cliburn at Home
The Cliburn has three new online initiatives. “Cliburn Watch Party” relives some of the best moments of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition twice a week. “Cliburn Kids”—on Mondays and Thursdays at 11am—explores rhythm, storytelling, dance, and listening games in short (seven- to 10-minute), entertaining, and educational journeys. “Cliburn Amateur Spotlight,” on Tuesdays, Fridays, and Sundays at 4 pm CDT, posts performance videos submitted by the 72 who were accepted as competitors for the 2020 Cliburn International Amateur Piano Competition (rescheduled to 2022). Visit Facebook, YouTube, Instagram or Cliburn.org.

Detroit Symphony Orchestra
The Detroit Symphony Orchestra has made its webcast archive available for free on its website. The collection features 200+ works going back three years, and highlights include Leonard Slatkin conducting John Luther Adams’s climate change-inspired Become Ocean from 2019, several world premieres, and a host of bite-sized encores.

Deutsche Grammophon Yellow Lounge
The German classical music giant is streaming Yellow Lounge broadcasts from its archives. Recent additions include clarinetist Andreas Ottensamer, pianists Alice Sara Ott and Chihiro Yamanaka, and cellist Mischa Maisky. Performances are broadcast in rotation, one video at a time, adding a new performance every few days. DG communicates the start of each new performance by newsletter at the start of each week. To keep updated sign up here.

Finnish National Opera
Finnish National Opera presents Stage24, a series of streamed archived performances on its website, which are then available for the next six months. Interesting recent content includes a staged version of Sibelius’s Kullervo, Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress, Caspar Holten’s staging of Wagner’s Der Fliegende Holländer with Camilla Nylund and Christoff Loy’s Tosca. An excellent company and some really interesting and original work worth investigating ** View here.

Gstaad Digital Festival
The Gstaad Festival has moved online this year with three digital offerings. First is Swiss pianist Francesco Piemontesi with a Soirée Schubert, including the first four Impromptus. With his unique timbre, he creates an intimate atmosphere and allows us to imagine how it must have been at a legendary Schubertiade. Second is Ute Lemper with an evening of Cabaret & Chanson including two poems by the Chilean poet and Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda, her charmingly silly version of Georges Moustaki's "Milord" and ending on Édith Piaf's "Non, je ne regrette rien". Finally, tenor Daniel Behle’s advice is "Make yourself rare, and people will appreciate you more." Behle gives exciting insights into the business, talks about the vital importance of having a good agency and finding the right moment to start singing Wagner.

Handel and Haydn Society
Boston’s Handel and Haydn Society has created the H+H Listening Room where you can hear and watch H+H performances including Mozart’s Requiem, Handel’s Messiah, and Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas filmed at New York’s Met Museum. There are also more than a dozen videos of musicians performing from their homes, a special video of principal flutist Emi Ferguson teaching people how to make their own baroque flute, and a new podcast called “Tuning In”. In the first episode Principal Cellist Guy Fishman interviews Artistic Director Harry Christophers about Bach's St. Matthew Passion. Explore here.

Duo Ingolfsson-Stoupel
Violinist Judith Ingolfsson and pianist Vladimir Stoupel are seasoned soloists who united with the goal of exploring new paths and directions in the intimate atmosphere of the violin-piano recital winning acclaim for their performances across the globe. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, they are presenting music that is close to their hearts every Friday and Tuesday at 1 pm EST on YouTube. LIVE

Kennedy Center Couch Concerts
The Kennedy Center is offering a free, live digital performance initiative, Couch Concerts, to help inspire, uplift, heal, and bring the performing arts into homes across the country and around the world during these difficult times. Couch Concerts stream direct from artists’ homes on the Kennedy Center website at 4 pm ET every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Audiences can discover a wide range of other at-home programming through the Kennedy Center at Home webpage.

La Monnaie
Belgium’s operatic powerhouse La Monnaie de Munt has launched free streaming of another virtual season of six operas from the archives. The new batch includes Romeo Castellucci’s controversial staging of The Magic Flute, Laurent Pelly’s gorgeously whacky production of Rimsky Korsakov’s The Golden Cockrel, and Olivier Py’s thoughtful take on Lohengrin. Details and access here on demand until June 30. **

La Scala/RAI
Italy’s RAI presents five productions from La Scala Milan including the world premiere of Kurtág’s Fin de Partie, Daniel Barenboim conducting Götterdämmerung, Lisette Oropesa in Verdi’s I Masnadieri, Montedervi’s Orfeo conducted by Rinaldo Alessandrini, and Les Vêpres Siciliennes conducted by Daniele Gatti. A wide range of concerts are also available. Click here to view and for further details.

Lincoln Center
Lincoln Center at Home enables families and communities to keep the arts front and center. From the archives of Lincoln Center’s resident organizations comes a trove of video, including rarely seen footage from decades of Live from Lincoln Center, more recent performances from across campus, and live streams from wherever performances are still happening. In addition, Lincoln Center Pop-Up Classroom broadcasts on Facebook Live every weekday at 10 am ET. Led by some of the world’s best artists and educators, each creative learning activity utilizes simple materials found at home to help families with children explore a variety of art forms. Each classroom will remain available on Facebook after the live broadcast. Finally, #ConcertsForKids teams up with top artists to bring world-class performances and diverse musical perspectives from their homes to yours. Check web calendar for latest digital offerings.

Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra
Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra presents free LACO AT HOME streaming and on demand performances, including a full showing of the orchestra’s critically acclaimed performance last fall featuring the West Coast premiere of Dark with Excessive Bright for double bass and strings by LACO Artist-in-Residence Missy Mazzoli. Available on demand here with more being added weekly.

Los Angeles Master Chorale
“Offstage with the Los Angeles Master Chorale” is a weekly series airing at 5 pm (PT). The series will feature interviews conducted by Artistic Director Grant Gershon and Associate Conductor Jenny Wong with notable performers as well as Master Chorale singers. Before each interview, viewers will be able to submit questions via social media; recordings of each session available here. Special guests include newly appointed Artist-in-Residence Reena Esmail, Morten Lauridsen, Anna Schubert, Peter Sellars, Derrick Spiva, and more.

Metropolitan Opera Free Student Streams
Students and teachers worldwide can draw from the Met’s online library of operas and curricular materials plus new live virtual conversations with Met artists and educators from the company’s national education program. Resource materials will be made available weekly via the Met website starting on Mondays at 10 am ET, including extensive background information; activities to help students engage before, during, and after the performance stream; illustrated synopses; coloring pages; and audio clips. On Wednesdays at 5 pm ET, each week’s performance will be made available for streaming on the Met website, where it will remain for 48 hours. An hour before each performance stream, students from around the world will have the opportunity to interact directly with a singer or member of the creative team on Zoom. Upcoming streams include Massenet’s Cendrillon, Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’Amore, Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel, Bizet’s Carmen and Puccini’s Madama Butterfly. More information here.

Minnesota Orchestra
Minnesota Orchestra at Home shares video, audio, and educational materials through the categories of Watch, Listen and Learn, including videos from the orchestra’s archives and newly created “mini-concerts” directly from the homes of Orchestra musicians. Explore and view here.

National Forum of Music, Wroclaw, Poland
Poland’s national music forum has made recordings available on its YouTube Channel from a range of NFM ensembles: NFM Wroclaw Philharmonic, NFM Leopoldinum Orchestra, Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra, NFM Choir, Wroclaw Baroque Ensemble, led by their Artistic Directors:  Giancarlo Guerrero, Joseph Swensen, Jaroslaw Thiel, Agnieszka Franków-Zelazny, Andrzej Kosendiak and others. Explore here.

National Sawdust
National Sawdust has launched Live@NationalSawdust, a free digital platform offering concerts from the past five seasons and professional development programs from Renée Fleming, Meredith Monk and others, and including fundraising efforts for National Sawdust and the artists involved. Initial releases will focus on the very first concert in the venue from October 2015, including performances by Philip Glass, Foday Musa Suso, Tanya Tagaq, Chris Thile, Nico Muhly, Nadia Sirota, Jeffrey Zeigler, Eve Gigliotti, Paola Prestini, Nels Cline, Glenn Kotche, Theo Bleckmann, ACME and more. Future releases will draw from an extensive digital archive of more than 1,200 live performances, including highlights like Terry Riley’s Archangels featuring the Choir of Trinity Wall Street, Du Yun’s Pan Asia Sounding Festival, and more.

The Next Festival of Emerging Artists 2020
This year’s Festival goes online with free events on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons from June 9 to July 2. The four-week series of workshops, mini-courses, and collaborative projects will feature over 20 guest artists and speakers, accessible online and open to the public. Student participants—young musicians, composers, and choreographers—have had their tuition waived and will take part in lessons and chamber music coaching, rehearsals, master classes, and talks, culminating in performances and recordings of new works. This year’s festival will culminate in performances of new works created by remote collaboration. The festival will also be responding to the incidents of violence and racism that are causing pain and division across the country. Participants include: Ashley Bathgate, Derek Bermel, Fred Child, Anthony Davis, Rob Deemer, Vijay Iyer, Wang Jie, JACK Quartet, Aaron Jay Kernis, Anne Leilehua Lanzilotti, Jessica Meyer, Joshua Roman, and S. Ama Wray. Open to the public (through Eventbrite registration). More info here.

New World Symphony
The New World Symphony presents a web-based series called NWS Archive+. Michael Tilson Thomas moderates discussions with NWS Fellows, alumni, guest artists, and visiting faculty about archived recordings. Performances will be available here. NWS Fellows also play live, informal chamber music concerts from their homes in Miami Beach and broadcast via Facebook Live. In addition, the NWS online archive contains master classes, tutorials and town halls, which  can be found here. Finally, for the past 10 years, the Fellows have performed one-hour concerts for local school children. These concerts and preparatory material will be available free to students and parents. NWS Educational concerts can be found here.

Olyrix
French opera streaming site Olyrix is making its content free throughout the COVID-19 crisis. Not all content is watchable in the U.S., but there are many fascinating productions and concerts from top-notch opera companies, from Cavalli’s Ercole Amante from Paris’s Opéra Comique and Purcell’s The Indian Queen from Opéra de Lille to Korngold’s Violanta from Teatro Reggio Torino. A really well-curated collection. ** Explore here.

Onsite Opera
The New York opera company, which specializes in site-specific and immersive productions, have made five filmed productions available through the company’s website and Facebook page. Operas include Rhoda and the Fossil Hunt staged at the American Museum of Natural History, Rameau’s Pygmalion staged at the Lifestyle-Trimco mannequin showroom, Mozart’s The Secret Gardener staged at the Westside Community Garden, and Murasaki’s Moon filmed at the Metropolitan Museum.

Opera Australia
OA | TV: Opera Australia on Demand is the Sydney-based company’s new digital space. Alongside the world’s largest collection of Dame Joan Sutherland on video, OA will offer exclusive content from the OA back catalogue, productions from Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour, and a new series of chat show-style interviews conducted by AD Lyddon Terracini. The first posted full show is Sutherland in The Merry Widow, and the fileted aria’s in the section labelled “The Best of Dame Joan Sutherland” are even better. ** View here.

Opéra National de Paris
The Palais Garnier and Bastille Opera are making their digital stage, “The 3e Scène,” free and available to all. Founded in 2015, the platform is a pure place of artistic adventure and exploration, giving free rein to photographers, filmmakers, writers, illustrators, visual artists, composers, and choreographers to create original works. Visit here. Some of Opéra National de Paris’s productions are accessible on the company’s Facebook Page. In addition, Octave, the Paris Opera’s online magazine, is posting articles, videos, and interviews here.

Opera North
One of Britain’s most respected smaller opera companies, Opera North has put its acclaimed semi-staged concerts of Wagner’s epic Ring Cycle online. “Beg, borrow, or be like Wotan and steal a ticket for this show,” said the UK’s Times of Das Rheingold. “You’d be lucky to hear as good at Bayreuth,” said The Telegraph of Die Walküre. Richard Farnes proves a seriously impressive Wagner conductor. Watch here.

Opera Saratoga: Connect Daily
In place of its planned 2020 Summer Festival, Opera Saratoga features performances by Festival Artists, premiering every morning at 9 am ET. Each month is dedicated to a different theme with June featuring daily arias and ensembles from the operettas of Gilbert and Sullivan, including excerpts from The Pirates of Penzance, which had been scheduled to open the 2020 Festival. July will feature Beethoven art song including many of his settings of folk melodies from around the world and scenes Fidelio. August will feature songs and ensembles from musicals by Stephen Sondheim, who celebrated his 90th birthday this year. View here and on demand.

OperaVision
OperaVision offers livestreams of operas available for free and online for six months. Previous offerings include Don Giovanni from Finnish National Opera, Barrie Kosky’s Moses und Aron, and David McVicar’s superb Die Entführung aus dem Serail from Glyndebourne **. Next up is a fascinating season of Benjamin Britten. View past content here.

The Philadelphia Orchestra
Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin and The Philadelphia Orchestra are offering new ways to engage with the music and musicians of the Orchestra. Through WATCH, LISTEN, LEARN the Virtual Philadelphia Orchestra will fulfill its ongoing commitment to bring music, in video and audio forms, as well as interactive education and enrichment, to audiences. Content is available here.

Pierre Boulez Saal
The Pierre Boulez Saal is making an ongoing list of recordings available for a limited time. Highlights include Barenboim and the Boulez Ensemble playing Schubert, Berg, Widmann, and Boulez, lectures and concerts led by Jörg Widmann, and a Beethoven cycle with the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra conducted by Barenboim. Explore here.

NEW: Pacific Region International Summer Music Association
At 10 pm ET weekdays from June 15 to 26, PRISMA will broadcast a nightly variety hour featuring pre-recorded orchestral and chamber music performances, engaging interviews, educational content, historical highlights, behind-the-scenes access, as well as brand new studio segments and solo performances recorded from a safe social distance. Hosted by maestro Arthur Arnold and PRISMA staff, this livestream series fills the two-week spot PRISMA's annual festival and music academy would have occupied. There will be interviews with alumni, guest artists, and special guests, as well as dozens of never-before-seen recordings of past concerts. Guest artists have offered ‘virtual’ master classes and mentorship sessions with this year’s accepted students. More details here and view here.

San Francisco Symphony
The San Francisco Symphony launches MTT25: An Online Tribute—a special 25-day digital tribute in honor of Michael Tilson Thomas’ (MTT) extraordinary 25-year tenure as Music Director. From June 4 through 28, the SFO will release original and archival content daily, highlighting achievements, milestones, artistic projects, and relationships illustrative of MTT and the Orchestra’s dynamic 25-year partnership. Each day will be anchored by a specific season in MTT’s tenure—beginning with the inaugural 1995–96 season—which will be showcased with a unique, evolving, and exciting mix of visuals and storytelling. View here.

Seattle Symphony
Seattle Symphony is rebroadcasting concerts on Thursday and Saturday evenings. In addition, Morning Notes on YouTube or Facebook features solo performances by individual musicians.

The Sixteen
The Sixteen, with founder Harry Christophers, has launched Quarantine with The Sixteen, a regular schedule of digital content. The Sixteen Virtual Choir’s performance of Sheppard’s Libera nos involved each part being recorded at each singer’ home. Other features include: Choral Chihuahua, a podcast by The Sixteen and I Fagiolini; Stay at Home Choir performing Sir James MacMillan’s O Radiant Dawn; Harry Christophers introducing 20 years of The Choral Pilgrimage; Archive performances, including Sir James MacMillan’s Stabat mater performed in the Sistine Chapel and Bach’s St Matthew Passion with Streetwise Opera; Recipes for isolation; Video diaries providing insight into daily lives during lockdown; Weekly playlists. Explore here.

Trinity Wall Street
New York’s Trinity Church Wall Street introduces daily weekday “Comfort at One” (1 pm ET) streaming performances on Facebook with full videos posted here. Tune in for encore performances of favorite Trinity concerts, professionally filmed in HD, along with current at-home performances from Trinity’s extended artistic family. “During trying times, music stills our souls and provides a healing grace,” writes Trinity. “We hope these performances help you find a daily haven of peace and comfort.”

Tulsa Opera
In light of the coronavirus outbreak, Tulsa Opera launched its Staying Alive web series, which includes virtual performances of opera, popular music, and musical theater, directly from guest artists’ homes. Each week, the series features artists from around the world, including artists that have been recently heard on the Tulsa Opera stage or would have been heard in the company’s new production of Tobias Picker’s Emmeline, cancelled due to the pandemic. New content appears every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 2 pm CT. Explore here.

Verbier Festival
The cancelled Verbier Festival is presenting QuarantineConcerts, a platform where artists can perform live in the comfort of their homes as a way to keep the Festival alive. The concerts are streaming on their website but also on quarantineconcerts.tv. Archived performances include Quatuor Ebène, Gautier Capuçon, and Matthias Goerne, but Academy Artists will also stream LIVE.

Voices of Ascension
New York choir Voices of Ascension, which celebrates its 30th anniversary next season, is posting a daily offering of choral beauty on its website. Music is chosen by staff, members of the chorus and orchestra, and listeners. View here.

Warsaw Philharmonic
The Warsaw Philharmonic has made a selection of video recordings available on its YouTube channel. Recent offerings include Saint-Saëns’s Organ Symphony and Arvo Pärt’s Swansong conducted by Artistic Director Andrzej Boreyko, as well as rarities by Polish composers like Grazyna Bacewicz. It’s an excellent orchestra very much in the Eastern European tradition and concerts have been master edited for posting online.

Paid Digital Arts Services

Berlin Philharmonic Digital Concert Hall
The BPO Digital Concert Hall contains over 600 orchestra concerts covering more than ten years, including 15 concerts with the orchestra’s new Chief Conductor Kirill Petrenko, interviews, backstage footage.

Medici TV
Thousands of classical music videos are available by subscription, as well as hundreds of events that are broadcast live for free each year, available for 90 days. Subscriptions cost $83.85 per year. www.medici.tv

Archived Recent Performances

The following broadcast events have occurred since the start of the COVID-19 crisis and are still available for viewing:

March 12
The Philadelphia Orchestra and Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin performed BeethovenNOW: Symphonies 5 & 6 as well as Iman Habibi’s Jeder Baum Spricht to an empty Verizon Hall for live broadcast. An outstanding concert captured in excellent visuals and sound. www.philorch.org/live

Miller Theater’s Bach Collection was performed live for a virtual audience. The program included Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring (arr. Hess), Concerto for Violin and Oboe in C minor, BWV 1060 (arr. Fischer), Chorale Prelude Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV 639 (arr. Busoni), and Cantata Ich habe genug, BWV 82, with Kady Evanyshyn, mezzo-soprano, Rebecca Fischer, violin, Alecia Lawyer, oboe, Simone Dinnerstein, piano, Baroklyn. View here.

March 14
Canadian pianist Garrick Ohlsson played an impressive selection of works by Beethoven, Prokofiev (the Sixth Sonata), and Chopin to an empty house at New York’s 92nd Street Y. View here.

March 16
In front of an empty auditorium (very visible thanks to excellent camerawork) Melbourne Symphony Orchestra was conducted by Forth Worth Symphony Music Director Miguel Harth Bedoya in dynamic performances of Bloch's Schelomo with soloist Timo-Veikko Valve, and Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade. Available here.

March 22
Dorn Music presented the Kuss Quartett playing Beethoven’s String Quartet in F, Op.18 No. 1, String Quartet in F, Op. 135 and String Quartet in A minor, Op. 132 Movement No. 3 Heiliger Dankgesang eines Genesenen an die Gottheit, in der lydischen Tonart for the benefit of freelance musicians in Lower Saxony and across the world. The Live Broadcast from Hannover is available here. Donate here.

March 26
92nd St. Y presents Jonathan Biss playing Beethoven’s last three piano sonatas. Written, as Beethoven said, “in a single breath,” these pieces represent the apotheosis of his piano writing, showing his mastery of the variation form (in Op. 109), his expertise in the forms of the musical past (the fugue, in Op. 110), and an ability to be cutting-edge (considering Op. 111 as a whole, but especially the famous "‘boogie woogie" moments in the second movement). Available here.

April 5
Violinist Isabelle Faust live-streamed a solo Bach recital on from Leipzig’s Thomaskirche, the church where JS Bach was Kapellmeister from 1723 until 1750. The concert is on Arte.tv and free to view until July 4. Highly recommended **

April 10
Handel’s Messiah with The Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square and soloists Amanda Woodbury, Tamara Mumford, Tyler Nelson, and Tyler Simpson. Recorded in 2018 but archived for a rainy day such as this. Available here.

Bach's St. John Passion, performed by Bach Collegium Japan conducted by Masaaki Suzuki from the Cologne Philharmonic. View here.

April 14
92^nd St Y presents Marc-André Hamelin who streamed a characteristically elegant program from his home, with the timely inclusion of Liszt's Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude. The repertoire also included C. P. E. Bach, Enescu, Fauré, Scriabin, and six selections from Debussy's Preludes, Book II. View here.

May 8
The Berliner Philharmoniker’s European Concert. In order to comply with social distancing rules and hygiene requirements Kirill Petrenko conducts the orchestra in chamber music formation from the empty Philharmonie Berlin. Federal President Steinmeier to deliver opening address. Program: Pärt’s Fratres, Ligeti’s Ramifications, Barber’s Adagio for Strings, Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 (arrangement for chamber ensemble by Erwin Stein) with Christiane Karg, soprano. View in the Digital Concert Hall.

**Highly recommended

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