MA's Free Guide to Free Streams, 6/8-15, with Select European Concerts Live

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Monday, June 8

8 am ET: Wigmore Hall Lunchtime Concerts presents Steven Isserlis and Mishka Rushdie Momen. Part of a new series of livestreamed concerts to an empty Wigmore Hall. The acclaimed cellist celebrates Schumann’s birthday with a performance of the Three Romances Op. 94 in the company of Mishka Rushdie Momen, a pianist described by Richard Goode as having a “rare ability to communicate the essential meaning of whatever she plays.” Other works include music by Beethoven and Fauré. View here. LIVE

10 am ET: Vienna Staatsoper streams Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov (Performance of May 13, 2016). Conductor: Marko Letonja, with René Pape, Margaret Plummer, Aida Garifullina, Zoryana Kushpler, Norbert Ernst, David Pershall, Kurt Rydl, Marian Talaba, Ryan Speedo Green. Sign up for free and view here.

1 pm ET: The Greene Space presents Music Break: Revisit Joshua Bell and Jeremy Denk in Concert. Watch an encore video stream of this thrilling performance by the Grammy Award-winning violinist and the acclaimed pianist playing works by Brahms and Schumann. Hosted by WQXR’s Jeff Spurgeon. View here.

1 pm ET: IDAGIO Live presents Kirill Gerstein’s #ViewAcrossTheKeyboard. Gerstein explores the treasures of keyboard discography every Monday evening. View here and on demand.

1:30 pm ET: Vienna Staatsoper presents Günther Groissböck Recital. The scheduled opera will resume afterwards; concert is estimated to last 75 minutes. Sign up for free and view here. LIVE

7:30 pm ET: Met Opera Streams presents Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito. Conducted by Harry Bicket; starring Lucy Crowe, Barbara Frittoli, Elina Garanca, Kate Lindsey, and Giuseppe Filianoti. Transmitted live on December 1, 2012. View here and for 24 hours.

Tuesday, June 9

8 am ET: Wigmore Hall Lunchtime Concerts presents Hyeyoon Park and Benjamin Grosvenor. Part of a new series of livestreamed concerts to an empty Wigmore Hall. South Korean violinist Hyeyoon Park was the youngest ever winner of the ARD International Music Competition in Munich 2009. She is joined for this recital by the pianist Benjamin Grosvenor, described by The Independent as “one in a million...several million.” Program includes Szymanowski’s Myths Op. 30 and Franck’s Violin Sonata in A. View here. LIVE

10 am ET: Vienna Staatsoper streams Verdi’s Aida (Performance of March 28, 2015). Conductor: Philippe Auguin. Sondra Radvanovsky, Jorge de León, Ryan Speedo Green, Luciana D'Intino, Sorin Coliban, Franco Vassallo, Jinxu Xiahou, Olga Bezsmertna. Sign up for free and view here.

1 pm ET: OperaVision presents The Skating Rink. Garsington Opera’s staging of an opera by David Sawer and Rory Mullarkey, based on a novel by Roberto Bolaño. A local civil servant’s obsession with a beautiful figure skater drives him to embezzle funds to build her a secret ice rink. When an unlikely group of characters discovers them, tension mounts until a murder on the ice unravels everything. With Grant Doyle, Ben Edquist, Sam Furness, Susan Bickley, Lauren Zolezzi, Alice Poggio, Alan Oke, Louise Winter, Claire Wild, and Steven Beard. View here and for six months.

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

1:30 pm ET: Vienna Staatsoper presents Staatsoper Ensemble Mozart 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: Live with Carnegie Hall presents Emanuel Ax. The pianist returns with a program exploring the history of piano at Carnegie Hall. Guests for this episode with include pianists Paul Lewis and Garrick Ohlsson. View here.

5 pm ET: Renée Fleming presents Music and Mind Live. The soprano talks to scientists and practitioners working at the intersection of music, neuroscience, and healthcare, including a live Q&A with viewers. This episode: “Integrative Approach to COVID-19 and the Mind,” with Deepak Chopra, MD (The Chopra Foundation). View on Fleming’s Facebook page and on- demand on the Kennedy Center website.

7:30 pm ET: Nightly Met Opera Streams presents Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta & Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle. Conducted by Valery Gergiev; starring Anna Netrebko and Piotr Beczala in Iolanta, and Nadja Michael and Mikhail Petrenko in Bluebeard's Castle. Transmitted live on February 14, 2015. View here and for 24 hours.

8 pm ET: The Greene Space presents Ted Hearne & Saul Williams’s Place: A World Premiere. WNYC’s John Schaefer invites Pulitzer Prize-nominated composer Ted Hearne and poet Saul Williams for the livestream debut of a special performed-at-home version of Place, the pair’s “explosive, restless, fragment-laden score” (New York Times) that explores the impacts of gentrification. The performance will be followed by a live discussion about displacement, gentrification, and the housing crisis in the time of COVID-19, and will also feature Grammy-nominated flutist, composer, and vocalist Nathalie Joachim. View here.

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 10

8 am ET: Wigmore Hall Lunchtime Concerts presents Paul Lewis. Part of a new series of livestreamed concerts to an empty Wigmore Hall. English pianist Paul Lewis’s cycles by Beethoven and Schubert have received unanimous critical and public acclaim, and today he performs works by both composers. Following the Schubert sonata, a piece whose first movement the publisher Haslinger dubbed “Fantasie,” is one of Beethoven’s best known of all in the Sonata quasi una fantasia, Op. 27 No. 2 (1801), Moonlight. View here. LIVE

10 am ET: Vienna Staatsoper streams Richard Strauss’s Josephs Legende / Verklungene Feste (performance of February 14, 2014). Conductor: Mikko Franck with Denys Cherevychko, Kirill Kourlaev, Rebecca Horner, Roman Lazik, Maria Yakovleva, Vladimir Shishov, Kiyoka Hashimoto, Masayu Kimoto, Robert Gabdullin, Nikisha Fogo, Oksana Kiyanenko, Natascha Mair, Liudmila Konovalova. Sign up for free and view here.

12 pm ET: Hanns Eisler Academy Berlin presents Kirill Gerstein in an online seminar with Hungarian musicologist Gergely Fazekas to talk about Kurtág’s operatic setting of Beckett’s Fin de partie. Part of a series of seminars—to date, Kirill has been joined by Andreas Staier, Nicolas Hodges, Paul Boghossian, Claudio Martínez Mehner ,and Brad Mehldau—this week he will be joined by Boston Symphony’s Tony Fogg. Register for the free Zoom seminar Kurtág here with further information here.

12 pm ET: IDAGIO presents Mahler Das Lied von der Erde. Iván Fischer, music director of the Budapest Festival Orchestra, walks us through the symphonies of Gustav Mahler. He shares his thoughts and feelings about each work, answering your questions and listening to his recording of these masterpieces. View here and on demand.

12 pm ET: Pop Up Pipa with Wu Man: Episode 10: Xuefei Yang. The gifted guitarist who is said to have been the first guitar major at Beijing’s Central Conservatory of Music” (The New York Times) joins Wu Man in Brahms’s classic “Lullaby” from the Op. 23 waltzes, paired with a piece in traditional Chinese style titled Spring Breeze. View here.

12 pm ET: Staatskapelle Dresden presents Christian Thielemann and Maurizio Pollini. Program includes Brahms’s Tragische Ouvertüre, Reger’s Romantische Suite, and Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1. View here and available for 48 hours.

1 pm ET: The Greene Space presents Music Break: Revisit WQXR’s Celebration of Pride. An encore video stream featuring performances by Anthony Roth Costanzo; members of the New York City Gay Men’s Chorus; pianist Sara Davis Buechner; cellist Hannah Collins; ChamberQUEER; and tenor Scott Murphree. Hosted by Nancy podcast’s Tobin Low. View here.

1 pm ET: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic presents Spring turning to Summer. Alan Gilbert conducts Copland’s Appalachian Spring and Schumann’s Symphony No. 1, Spring. In Sweden – where the government’s approach to Covid 19 has been different to nearly every other nation by not going into lockdown – the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic performs weekly on stage with up to 40 musicians at any one time. This is the RSPO’s last concert and livestream of this unusual spring season. View here. LIVE

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.

1:30 pm ET: Vienna Staatsoper presents Vienna Philharmonic Chamber Concert. The scheduled opera will resume afterwards; concert is estimated to last 75 minutes. Sign up for free and view here. LIVE

7:30 pm ET: Nightly Met Opera Streams presents Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel. Conducted by Vladimir Jurowski; starring Christine Schäfer, Alice Coote, Rosalind Plowright, Philip Langridge, and Alan Held. Transmitted live on January 1, 2008. View here and for 24 hours.

Thursday, June 11

8 am ET: Wigmore Hall Lunchtime Concerts presents Adam Walker and James Baillieu. Part of a new series of livestreamed concerts to an empty Wigmore Hall. Alongside Mozart and Janácek, the flute and piano duo presents more recent works such as a 1978 piece by Australian composer Anne Boyd and the dramatic miniature Masks by Oliver Knussen. View here. LIVE

10 am ET: Vienna Staatsoper streams Richard Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos (performance of November 29, 2017). Conductor Peter Schneider; director Sven-Eric Bechtolf, with Lise Davidsen (Primadonna/Ariadne), Stephen Gould (Der Tenor/Bacchus), Rachel Frenkel (Der Komponist), Erin Morley (Zerbinetta). Sign up for free and view here.

1:30 pm ET: Vienna Staatsoper presents Tomasz Konieczny Recital. The scheduled opera will resume afterwards; concert is estimated to last 75 minutes. Sign up for free and view here. LIVE

2 pm ET: Live with Carnegie Hall presents Rosanne Cash. As one of the country’s premier singer-songwriters, Rosanne Cash has given voice to the American spirit for decades. With a focus on protest music—past and present—and its ability to bring people together in times of crisis, Cash and her notable guests explore the importance of music as part of our shared cultural history. With Brandi Carlile, Gary Clark Jr., Marc Cohn, Ry Cooder, and Elvis Costello. View here.

2 pm ET: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic presents Sibelius’s Symphony No. 2. A co-presentation with European Concert Halls Organization, from the Gulbenkian Foundation Lisbon, played by Orquestra Gulbenkian under conductor Hannu Lintu. View here.

2:30 pm ET: London Symphony Orchestra presents 2019/20 Season Opening Concert. Program includes Emily Howard’s Antisphere, Colin Matthews’s Violin Concerto, Walton’s Symphony No. 1. With Sir Simon Rattle conductor, Leila Josefowicz violin, and the LSO. View here and later on demand.

6 pm ET: National Sawdust presents Lucy Dhegrae. A passionate singer with a flexible technique that fits a variety of styles, Dhegrae has been featured in the Mostly Mozart Festival and has performed at Lincoln Center and the Kennedy Center. She founded and directs the Resonant Bodies Festival, an international presenter of boundary-pushing contemporary music vocalists. Dhegrae will also be joined by pianist Nathaniel LaNasa. View here.

7 pm ET: Detroit Symphony Orchestra Watch Parties presents Back-to-Back Berlioz. Program: Leonard Slatkin conducts Berlioz’s Roman Carnival Overture and Harold in Italy. With an introduction from soloist and Principal Viola Eric Nowlin. View here and later on demand.

7:30 pm ET: Nightly Met Opera Streams presents Rossini’s L’Italiana in Algeri. Conducted by James Levine; starring Marilyn Horne, Douglas Ahlstedt, Allan Monk, and Paolo Montarsolo. Transmitted live on January 11, 1986. View here and for 24 hours.

8 pm ET: National Sawdust presents Three Archival Performances. Firstly, the spirits of revolutionary writers James Baldwin and Ta-Nehisi Coates are set to music in a recital of Jeanine Tesori and Tazewell Thompson's opera Blue, featuring select readings from Coates' era-defining work, Between the World and Me. Secondly, Flatbush rapper and creator LATASHÁ presents Women’s Truth, an intersectional performance piece that aims to “push the boundaries of the Femme Language.” And thirdly, acclaimed saxophonist and co-creator of the Kinds of Kings collective Shelley Washington breaks genre boundaries with her new compositions, including the guitar quartet Workers' Dreadnought. View here and on demand.

8 pm ET: The Philadelphia Orchestra presents A 100th Birthday Concert. Originally performed in November 2000 with Wolfgang Sawallisch conductor, André Watts piano, Sarah Chang violin, Thomas Hampson baritone. Program includes Bach/orch. Stokowski Toccata and Fugue in D minor, Dukas’s The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 2, Sarasate’s Carmen Fantasy for violin and orchestra, Copland Selections from Old American Songs, Stravinsky Suite from The Firebird. View here.

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.

10 pm ET: Seattle Opera Songs of Summer presents Jamie Barton. The American mezzo-soprano has garnered international acclaim in an array of powerhouse leading roles at many of the world’s most-loved opera houses, including the Met, Teatro Real Madrid, San Francisco Opera, and Covent Garden. Her passionate advocacy for LGBTQIA openness and acceptance makes Barton a fabulously well-suited artist for the “Pride” edition of our “Songs of Summer.” The program will feature French and English art songs, as well as American standards by Harold Arlen, Leonard Bernstein, and Irving Berlin. View here.

Friday, June 12

3 am ET: Carnegie Hall Live & Medici.TV present Michael Tilson Thomas and the New World Symphony playing Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 5 with soloist Yuja Wang, plus Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique and works by Julia Wolfe, Michael Tilson Thomas, and Wagner (Original broadcast date: March 1, 2019). View here and available for 72 hours.

7:30 am ET: National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan presents Beethoven’s Symphonies Nos. 5 and 7. Taiwan’s leading orchestra, the NSO enjoys an excellent reputation among international orchestras. Thanks to the country’s rapid response to the COVID crisis, the government has given the green light to a live audience, in this case of up to 1000. View here and for 48 hours.

8 am ET: Semperoper Dresden streams Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker. (Staging by Aaron S. Watkin and Jason Beechey). Recording of the production of the Semperoper Dresden from May 2013. View here until June 14.

8 am ET: Wigmore Hall Lunchtime Concerts presents Roderick Williams and Joseph Middleton. Part of a new series of livestreamed concerts to an empty Wigmore Hall. In his program of Schubert, Brahms, and Robert and Clara Schumann entitled “Woman’s Hour,” British baritone and composer Roderick Williams invites the audience to consider the question “Should a man be singing these songs?” Feedback welcomed during the lunchtime broadcast. View here. LIVE

10 am ET: Vienna Staatsoper streams Puccini’s La Fanciulla del West (performance of October 5, 2015). Conductor Franz Welser-Möst; director Marco Arturo Marelli, with Nina Stemme (Minnie), Tomasz Konieczny (Jack Rance), Jonas Kaufmann (Dick Johnson), Nobert Ernst (Nick), Boaz Daniel (Sonora). About as good a cast as you’ll get in Puccini’s underrated musical masterpiece. Sign up for free and view here. **

12 pm ET: Faithful Friday with Angel Blue. The acclaimed American soprano in the latest episode of her topical talk show broadcast live every Friday on Facebook and Instagram. James Robinson, the artistic director of Opera Theater of St. Louis, who directed Angel in the Met’s Porgy and Bess, joins her to share ideas about nurturing creativity, building trust, and shepherding artistic and innovative ideas to fruition. This is the thirteenth weekly installment of the series that aims to help people “keep the faith,” believe in themselves, get motivated, and support each other during these unsettling times.

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 visits Schloss Elmau in the Bavarian Alps, one of the world's most beautiful cultural hideaways and resorts. View here.

1 pm ET: National Sawdust presents Ted Hearne. Moderated by Paola Prestini and Helga Davis. Acclaimed for making audacious, politically acute music for our time that traverses boundaries of style and discipline, composer and singer Ted Hearne has been heralded for producing “some of the most expressive socially engaged music in recent memory” (Pitchfork). View here.

1 pm ET: Staatsoper Unter den Linden presents Saint-Saëns’s Carnival of the Animals for flute, clarinet, string quintet, xylophone and two pianos. The performance will take place on the stage of the currently closed Staatsoper Unter den Linden. With Polina Semionova (swan), Christoph Waltz (narrator), Daniel Barenboim and Thomas Guggeis (pianos), and members of the Staatskapelle Berlin. View here and on demand “for a few days.” LIVE

1 pm ET: OperaVision presents Schoenberg’s Moses und Aron. In Schoenberg's unfinished magnum opus, Barrie Kosky recounts the Israelites' exodus—with almost 200 performers on stage—as a parable of human's never-ending search for answers. Russian star conductor Vladimir Jurowski returns to his former workplace, the Komische Oper Berlin, to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. With Robert Hayward as Moses, John Daszak as Aron, Orchester der Komischen Oper Berlin, Chorsolisten und Kinderchor der Komischen Oper Berlin, and Vocalconsort Berlin. View here.

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.

1:30 pm ET: Vienna Staatsoper presents Staatsoper Ensemble Bel Canto 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: Royal Opera House presents La Fille Mal Gardée. (Production from 2012). Frederick Ashton's ballet is one of the choreographer's most joyous and colorful creations. Inspired by his love for the Suffolk countryside, the ballet is set on a farm and tells a story of love between Lise, the daughter of Widow Simone, and Colas, a young farmer. It contains some of Ashton's most stunning choreography, most strikingly in the series of energetic pas de deux that express the youthful passion of the young lovers, performed here by Marianela Nuñez and Carlos Acosta. The ballet is laced with exuberant good humor, and elements of national folk dance, from dancing chickens and a maypole dance to a Lancashire clog dance for Widow Simone, performed with wit and charm by William Tuckett. View here and until June 26.

2:15 pm ET: Concertgebouworkest presents Ton Koopman and Lucie Horsch. Koopman will lead the socially distanced orchestra live in works by Handel, Vivaldi and Bach. Recorder player Horsch will be appearing as soloist in Vivaldi’s Concerto for Recorder and Orchestra in C, RV 433, a work that the orchestra has never performed before. The concerto will be preceded by Handel’s Music for the Royal Fireworks, and the concert concludes with Bach’s Orchestral Suite No. 3. View here. LIVE

2:30 pm ET: Royal Opera House presents Live from Covent Garden. Hosted by the BBC’s Anita Rani and Director of Music Antonio Pappano, go behind the scenes with a select group of musicians, artists, and performers in the first live concerts since doors closed to the public on March 17. The first concert will be free and will include work by Britten and Handel, both of whom have a long history with the ROH, as well as music by Butterworth and Turnage, performed by stars including Louise Alder, Toby Spence and Gerald Finley. Also look forward to an intimate world premiere by Wayne McGregor, resident choreographer of The Royal Ballet. View here. LIVE

2:30 pm ET: BBC 3 presents the London Symphony Orchestra in Concert Archive Broadcast. Program includes Bernstein’s Prelude, Fugue and Riffs, Bartók’s Hungarian Peasant Songs, Szymanowski’s Harnasie, Stravinsky’s Ebony Concerto, Golijov’s Nazareno. With Sir Simon Rattle conductor, Katia and Marielle Labèque pianos, and London Symphony Orchestra. View here and later on demand.

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.”

5:30 pm ET: San Francisco Ballet presents Björk Ballet. (Program from March 2019.) Arthur Pita’s Björk Ballet celebrates the theatricality of Björk and her music, setting songs spanning her discography from 1993’s Debut to 2017’s Utopia. Pita’s choreography for 22 dancers exhibits his “genuine flair for knowing excess [and] command of dance theater” (San Francisco Chronicle) and offers a bevy of striking dances. View here. Plus an artist interview on Facebook at 6 pm ET.

7:30 pm ET: Nightly Met Opera Streams presents At-Home Gala. This re-broadcast of its recent Gala offers more than 40 leading artists and members of the Met Orchestra and Chorus performing virtually from their homes around the world, with General Manager Peter Gelb and Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin as hosts. Transmitted live on April 25, 2020. View here and for 24 hours.

10 pm ET: Seattle Opera presents The Drunken Tenor: Quarantini Edition! Robert McPherson reprises his hilarious act (described as “Jack Black meets Pavarotti”). Also featuring pianist David McDade and soprano Jennifer Bromagen. McPherson will perform “The Flower Song” from Carmen, “Sempre Libera” from La Traviata, a new translation of a Schubert song, operatic treatments of pop, and an attempt at crossover. “Don’t worry; no composers were harmed in the making of this evening!” Growing up, McPherson was inspired by artists who blended comedy and classical music such as Victor Borge, P.D.Q. Bach, and soprano Beverly Sills in her numerous appearances on The Muppet Show. View here.

Saturday, June 13

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 visits Schloss Elmau in the Bavarian Alps, one of the world's most beautiful cultural hideaways and resorts. View here.

12 pm ET: Pop Up Pipa with Wu Man: Episode 11: Michael Berry. On the first Saturday edition of Pop Up Pipa, Wu Man gets funky with amateur bassist and UCLA Professor of Contemporary Chinese Cultural Studies Michael Berry. View here.

1 pm ET: San Francisco Opera presents Puccini’s Il Trittico. Three one-act operas were filmed live in high-definition at the War Memorial Opera House in 2009. Director James Robinson. The operas cover a wide range of themes: a tense love triangle (Il Tabarro); the heartbreak of a nun who misses her illegitimate son (Suor Angelica) and a witty comedy about a greedy family (Gianni Schicchi). Patricia Racette makes “triumphant” role debuts in all three operas (San Francisco Chronicle). The cast also features baritone Paolo Gavanelli, tenor Brandon Jovanovich and contralto Ewa Podles. Patrick Summers conducts. View here until midnight the following day.

1 pm ET: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra presents Mozart’s Don Giovanni. The live performance from Stockholm’s Berwaldhallen will take place without audience and will be conducted by Music Director Daniel Harding. It will feature baritone Peter Mattei as Don Giovanni, sopranos Malin Byström as Donna Elvira, Johanna Wallroth as Zerlina, and Mari Eriksmoen as Donna Anna, baritone John Lundgen as Leporello, and tenor Andrew Staples as Don Ottavio. Staples also directs. View here. LIVE

1 pm ET: Vienna Staatsoper streams Prokofiev’s The Gambler (Performance of October 7, 2017). Conductor: Simone Young, director: Karoline Gruber, with Dmitri Ulyanov (Der General), Elena Guseva (Polina), Misha Didyk (Alexej), Linda Watson (Babulenka), Thomas Ebenstein (Marquis), Elena Maximova (Blanche). Sign up for free and view here.

7 pm ET: Jennifer Koh’s “Alone Together.” Twenty-one composers, most of whom have salaried positions or institutional support, are donating newly composed works to this project, while also each recommending a freelance composer to be formally commissioned. View via Instagram TV and Facebook Live. Subsequently available via YouTube. Related content throughout the week includes composer insights, rehearsal footage, and musical scores posted on social media. Program: Kati Agócs’s Thirst and Quenching, Vincent Calianno’s Ashliner, Patrick Castillo’s Mina Cecilia’s Constitutional, and a new work by Sugar Vendil.

7:30 pm ET: Nightly Met Opera Streams presents At-Home Gala. In a re-broadcast of its recent Gala event more than 40 leading artists and members of the Met Orchestra and Chorus perform virtually from their homes around the world, with General Manager Peter Gelb and Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin as hosts. Transmitted live on April 25, 2020. View here and for 24 hours.

8 pm ET: Chamber Music Society of Detroit presents Caitlin Lynch and Jonathan Lasch. Let Evening Come is a program of American Song that gives voice to our confusion, grief, hope and love. Jonathan Lasch, baritone, Caitlin Lynch, soprano, and Steven McGhee, pianist, perform American songs, both familiar and brand new, by Leonard Bernstein, William Bolcom and Jake Heggie, among others. They will highlight the works of living American composers, including new compositions by Wayne State’s Norah Duncan, IV.  The program will be web-streamed from Wayne State University’s intimate Schaver Music Recital Hall. View here.

8 pm ET: Opera Theater of St. Louis presents Opening Night Spotlight on Susannah. Carlisle Floyd's powerful opera seems to carry even more weight today than it did in 1950­, so it seems only fitting that this production would have been led by an all-female creative team. Hear from stage director (and famed soprano) Patricia Racette and SLSO Resident Conductor Gemma New on what makes this piece so iconic... and so relevant. View here.

Sunday, June 14

12 pm ET: Glyndebourne Open House and Operavision present Barber’s Vanessa. Samuel Barber’s Pulitzer Prize-winning opera is a story of longing, loss, and manipulation set to a sumptuous score. Celebrating the 60th anniversary of the opera’s premiere, Glyndebourne’s 2018 production rediscovers the forgotten Great American Opera anew. Conductor: Jakub Hrusa, director: Keith Warner, with Virginie Verrez (Erika), Emma Bell (Vanessa), Edgaras Montvidas (Anatol), Rosalind Plowright (The Old Baroness), Donnie Ray Albert (The Old Doctor), London Philharmonic Orchestra. View here and for three months.

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 visits Schloss Elmau in the Bavarian Alps, one of the world's most beautiful cultural hideaways and resorts. View here.

1 pm ET: Vienna Staatsoper streams Verdi’s Nabucco (performance of February 11, 2017). Conductor: Guillermo García Calvo, director: Günter Krämer, with Leo Nucci (Nabucco), Bror Magnus Tødenes (Ismaele), Roberto Tagliavini (Zaccaria), Anna Smirnova (Abigaille), Ilseyar Khayrullova (Fenena). Sign up for free and view here.

1 pm ET: Dutch National Opera presents Schoenberg’s Gurre-Lieder. Schoenberg's grand masterpiece was never intended for the opera stage by the composer himself. However, Pierre Audi’s staging turned out to be a masterstroke. As Marc Albrecht takes his leave from the post of chief-conductor of Dutch National Opera in relative silence, DNO’s streaming season concludes with one of his most cherished projects. With Burkhard Fritz (Waldemar), Catherine Naglestad (Tove), Anna Larsson (Wood dove), Markus Marquardt (Peasant), Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke (Klaus Narr), Sunnyi Melles (Speaker). With Schoenberg’s glorious late-Romantic score realized by 120 in the orchestra and 120 onstage, this is a not-to-be-missed must see. View here until June 21. **

2 pm ET: London Symphony Orchestra presents Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. With Sir John Eliot Gardiner conductor, Alexander Knox, Ceri-lyn Cissone, Frankie Wakefield cast, Monteverdi Choir, and London Symphony Orchestra. View here and later on demand.

3 pm ET: Boston Pops presents An American Salute. Presented in honor of the front-line personnel working during the COVID-19 crisis. Recorded in 2010 in celebration of the Pops' 125th anniversary, conductor Keith Lockhart leads the orchestra in beloved Americana selections, as well as The Dream Lives On: A Portrait of the Kennedy Brothers, a commissioned work by New England-native composer Peter Boyer and lyricist Lynn Ahrens that celebrates the inspiring language and public service of the Kennedy family with a star-studded cast of narrators and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus. View here and for 45 days.

3 pm ET: Bang on a Can presents Second Bang on a Can Marathon Live Online! The second six-hour online Marathon will include 25 live performances with musicians connecting from around the U.S. Canada, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Scotland, Italy, Ireland, and Japan, plus ten world premieres of newly commissioned works. The event kicks off with composer, singer/songwriter, activist Rhiannon Giddens and will conclude with Terry Riley live from the middle of a rice field in Japan (where he is sheltering from being on tour) in an early celebration of his 85th birthday. Other artists include Roscoe Mitchell, Nico Muhly, Leila Adu, Aaron Garcia, Susanna Hancock, Carla Kihlstedt, Žibuokle Martinaityte, Shara Nova, Ailie Robertson, Tomeka Reid, Helena Tulve, Kendall Williams, Nik B?rtsch, Iva Bittova, Tim Brady, Don Byron, Alvin Curran, Judd Greenstein, Ted Hearne, Paula Matthusen, Frederic Rzewski, Alex Weiser, Pamela Z, Gregg August, Eliza Bagg, Robert Black, Vicky Chow, David Cossin, Arlen Hlusko, Dana Jessen, Nick Photinos, Nadia Sirota, Mark Stewart, Conrad Tao, and Ken Thomson. The Marathon will be hosted by Bang on a Can Co-Founders and Artistic Directors Michael Gordon, David Lang, and Julia Wolfe. View here.

3 pm ET: Detroit Symphony Orchestra Watch Parties presents Keyboard Keynote. Program includes Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with Benjamin Glassberg, conductor and Kirill Gerstein, piano and Bach’s Concerto No. 2 for Three Keyboards, BWV 1064 with Michael Francis, conductor and Christina Naughton, Michelle Naughton, and David Fung, pianos. View here and later on demand.

5 pm ET: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center presents Front Row: David Shifrin. Enjoy an HD concert experience featuring clarinetist David Shifrin, plus see inside his life during the pandemic and attend a live Q&A session. Program includes Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet, Bassi’s Concert Fantasia on Themes from Verdi’s Rigoletto for Clarinet and Piano (with Shifrin and Gloria Chien, piano), and Ellington’s Clarinet Lament for Clarinet and Piano. View here and for 72 hours.

6 pm ET: Lincoln Center presents Memorial For Us All led by Brian Stokes Mitchell. 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, many community members from New York City and beyond have submitted names of loved ones lost to be honored this Sunday. View here.

7 pm ET: Lawrence Brownlee presents The Sitdown with LB. In the third 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 soprano Latonia Moore. Future guests will include J’Nai Bridges, Janai Brugger and more. View here.

7:30 pm ET: Nightly Met Opera Streams presents Handel’s Rodelinda. Conducted by Harry Bicket; starring Renée Fleming, Stephanie Blythe, Andreas Scholl, Iestyn Davies, Joseph Kaiser, and Shenyang. Transmitted live on December 3, 2011. View here and for 24 hours.

Monday, June 15

8 am ET: Wigmore Hall Lunchtime Concerts presents Imogen Cooper. Part of a new series of livestreamed concerts to an empty Wigmore Hall. Schubert’s German Dances, written when his health was deteriorating in the 1820s, remained unknown to the public until Brahms edited them in the 1860s. Two works by Beethoven include the subtle and inventive Bagatelles Op. 119, brought together by their composer in 1822 and first published in London the following year, and the Sonata Op. 110, one of his late-period masterpieces. View here. LIVE

10 am ET: Vienna Staatsoper streams Verdi’s Un Ballo in Maschera (Performance of April 26, 2016). Conductor: Jesús López Cobos, director: Gianfranco de Bosio, with Piotr Beczala (Gustaf III.), Dmitri Hvorostovsky (René Ankarström), Krassimira Stoyanova (Amelia), Nadia Krasteva (Ulrica), Hila Fahima (Oscar). Sign up for free and view here.

1 pm ET: The Greene Space presents Music Break: Pianists András Schiff and Piotr Anderszewski. Award-winning pianist Sir András Schiff in 2013 offered a brilliant and profound exploration of Bach, a composer who has been central to his artistry. Piotr Anderszewski, one of the most outstanding musicians of his generation, performed the music of Beethoven and Janacek in 2014. View here.

1 pm ET: IDAGIO Live presents Kirill Gerstein’s #ViewAcrossTheKeyboard. An exploration of the treasures of keyboard discography every Monday evening. View here and on demand.

1:30 pm ET: Vienna Staatsoper presents Camilla Nylund Recital. The scheduled opera will resume afterwards; concert is estimated to last 75 minutes. Sign up for free and view here. LIVE

7:30 pm ET: Met Opera Streams presents Rossini’s Armida. Conducted by Riccardo Frizza; starring Renée Fleming, Lawrence Brownlee, John Osborn, Barry Banks, and Kobie van Rensburg. Transmitted live on May 1, 2010. View here and for 24 hours.

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.

NEW: 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 soon.

Los Angeles Master Chorale
“Offstage with the Los Angeles Master Chorale” is a weekly series airing at 5 pm (PT) and beginning on Friday, April 24. 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.

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.

NEW: 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, masterclasses, 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.

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.

OperaVision
OperaVision offers livestreams of operas available for free and online for six months. Previous offerings include Don Giovanni from Finnish National Opera and David McVicar’s superb Die Entführung aus dem Serail from Glyndebourne **. Next up is a fascinating Russian season. 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: 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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Pictured, from the top: Anna Netrebko as Ioloanta, Alice Coote and Christine Schäfer in Hansel and Gretel,
Wolfgang Sawallisch, Daniel Harding, The Drunken Quarintini, Patricia Racette, David Schifrin