MA's Free Guide to Mostly Free Streams, July 20-27

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Monday, July 20

12 pm ET: Aspen Music Festival and School presents High Notes Discussion. A live panel conversation moderated by AMFS President and CEO Alan Fletcher, with the opportunity for audience questions through the chat function. This week includes cellist Alisa Weilerstein, pianist Inon Barnatan, AMFS artist-faculty member Yoheved Kaplinsky, and percussionist AMFS artist-faculty member Timothy Adams. Watch and join via Zoom or view here and on demand until July 26. LIVE

1 pm ET: Chamber Music Northwest’s Virtual Summer Festival presents Family Concert: Marita and Her Heart’s Desire. Written specifically for young audiences new to chamber music, Bruce Adolphe’s Marita and Her Heart’s Desire tells the magical, mysterious, and funny story of a girl who believes the moon can grant her heart’s desire. She sets off to talk to the moon and on her way, she is joined by a clarinet cat, a trombone rat, bassoon dog, and piccolo mouse. View here.

1 pm ET: Church of Trinity Wall Street presents Comfort at One. From April 2018: The Choir of Trinity Wall Street and Trinity Baroque Orchestra continue their traversal of Bach’s sacred cantatas with performances of Tritt auf die Glaubensbahn (BWV 152) and the transcendent Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit (BWV 106). View here.

1 pm ET: Verbier Festival presents Thomas Quasthoff. Quasthoff’s distinctive, exquisite baritone has enchanted Festival attendees across a wide variety of repertoire, with concerts dedicated to the work of composers like Schubert and Schumann. In 2015 he made his conducting debut with Bach’s St. Matthew Passion. View here.

7 pm ET: LA Opera presents Russell Thomas Living Room Recital. Tenor Russell Thomas has appeared for LA Opera as Cavaradossi in Tosca, Pollione in Norma and Titus in The Clemency of Titus. Here he collaborates with pianist Kyung-mi Kim for a program of art songs by Vaughan Williams, Schubert, Verdi, and Mascagni, as well as the iconic Billie Holiday hit, “Strange Fruit.” View here and on demand. LIVE

7:30 pm ET: Met Opera Streams presents Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia. Starring Isabel Leonard, Lawrence Brownlee, Christopher Maltman, and Maurizio Muraro, conducted by Michele Mariotti. From November 22, 2014. View here and for 24 hours.

8 pm ET: Tanglewood Online Festival presents Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra Encore Performances. This broadcast begins with a performance from the TMCO under Andris Nelsons with pianist Paul Lewis, a great friend of the BSO who would have been the 2020 Koussevitzky Artist at Tanglewood. Program: Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1, Ravel’s La Valse. Register free and view here.

10 pm ET: Chamber Music Northwest’s Virtual Summer Festival presents Protégés at the Alberta Rose. Discover the next generation of classical music stars in this program of Ravel, Mozart, and Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time performed by artists and mentors of the  Chamber Music Northwest Protégé, which, since 2010,  has played a key role in launching the professional careers of dozens of America’s finest chamber musicians. View here.

Tuesday, July 21

1 pm ET: Verbier Festival presents Joshua Bell. For over a decade, Joshua Bell has been a regular guest at Verbier. In brand-new footage filmed for this year’s Virtual Verbier Festival, as well as in footage from previous editions, you hear the limpid phrasing and lyrical tone of his 1713 Stradivarius, played as only he can play it. View here.

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

2 pm ET: European Concert Hall Organization presents Athens Megaron. Program: Weber’s Oberon Overture, The Queen of the Night’s aria from The Magic Flute, Gilda’s aria from Rigoletto, “Una voce poco fa” from Il Barbiere di Seviglia, and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6 (Pathétique). With the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Zubin Mehta, conductor, and Christina Poulitsi, soprano. View here and on demand.

2 pm ET: Live with Carnegie Hall presents Isaac Stern Centenary, honoring the centenary of his birth, exploring his legacy as a violinist, educator, and arts advocate who changed the course of classical music worldwide. Special guests discuss his artistry, his leadership in spearheading the 1960 campaign to save the Hall from demolition, his tenure as the Hall’s first president, and his role as a mentor to generations of musicians. View here. LIVE

7:30 pm ET: Nightly Met Opera Streams presents Wagner’s Tannhäuser (Classic Telecast). Starring Éva Marton, Tatiana Troyanos, Richard Cassilly, Bernd Weikl, and John Macurdy, conducted by James Levine. From December 20, 1982. View here and for 24 hours.

7:30 pm ET: 92Y Summer Concerts presents Eric Lu plays Schubert & Chopin. The winner of the 2018 Leeds Competition and prizewinner at the International Chopin Competition in Warsaw makes a long-anticipated 92Y debut with performances of Schubert's late A Major Sonata and a selection of Chopin Preludes. Tickets $10 and view here. LIVE

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

Wednesday, July 22

1 pm ET: Pärnu Music Festival presents Sumera, Beethoven & Mozart. Paavo Järvi and the Estonian Festival Orchestra with Olli Mustonen (piano) perform Lepo Sumera’s Symphony No. 3, Beethoven’s Piano Concerto in D, Op.61 (the composer’s arrangement of the Violin Concerto), and Mozart’s Symphony No. 39 in E flat. Tickets at seven 7 euros here give access to the live stream and viewing for a further 30 days. LIVE

1 pm ET: Verbier Festival presents Verbier Festival Orchestra. Founded in 2000, the Verbier Festival Orchestra provides a training ground for gifted young instrumentalists. Rising talents aged 18 to 28 come from all over the world to work with leading international conductors and soloists—like Janine Jansen, Daniil Trifonov, Yuja Wang, Paavo Järvi, Evgeny Kissin, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Yefim Bronfman, Joyce DiDonato, and Martha Argerich—and to prepare and perform at concerts during the Festival. View here.

1 pm ET: Church of Trinity Wall Street presents Comfort at One. From February 2018: Under Julian Wachner’s leadership, Associate Organist Avi Stein joined the Trinity Baroque Orchestra, the Choir of Trinity Wall Street, and soloists Molly Netter, Timothy Parsons, Luthien Brackett, Steven Caldicott Wilson, and Jonathan Woody for an account of Duruflé’s Messe cum Jubilo, at the St. Paul’s Organ Inauguration Opening Concert. View here.

2:30 pm ET: Martha Graham Dance Company presents Clytemnestra Part 3. Martha Matinees return with a sizzling three-part Summer Series. Visit the bloody aftermath of the Trojan War as Clytemnestra, Agamemnon, Electra, Orestes, and many more re-enact the betrayal, adultery, murder, revenge and redemption of this timeless tragedy. The complete work is danced by an all-star cast from 1979 with Yuriko Kimura as the Queen. Each matinee includes archival clips of Martha in the title role—and a live chat with Graham Artistic Director Janet Eilber, Archives Director Oliver Tobin, and special guests. View here.

7:30 pm ET: Nightly Met Opera Streams presents Verdi’s Macbeth. Starring Maria Guleghina, Dimitri Pittas, Željko Lucic, and John Relyea, conducted by James Levine. From January 12, 2008. View here and for 24 hours.

7:30 pm ET: Kent Blossom Music Festival presents Kalichstein-Laredo-Roninson Trio. Andre Previn’s Trio No. 2 for Piano, Violin, and Cello, Ravel’s Piano Trio in A Minor, and Mendelssohn’s Piano Trio No. 1 in D Minor. View here. LIVE

8 pm ET: Tanglewood Online Festival presents Recitals from the World Stage: Brooklyn Rider. Hosted by Karen Allen. Three of the works on this program were included on Brooklyn Rider’s recording Healing Modes. The third movement, “Holy Song of Thanksgiving for a Convalescent,” from Beethoven’s Quartet in A minor, Op. 132, alternates hymnlike sections with passages marked “feeling new strength.” Both Matana Roberts’s borderlands and Caroline Shaw’s Schisma were commissioned for the quartet’s project on healing. Philip Glass’s Third Quartet is based on music he wrote for the biopic of Yukio Mishima. Cost of event: $8. View and purchase tickets here.

Thursday, July 23

5:30 am ET: Sydney International Piano Competition presents The Sydney Piano Marathon. Relive the thrills and passion of the 2016 Sydney International Piano Competition webcast for free over three days in a 60+ hour digital event. As well as individual competition rounds there will be video postcards from the 2016 and 2020 competitors, Artistic Director Piers Lane AO, jury members, key supporters, and others. View here until Sunday July 26.

1 pm ET: Pärnu Music Festival presents Sumera, Strauss & Mozart. Paavo Järvi and the Estonian Festival Orchestra with Alena Baeva (violin) perform Lepo Sumera’s Symphony No. 3, Richard Strauss’s Violin Concerto in D minor, and Mozart’s Symphony No. 39 in E flat. Tickets at 7 euros here give access to the live stream and viewing for a further 30 days. LIVE

1 pm ET: IDAGIO presents Thursdays with Thomas. Join 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. LIVE

1 pm ET: LA Opera presents Backstage at LAO. The company's Music Director, James Conlon, hosts an informal chat, "Coffee with Conlon," taking on questions submitted online with a special focus on Wagner's Ring Cycle. View here and on demand. LIVE

1 pm ET: Verbier Festival presents András Schiff and Quatuor Ébène. András Schiff has always been selective in his repertoire. A virtuoso pianist, renowned conductor, and expert pedagogue, he has shared his rigor and attention to detail with audiences and students alike at the Verbier Festival. The innovative Quatuor Ébène has been part of the festival for more than half its life, first at the Verbier Academy in 2007 and then on the main program since 2010. View here.

2 pm ET: Live with Carnegie Hall presents Audra McDonald. The Broadway star is joined by musical director Andy Einhorn, including selections that are new to her songbook as well as a conversation with CBS Sunday Morning correspondent Mo Rocca. View here. LIVE

3 pm ET: BBC Philharmonic presents The Music Room: Reflecting Beethoven. The second episode of this filmed in-conversation series hosted by Chief Conductor Omer Meir Wellber that explores each of Beethoven’s nine symphonies. Each episode reflects Beethoven through various, out-of-the-ordinary aspects portrayed by special guests such as Beethoven himself, Napoleon, Freud, Schindler, Schiller, Goethe and the Immortal Beloved. The films also feature musicians from the BBC Philharmonic taking an informal look at Beethoven’s music as well as archive performances. View here.

6 pm ET: National Sawdust presents Tyondai Braxton. The American composer has been writing and performing music under his own name and collaboratively since the mid 1990s. His music incorporates electronic and modern orchestral elements, ranging from solo pieces to large-scale symphonic works. He has been written for ensembles such as The Bang on a Can All Stars, Kronos Quartet, Alarm Will Sound, and Brooklyn Rider. In 2012, Braxton collaborated with Philip Glass, performing as a duo as well as remixing Glass’s work for the REWORK album. View here. LIVE

7 pm ET: Merola Opera Program presents Master Chat with David Garrison. Although he is known for his television roles, Garrison is primarily a theater actor, particularly in musicals. His Broadway appearances include A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine, Wicked, The Visit, Titanic, Torch Song Trilogy, The Pirates of Penzance, Bells Are Ringing, and A History of the American Film. Garrison will direct Merola’s 2021 production of Dominick Argento’s vivid one-act opera, Postcard from Morocco. View here. LIVE

7 pm ET: Caramoor Festival presents Musicians from The Knights, who pair the world premiere of Shorthand, by Anna Clyne, with Brahms’s Second String Sextet. Tickets are $10 (Caramoor members receive complimentary access) and go on sale five days before show. More info here. LIVE

7:30 pm ET: Nightly Met Opera Streams presents Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette. Starring Anna Netrebko, Roberto Alagna, Nathan Gunn, and Robert Lloyd, conducted by Plácido Domingo. From December 15, 2007. View here and for 24 hours.

7:30 pm ET: 92Y Summer Concerts presents Inon Barnatan: Time Traveler Suite. Merging Baroque dance suites by Bach, Handel, and Rameau with movements from more modern works by Ravel, Barber and Thomas Adès into a seamless whole, Barnatan removes the entire notion of time/genre/place to arrive at a musical experience that is totally new. Tickets $10 and view here. LIVE

8 pm ET: Tanglewood Online Festival presents Virtual Gala. A revisit of last summer’s celebration of the centennial of violinist Isaac Stern, whose long relationship with the BSO began in January 1948 and continued for nearly 50 years. Artists from around the world celebrate him through spoken word, musical performances, and archival footage. Register for free and view here.

8:30 pm ET: Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival presents Miró Quartet’s Beethoven Cycle. Concert 4: String Quartet in F Major, Op. 59 No. 1 (Razumovsky). The Miró Quartet will be streaming live from their hometown of Austin, TX. Online concerts will feature opportunities for members of the quartet to answer viewer questions. Tickets $20, or $120 for full Festival pass. More info, purchase and view here. LIVE

9 pm ET: Bravo! Vail presents Dover Plays Dohnányi. Part of a reimagined season of outdoor concerts in the Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater. Program: Haydn’s String Quartet in D minor, No. 2, Quinten, Bacewicz’s Quartet (1949), and Dohnányi’s Quintet No. 1 for Two Violins, Viola, Cello and Piano in C minor, with Amy yang, piano. Register for link to view for free here.

9:30 pm ET: Colorado Music Festival presents Brooklyn Rider. In this fresh and inventive program, string quartet Brooklyn Rider explores the profound healing power of music through dynamic works by composers with a wide array of backgrounds and perspectives. To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment, Festival musicians also perform Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman No. 5 by composer Joan Tower. Register for free and view here

10 pm ET: Seattle Opera Songs of Summer presents Theo Hoffman. Scheduled to make his McCaw Hall debut in 2020’s production of La Bohème, Hoffman will make his Seattle Opera debut in Songs of Summer. His program balances works by Samuel Barber, Tchaikovsky, and Fauré with selections by Richard Rodgers and Stephen Sondheim. Recognized for his nuance and range, Hoffman is the recent winner of the Sara Tucker Study Grant from the Richard Tucker Music Foundation. View here and on demand for two weeks. LIVE

Friday, July 24

1 pm ET: Verbier Festival presents Daniil Trifonov. Since his breakthrough at the 2011 International Tchaikovsky Competition, Daniil Trifonov has become one of today’s most widely lauded pianists. Since his 2012 Verbier Festival debut playing works by Chopin, his appearances in the Alps have met with international acclaim. View here.

1 pm ET: OperaVision presents Rossini’s The Barber of Seville. Recorded in 2016. This production of Rossini’s comic masterpiece revives and stylises a historic staging from 1997 on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the opera’s premiere. Directed by José Luis Castro, with magnificent scenography by painters Carmen Laffon and Juan Suárez depicting Rossini’s romantic vision of the Andalusian capital in Seville itself.  With the Real Orquesta Sinfónica de Sevilla conducted by Giuseppe Finzi and Michele Angelini, Renato Girolami, Marina Comparato, Davide Luciano, and Dmitry Ulyanov. View here and on demand for six months.

2 pm ET: Gramophone Magazine presents Orchestra of the Year 2020. The classical music magazine streams concerts by this year’s ten finalists. This episode features Freiburger Barockorchester (Germany) directed by Kristian Bezuidenhout in Beethoven’s Piano Concertos Nos. 1 to 3. View here and for 23 hours.

2 pm ET: Royal Opera House presents The Sleeping Beauty (production from 2020). The Royal Ballet’s landmark production brings to life the world of princesses, fairy godmothers, and magic spells. With choreography by Marius Petipa, additional choreography by Frederick Ashton, Anthony Dowell and Christopher Wheeldon and a masterful score by Tchaikovsky, the 2020 recording stars Fumi Kaneko as Princess Aurora, Federico Bonelli as Prince Florimund, Kristen McNally as Carabosse, and Gina Storm-Jensen as the Lilac Fairy. Simon Hewett conducts the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House. View here until July 31.

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 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.” LIVE

5 pm ET: The Perlman Music Program presents Summer Gala. This year, the Program’s annual summer gala is reimagined as a festive online experience. The evening will feature Toby and Itzhak Perlman, the 2020 Summer Music School Students, the 2020 Chamber Music Workshop Young Artists, PMP faculty and alumni, and other surprise guests. View here.

7 pm ET: Rockport Music presents Concert Window: Chee-Yun & Henry Kramer. Since her first public performance at age eight, violinist Chee-Yun has enraptured audiences with her flawless technique and compelling artistry. Pianist Henry Kramer is developing a reputation as a musician of rare sensitivity who combines stylish programming with insightful interpretations. Program: Fauré’s Violin Sonata, Debussy’s Violin Sonata, Claire de lune (solo piano), and Beau Soir for violin and piano View here. LIVE

7:30 pm ET: Live from Lincoln Center presents 50 Years of Mostly Mozart. The Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra is conducted by Louis Langrée with pianist Richard Goode. The program includes Symphonies No. 1 and 41 (Jupiter) and the Piano Concerto No. 12 in A. Footage from the rest of the 50th season documents the full scope of the festival, including choreographer Mark Morris’s critically acclaimed Mozart Dances, new works from the International Contemporary Ensemble, and the world premiere of David Lang’s massive work for 1,000 volunteer voices, the public domain. Original performance August 10, 2016. View here.

7:30 pm ET: Nightly Met Opera Streams presents Verdi’s Falstaff. Starring Mirella Freni, Barbara Bonney, Marilyn Horne, Bruno Pola, and Paul Plishka, conducted by James Levine. From October 10, 1992. View here and for 24 hours.

7:30 pm ET: Festival de Lanaudière presents Peter and the Wolf. All the magic and wonder of Prokofiev’s children’s story are brought to life in this recording dated July 28, 1991. A “must hear” for young and not-so-young. The composer’s Symphony No. 1 in D major (Classical) is also on the program. With Kim Yaroshevskaya, narrator, Orchestre Métropolitain, Agnès Grossman, conductor. Register free and view here.

8 pm ET: IDAGIO presents Yo-Yo Ma. A homage to Ennio Morricone who died earlier this month. Morricone thought of music as “energy, space, and time” and Ma’s recital will explore these themes in a program that takes performer and audience on a journey across space and time, from Morricone’s iconic film scores to traditional tunes from Mongolia and America, to Schubert and Bach. Tickets 9.90 Euros and view here.

8 pm ET: Tanglewood Online Festival presents BSO Musicians in Recital from Tanglewood. Hosted by Lauren Ambrose. The violin is the focus of this chamber music program. Victor Romanul plays solo selections, including the Chaconne from Bach’s D minor Partita. Tatiana Dimitriades performs Mendelssohn’s early Sonata in F and William Grant Still’s beautifully lullaby Mother and Child. Both Still’s work and his contemporary Florence Price’s String Quartet were influenced by their composers’ African American heritage. Completing this wide-ranging program is Dvorák’s Terzetto for two violins and viola, which is infused with elements of Czech folk music. Cost of event: $5. View and purchase tickets here. LIVE

8:30 pm ET: Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival presents Miró Quartet’s Beethoven Cycle. Concert 5: String Quartet in E minor, Op.59 No. 2 (Razumovsky). The Miró Quartet will be streaming live from their hometown of Austin, Texas. Online concerts will feature opportunities for members of the quartet to answer viewer questions. Tickets $20, or $120 for full Festival pass. More info, purchase and view here. LIVE

Saturday, July 25

12 pm ET: Daniel Hope presents Hope@Home on Tour. As Germany relaxes its lockdown the award-winning violinist takes his popular livestream-TV series on the road. Previous episodes have come from the Beethoven Haus in Bonn, Dresden’s Frauenkirche, and Zurich. View here. LIVE

1 pm ET: Verbier Festival presents Renaud & Gautier Capuçon. The Capuçon brothers are no strangers to the Verbier Festival. This virtual edition contains never-before-seen content and archival performances by violinist Renaud and cellist Gautier, whose history with the festival goes back to 1995. View here.

1 pm ET: San Francisco Opera presents Janácek’s The Makropulos Case (production from 2010). Olivier Tambosi’s staging stars Finnish soprano Karita Mattila in her role debut as the enigmatic, renowned singer Emilia Marty. The late Jirí Belohlávek conducts this 1926 Czech masterpiece. The cast also features Slovak tenor Miro Dvorsky as Albert Gregor, German bass-baritone Gerd Grochowski as Baron Jaroslav Prus, and America bass-baritone Dale Travis as Dr. Kolenatý. An underrated opera and a triumph for Mattila who was born to play the role. View here and until midnight (PT) the following day.**

2 pm ET: DG Stage presents Virtual Bayreuth Festival: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. The high point of the 2017 Bayreuth Festival: Barrie Kosky’s “astonishingly entertaining and convincing” (Der Spiegel) new Meistersinger is “a triumph” (Berliner Morgenpost). Music Director: Philippe Jordan, stage director: Barrie Kosky. With Hans Sachs (cobbler): Michael Volle, Veit Pogner (goldsmith): Günther Groissböck, Sixtus Beckmesser (town clerk): Johannes Martin Kränzle, Walther von Stolzing (a young knight from Franconia): Klaus Florian Vogt, David (Sachs’s apprentice): Daniel Behle, Eva (Pogner’s daughter): Anne Schwanewilms. Tickets 4.90 Euros here and view for 48 hours.

2 pm ET: Gramophone Magazine presents Orchestra of the Year 2020. The classical music magazine streams concerts by this year’s ten finalists. This episode features Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin (Germany) conducted by Robin Ticciati in Rebel’s Les élémens, Larcher’s Symphony No. 2, Kenotaph, and Strauss’s Also sprach Zarathustra. View here and for 23 hours.

5 pm ET: The Cell and Room | to | Breathe presents Culture Creatures. The next installment in this series features composer/vocalist Kamala Sankaram,  guitarist Drew Fleming of Bombay Rickey, and visual artist Kevork Mourad with further artists to be announced. Online access to the virtual concert is $25 per event or buy 5 get 1 free. Part of all proceeds will benefit The Young Center For Immigrant Children’s Rights. More info here and the concert is repeated at 8 pm ET.

7 pm ET: Norfolk Chamber Music Festival presents Celebrating Festival Alumni. The Maverick Brass Quintet, Norfolk Woodwind Quintet, and Viano String Quartet perform selections from Bernstein’s West Side Story, Danzi’s Wind Quintet in G minor, No. 2, and Dvorák’s String Quartet in A-flat Major. Concert begins after an introduction with Festival Director Melvin Chen and the evening's artists. View here. LIVE

7:30 pm ET: Nightly Met Opera Streams presents Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier. Starring Renée Fleming, Christine Schäfer, Susan Graham, and Kristinn Sigmundsson, conducted by Edo de Waart. From January 9, 2010. View here and for 24 hours.

7:30 pm ET: Festival de Lanaudière presents Kent Nagano conducts Mahler. The monumental breadth of Mahler’s Second Symphony makes it one of the composer’s most imposing works. Recording from August 9, 2014, with Erin Wall, soprano, Susan Platts, mezzo-soprano, Festival Chamber Choir, Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, Kent Nagano, conductor. Register free and view here.

8 pm ET: LA Chamber Orchestra presents LACO SummerFest #2. LACA resumes gathering together with the second of five newly recorded performanceswith social distancing and no audience. Program: Florence Price’s Adoration, arranged by Josh Ranz for Clarinet and String Quartet, and Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet. With Tereza Stanislav and Cheryl Norman-Brick, violins, Robert Brophy, viola, Andrew Shulman, cello, and Joshua Ranz, clarinet. View here and on demand. LIVE

8 pm ET: Tanglewood Online Festival presents Great Performers in Recital from Tanglewood. Hosted by Nicole Cabell. Italian-born Austrian violinist Augustin Hadelich and American pianist Orion Weiss, a former Tanglewood Fellow, began touring together as a duo in 2019. Program: Debussy’s Violin Sonata in G minor, Brahms’s Violin Sonata No. 2 in A, , and John Adams’s Road Movies. Cost of event: $12. View and purchase tickets here. LIVE

8 pm ET: Chamber Music Society of Detroit presents Attacca Quartet. The Attacca Quartet’s recent CD, Orange, devoted to the music of Caroline Shaw, won a 2019 Grammy Award. The webcast treats us to performances of two of the composer’s works.  Rounding out the program are Haydn’s late C Major Quartet Op. 74, No. 1, and Beethoven’s Grosse Fuge. View here. LIVE

8:30 pm ET: Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival presents Miró Quartet’s Beethoven Cycle. Concert 6: String Quartet in C, Op. 59 No. 3 (Razumovsky). The Miró Quartet will be streaming live from their hometown of Austin, Texas. Online concerts will feature opportunities for members of the quartet to answer viewer questions. Tickets $20, or $120 for full Festival pass. More info, purchase and view here. LIVE

8 pm ET: Music@Menlo presents Arnaud Sussmann. Four programs from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center each spotlight a Music@Menlo artist, including HD concert recordings and a look into the artists’ lives and musical activities during COVID-19. Hosted by Music@Menlo Artistic Co-Directors David Finckel and Wu Han, this second instalment features violinist Arnaud Sussmann. View here. LIVE

9 pm ET: The Santa Fe Opera presents Songs from the Santa Fe Opera: Dvorák's Rusalka. An opening night celebration hosted by soprano Amanda Echalaz from the Crosby Theatre at the Santa Fe Opera, the program includes a mini-talk by Dramaturg Cori Ellison, a performance of "Song to the Moon" by soprano Ailyn Pérez, and a discussion with Santa Fe Opera Music Director Harry Bicket and Director Sir David Pountney. All material is pre-recorded in Santa Fe or in artist’s homes around the world and done in accordance with current safety guidelines. Free to watch here and on-demand here.

10 pm ET: Chamber Music Northwest’s Virtual Summer Festival presents Grand Finale. In his final performance as Chamber Music Northwest Artistic Director, David Shifrin plays the world premiere of a new clarinet solo written for him by David Ludwig and revisits great performances of Bach’s Concerto for Violin and Oboe in C Minor with oboist Allan Vogel and violinist Soovin Kim and more. View here. LIVE

Sunday, July 26

11 am ET: Kaufman Music Center presents Orli Shaham’s Bach Yard Playdate. Pianist Orli Shaham brings her acclaimed interactive concert series for kids to the internet. This episode, Fox’s Tango with Rabbit, features an original story by Shaham set to music performed by bandoneon player Hector del Curto. Music performed includes Palomita blanca by García Gimenez y Anselmo Aieta, El choclo and El Porteñito by Ángel Villoldo, and an improvisation by del Curto himself. View here.

12 pm ET: Glyndebourne Open House presents Verdi’s Falstaff. Inspired by Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor, and particularly its larger-than-life hero Sir John Falstaff, Verdi’s opera collides English subtlety with Italian ebullience to create a perfect comic evening. Updated to a post-war Windsor of pompous ex-army officers, redoubtable Brownie leaders and lovesick GIs, Richard Jones’s production is less Tudor than mock-Tudor—an updating that brings a zany, sitcom energy to this classic comedy. Vladimir Jurowski conducts a cast led by British bass-baritone Christopher Purves. (Captured live at Festival 2009.)View here until August 2.

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. Previous episodes have come from the Beethoven Haus in Bonn, Dresden’s Frauenkirche, and Zurich. View here. LIVE

1 pm ET: Music@Menlo presents Schubert’s Winterreise. The eagerly awaited release of Music@Menlo’s 2019 festival recording of Schubert’s masterwork. Presented in partnership with BBC Music, this online launch party features a live Q&A with the recording artists, baritone Nikolay Borchev and pianist Wu Han, and a video showing the making of the recordings during the 2019 festival. View here. LIVE

1 pm ET: Verbier Festival presents Singers of Verbier. Program includes Nina Stemme singing Wagner, Rolando Villazón and Bryn Terfel taking on Mozart, Berlioz’s Les nuits d’été sung by Joyce DiDonato, Johann Strauss’s Voices of Spring with Pretty Yende, opera and songs by Debussy with Magdalena Kožená and Barbara Hendricks, and French melodies interpreted by countertenor Philippe Jaroussky. View here.

2 pm ET: The Academy of St Martin in the Fields presents highlights from the celebratory “Marriner at 90” concert recorded on April 1, 2014 at the Royal Festival Hall for the occasion of the Academy’s founder Sir Neville Marriner’s 90th birthday. He conducts Elgar’s Enigma Variations, Joshua Bell is the soloist and conductor in Saint-Saëns’s Introduction & Rondo Capriccioso. View here and for two weeks.

2 pm ET: DG Stage presents Virtual Bayreuth Festival: Tannhäuser. Tobias Kratzer’s “novel… wrenching” (New York Times) 2019 production of Tannhäuser as a wildly contemporary parable of art and freedom was greeted with a standing ovations and exceptional press acclaim. Young Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen makes her “astonishingly mature” (New York Times) Bayreuth debut as Elisabeth, American heldentenor Stephen Gould exhibits “great dramatic and vocal power in the title role” (Telegraph), and Russian mezzo Elena Zhidkova is the “scene stealing Venus” (Opera Today). Tickets 4.90 euros here and view for 48 hours.

2 pm ET: Gramophone Magazine presents Orchestra of the Year 2020. The classical music magazine streams concerts by this year’s ten finalists. This episode features Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra (Norway) conducted by Edward Gardner in Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé Suite No 2, Grieg’s Piano Concerto (with Leif Ove Andsnes), Ørjan Matre’s Butterfly (from Lyric Pieces), Sibelius’s Luonnotar (with Lise Davidsen), and Schoenberg’s Pelleas und Melisande. View here and for 23 hours.

2:30 pm ET: Tanglewood Online Festival presents Encore Performance. Hosted by Jamie Bernstein. The multitalented André Previn—jazz and classical pianist, film, stage, and concert composer, and world class conductor had a long, congenial relationship with Tanglewood. In this 2007 concert, Previn is joined by cellist Daniel Müller-Schott in Haydn’s Cello Concerto and by mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung for Ravel’s lush three-song cycle Shéhérazade. Mozart’s Symphony No. 29 opens the program and Ravel’s brilliant orchestration of his Mother Goose concludes. Register free and view here.

3 pm ET: Live From Music Mountain presents The American String Quartet. An all-Beethoven program that celebrates the composer’s 250th birthday. The American String Quartet will discuss Beethoven’s controversial metronome markings, andwill take questions from the public. View here. LIVE

3 pm ET: Opus 2020 presents An Evening of Music to support Spread the Vote. Jonathan Biss, Yo-Yo Ma, Emanuel Ax, Anthony McGill, Alisa Weilerstein, and Noah Bendix-Balgley perform in a recital program in support of Spread the Vote, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization devoted to voter empowerment. The organization helps eligible voters understand voter ID laws in their area. All ticket proceeds go to Spread the Vote and their work to engage as many voters as possible in the 2020 elections and beyond. More info, and to register for a link to the event here. 

3:30 pm ET: Festival de Lanaudière presents Gwyneth Jones in Concert. Recorded at Église Saint-Jacques de Montcalm on August 23, 1988. Gifted with an exceptional Wagnerian voice, Gwyneth Jones’s extraordinary dramatic instinct enabled her to rise to the highest firmament. Program includes Wagner’s “Dich, teure, Halle” from Tannhäuser, Verdi’s “Vieni, t’affretta… Or tutti sorgete” from Macbeth, Overture and “Pace, pace, mi Dio!” from La Forza del Destino, Puccini’s “Vissi d’arte” from Tosca and “In questa reggia” from Turandot, Lehár’s “Vilja-Lied” from Die Lustige Witwe, and Lloyd Webber’s “Memory” from Cats. With Orchestre symphonique de Québec, Simon Streatfeild, conductor. Register free and view here.

5 pm ET: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center presents Summer Evenings III. Program: Albinoni’s Sonata di concerto a 7 for Trumpet, Two Violins, Two Violas, Cello, and Continuo (1694) with David Washburn, trumpet, Ani Kavafian, Giora Schmidt, violin, Mark Holloway, Richard O’Neill, viola, Mihai Marica, cello, Stéphane Logerot, bass, and Kenneth Weiss, harpsichord; Mozart’s Quartet in D for Flute, Violin, Viola, and Cello, K. 285 with Tara Helen O’Connor, flute, Benjamin Beilman, violin, Richard O’Neill, viola, Keith Robinson, cello; and Brahms’s Trio in C minor for Piano, Violin, and Cello, Op. 101 with Michael Brown, piano, Paul Huang, violin, and Dmitri Atapine, cello. View here.

6 pm ET: Lyric Opera of Chicago presents Lawrence Brownlee and Friends: The Next Chapter. Hosted by the renowned tenor, who also serves as artistic advisor for the event, the concert will also feature prominent Ryan Opera Center alumni—soprano Whitney Morrison, mezzo-soprano J'Nai Bridges, and baritone Will Liverman—as well as three current 2020/21 Ryan Opera Center Ensemble members, Martin Luther Clark, Lunga Eric Hallam, and Leroy Davis. Lyric Opera Orchestra members will feature in a movement from John Carter’s Cantata. Repertoire will include music and/or texts by Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) artists, while Brownlee will perform “Ah! mes amis” from Donizetti’s La Fille du Régiment, and arrangements of spirituals by Damien Sneed. Register for free and view here.

Lawrence Brownlee and Friends at the Lyric Opera of Chicago

6:30 pm ET: Bridgehampton Chamber Music presents All About Mozart. Mozart wrote music of exacting elegance and refinement, but personally was drawn to bawdy humor and absurdity. The 2020 Virtual Festival kicks off with a program featuring two works for winds and strings—the Horn Quintet in E-flat and Clarinet Quintet in A—interspersed with Schnittke’s tongue-in-cheek ode to the Austrian master, Moz-Art. With Marya Martin, flute; Tommaso Lonquich, clarinet; Stewart Rose, horn; Jonathan Crow, Stefan Jackiw, Tessa Lark, Anthony Marwood, Tien-Hsin Cindy Wu, violin; Yura Lee, violin/viola; Cynthia Phelps, Cong Wu, viola; Paul Watkins, cello. View here until August 2.

7:30 pm ET: Nightly Met Opera Streams presents Puccini’s La Fanciulla del West. Starring Eva-Maria Westbroek, Jonas Kaufmann, and Željko Lucic, conducted by Marco Armiliato. From October 27, 2018. View here and for 24 hours.

8 pm ET: Music@Menlo presents Calidore Quartet. The Quartet celebrates both its 10th anniversary and the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth with a performance of his String Quartet in B-flat, Op. 130 and Grosse Fuge in B-flat, Oop. 133. View here. LIVE

Monday, July 27

1 pm ET: Church of Trinity Wall Street presents Comfort at One. From March 2017: Members of The Choir of Trinity Wall Street joined New York Baroque Incorporated and organist Avi Stein for works by Bach, Buxtehude and Heinichen in the “Bach at One: Law” series. View here.

1 pm ET: Verbier Festival presents Mikhaïl Pletnev. The son of two musicians, Mikhail Pletnev won First Prize at the VI International Tchaikovsky Competition in 1978. Pletnev is also a renowned conductor and has excelled in both roles over the years at Verbier, collaborating with artists like Janine Jansen and Gábor Takács-Nagy. View here.

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2 pm ET: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra presents Sir Simon Rattle. The BRSO season closes with works by Mozart, Mahler, Dukas, and Ravel in the Philharmonie im Gasteig, with Magdalena Kožená as the soloist of Mahler’s Rückert-Lieder. View here.

2 pm ET: Gramophone Magazine presents Orchestra of the Year 2020. The classical music magazine streams concerts by this year’s ten finalists. This episode features NHK Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo (Japan) conducted by Paavo Järvi in Rachmaninov’s Symphony No. 2. View here and for 23 hours.

7:30 pm ET: Met Opera Streams presents Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor. Starring Natalie Dessay, Joseph Calleja, Ludovic Tézier, and Kwangchul Youn, conducted by Patrick Summers. From March 19, 2011. View here and for 24 hours.

8 pm ET: Music@Menlo presents Artists Up Close: Anthony McGill. Patrick Castillo talks with New York Philharmonic principal clarinetist Anthony McGill, before streaming Anthony’s 2014 Music@Menlo performance of Beethoven’s Quintet in E-flat for Winds and Piano, Op. 16, (Allegro). View here. LIVE

8 pm ET: Tanglewood Online Festival presents Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra Encore Performances. Three titans of Tanglewood. Leonard Bernstein was a member of the TMC’s inaugural class of 1940 as well as of Aaron Copland, the TMC’s Head of Faculty. The Meditations from Bernstein’s Mass features another Tanglewood icon: cellist Yo-Yo Ma. John Williams served as conductor of the Boston Pops for over a decade. Highwood’s Ghost—a BSO commission in honor of Bernstein’s 100th birthday—again features Mr. Ma. Copland’s Symphony No. 3 was the final work Bernstein conducted with the TMC Orchestra in 1990. Register free and view here.

8:30 pm ET: Sun Valley Music Festival presents Opening Concert. Program: Massenet’s Méditation from Thaïs with Juliana Athayde, violin and Orion Weiss, piano (recorded in Rochester), Bizet’s Suite from Carmen with Houston Symphony horns Jesse Clevenger, Ian Mayton, Brian Thomas, and William VerMeulen (recorded in Houston), and Beethoven’s Finale from Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67. The Festival Orchestra will be conducted by Alasdair Neale (recorded in San Francisco Conservatory and locations across North America). 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, has made a number of 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.

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. 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 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. Ethel Smyth’s The Wreckers, Richard Strauss’s Die Liebe aus Danae, and Korngold’s Das Wunder der Heliane, all conducted by Leon Botstein, are 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 throughout June and July 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.

NEW: BBC Philharmonic
The Music Room is a filmed online in-conversation series hosted by Chief Conductor Omer Meir Wellber that begins by exploring each of Beethoven’s nine symphonies. Each episode reflects Beethoven through various, out-of-the-ordinary aspects portrayed by special guests such as Beethoven himself, Napoleon, Freud, Schindler, Schiller, Goethe and the Immortal Beloved. Beethoven’s autopsy is also unearthed and analysed by audiologist Sonja Jones to explore the fascinating theories behind Beethoven’s infamous hearing loss. The conversations, filmed during lockdown, also feature musicians from the BBC Philharmonic taking an informal look at Beethoven’s music and exploring new ideas as well as a rare release of archive performances of Beethoven’s symphonies previously recorded at Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall. Explore here.

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.

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.

Classical Movements Vox Virtual
Classical Movements co-presents an online a cappella festival from August 22 – 29 featuring nine small professional vocal ensembles from around the world in daily livestreamed concerts, interviews and workshops. Line up includes Cantus (USA), Insingizi (Zimbabwe), Olga Vocal Ensemble (Iceland and Netherlands), Nairyan Vocal Ensemble (Armenia), The Swingles (United Kingdom), Les Itinérantes (France), Accent (International), Ensemble Rustavi (Georgia) and Anúna (Ireland). Over the course of the week, ensembles will livestream five free concerts, each featuring two ensembles, and one finale concert featuring all nine. All of the artists will livestream all concerts and interviews on their Facebook pages and YouTube channels on a daily basis during the festival. More details here.

The Cleveland Orchestra
The Cleveland Orchestra is offering archival videos, 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 a series of videos available online. Cliburn Watch Party relives some of the best moments of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, Cliburn Kids explores rhythm, storytelling, dance, and listening games in short (seven- to 10-minute), entertaining, and educational journeys. Cliburn Amateur Spotlight are performance videos submitted by the 72 who were accepted as competitors for the 2020 Cliburn International Amateur Piano Competition (rescheduled to 2022). View here.

Detroit Symphony Orchestra
The Detroit Symphony Orchestra has made its webcast archive available for free. 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. Explore here.

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 ** Explore here.

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

International Keyboard Institute & Festival

IKIF 2020, which was to have started July 12, has made the 15 three-hour evenings that were streamed in 2015 available for free online. Each video contains welcoming remarks, concert notes by David Dubal, pre-concert commentary, plus the concert and an intermission feature. There are 27 artists who perform over the course of the 15 videos and among the artists featured are Jerome Rose, Marc-André Hamelin, Alessio Bax, Jeffrey Swann, Alon Goldstein, Arnaldo Cohen, and Alexander Kobrin. Explore here.

Kennedy Center
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 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 to register, 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. Explore upcoming calendar here.

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. View streaming here and on demand here.

Los Angeles Master Chorale
Videos recorded as part of the “Offstage with the Los Angeles Master Chorale” series from April 24 to June 19 included interviews conducted by Artistic Director Grant Gershon and Associate Conductor Jenny Wong with notable performers—including special guests Reena Esmail, Morten Lauridsen, Anna Schubert, Peter Sellars, Derrick Spiva—as well as Master Chorale singers. Available on demand here.

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. 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 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.

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.

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 Philadelphia Digital Festival O
Over the last several weeks Opera Philadelphia have premiered an online digital festival of new and classic works. Four of the operas are available on demand through the summer. The Pedro Almodóvar-inspired staging of Rossini’s The Barber of Seville can be watched through June 29, while Daniel Bernard Roumain’s We Shall Not Be Moved, Lembit Beecher’s Sky On Swings (starring Frederica von Stade and Marietta Simpson), and Missy Mazzoli’s award-winning Breaking the Waves are available through August 31. Explore here.

Opera Saratoga: Connect Daily
In place of its planned 2020 Summer Festival, June, July and August will see Opera Saratoga feature 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 Barrie Kosky’s visually spectacular Moses und Aron, David McVicar’s superb Die Entführung aus dem Serail from Glyndebourne, and Deborah Warner’s thoughtful Death in Venice for English National Opera. View upcoming and 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.

San Francisco Symphony
The San Francisco Symphony’s MTT25: An Online Tribute was a 25-day digital event in honor of Michael Tilson Thomas’ (MTT) extraordinary 25-year tenure as Music Director. From June 4 through 28, the SFO released original and archival content daily, highlighting achievements, milestones, artistic projects, and relationships illustrative of MTT and the Orchestra’s dynamic 25-year partnership. View on demand here.

Santa Fe Opera
Songs from the Santa Fe Opera is a digital performance series—including fresh content and never-before-seen archival footage—celebrating the five originally scheduled operas that were to comprise the 2020 Summer Festival Season. Susan Graham hosts the Opening Night and a celebration of Rossini’s The Barber of Seville followed by other opera luminaries in later presentations. Then, from July 11 through August 1, viewers can tune in each Saturday evening to enjoy well-known arias by artists who were scheduled to grace the Santa Fe Opera stage, along with insights from conductors, directors and more. Pre-recorded from the Santa Fe Opera stage and in artist’s homes around the world, each video premieres at 9 pm ET and all activities are done in accordance with current safety guidelines.
Free to watch here and on demand 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.

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
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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 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 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.

April 10

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. Subscribe or trial for free and view in the Digital Concert Hall.

June 28

San Francisco Symphony Orchestra presented MTT25: An Online Tribute for Michael Tilson Thomas. Hosted by famed vocalists Audra McDonald and Susan Graham, the event featured contributions and tributes by musicians of the San Francisco Symphony and Chorus, an array of distinguished guest artists, and many surprises. View here.

June 30

Live At Carnegie Hall presented Russian pianist Daniil Trifonov discussing his career with fellow pianists Emanuel Ax and Sergei Babayan and the venue’s Executive and Artistic Director Sir Clive Gillinson. Interspersed with excerpts from Trifonov’s performances, one newly recorded at home and others previously captured at Carnegie Hall. On demand here.

**Highly recommended