MA's Free Guide to Free Streams, 6/15 - 6/22

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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 and critically acclaimed pianist Sir András Schiff in 2013 offered a brilliant and profound exploration of Bach. Piotr Anderszewski, regarded as one of the most outstanding musicians of his generation, performed the music of Beethoven and Janácek in 2014. View here.

1 pm ET: Trinity Church Wall Street presents Comfort at One. Choir of Trinity Wall Street and Trinity Baroque Orchestra perform Bach's cantatas Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen and Herbert Howells's Take him, Earth for Cherishing. View here and on demand here.

1 pm ET: IDAGIO Live presents Kirill Gerstein’s #ViewAcrossTheKeyboard. Join Kirill Gerstein in 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.

Tuesday, June 16

8 am ET: Wigmore Hall Lunchtime Concerts presents Alina Ibragimova and Kristian Bezuidenhout. The duo presents Beethoven’s uplifting and beguiling “Spring” Sonata of 1801 alongside Schubert’s A minor Violin Sonata—a masterpiece of melancholy and melodic elegance. View here. LIVE

10 am ET: Vienna Staatsoper streams Janácek’s The Makropoulos Case (Performance of December 20, 2015). Conductor: Jakub Hruša, director: Peter Stein, with Laura Aikin (Emilia Marty), Ludovít Ludha (Albert Gregor), Thomas Ebenstein (Vítek), Margarita Gritskova (Krista), Markus Marquardt (Jaroslav Prus). A classic production of an underrated masterpiece. Sign up for free and view here. **

12 pm ET: Orchestra of St. Luke's presents Bach at Home. Program includes harpsichordist Pieter Hantaï performing a selection of the Goldberg Variations (filmed in June 2019); soprano Amanda Forsythe performing “Bist du bei mir,” (filmed in May 2020), and St. John Passion: “Zerfliesse, mein Herze” (filmed 2016 with Apollo’s Fire); OSL violinist Krista Bennion Feeney performing Violin Partita No. 3: Preludio (2014); lutenist Sylvain Bergeron performing Violin Partita No. 3: Gavotte en Rondeau (April 2020); harpsichordist Jean Rondeau performing Harpsichord Concerto No.1, and J.C. Bach Harpsichord Concerto, W C73 (released in 2017); Paul Taylor Dance Company performing Junction (including a performance by Paul Taylor) performed to excerpts from the Cello Suites (released in 1966). View here.

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

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

2 pm ET: Concertgebouw Amsterdam presents Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 1. With Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, Gordan Nikolic, concert master, Lucas Jussen, piano. View here.

2 pm ET: Live with Carnegie Hall presents Michael Feinstein with a program dedicated to the music of Irving Berlin and featuring Broadway stars Cheyenne Jackson, Kelli O'Hara, and Tony Yazbeck. With a catalog of more than 1,000 songs—including such classics as “Anything You Can Do (I Can Do Better)” and “Alexander’s Ragtime Band”—Berlin is one of the most prolific contributors to the Great American Songbook. Michael Feinstein leads this lively episode of music and conversation. View here.

5 pm ET: Renée Fleming presents Music and Mind Live. The soprano and arts and health advocate talks to scientists and practitioners working at the intersection of music, neuroscience, and healthcare, including a live Q&A from viewers. This episode features “Using Music for Health and Wellbeing during COVID-19” with Wendy Magee, PhD (Temple University); Tom Sweitzer, MMT, MT-BC (A Place to Be). View on Fleming’s Facebook page and on demand on the Kennedy Center website.

7:30 pm ET: Nightly Met Opera Streams presents Rossini’s Semiramide. Conducted by Maurizio Benini; starring Angela Meade, Elizabeth DeShong, Javier Camarena, Ildar Abdrazakov, and Ryan Speedo Green. Transmitted live on March 10, 2018. View here and for 24 hours.

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

Wednesday, June 17

8 am ET: Wigmore Hall Lunchtime Concerts presents Ailish Tynan & Iain Burnside. The Irish operatic soprano and her regular pianist partner present a characteristically wide-ranging program, including Herbert Hughes arrangements of Irish songs and Grieg’s stormy Six Songs. Their finale is a song that has recently become popular as an anthem to staff of the NHS working on the front line against the Coronavirus pandemic. View here. LIVE

12 pm ET: IDAGIO presents Mahler Symphony No. 9. 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 12: Xuefei Yang. The gifted guitarist returns for a performance with Wu Man in which they each take one of the two parts in Bach’s Two-Part Invention No. 8 in F major (this performance was rescheduled from June 10). View here.

12 pm ET: Staatskapelle Dresden presents Brahms & Wagner. Christian Thielemann conducts Brahms’s Symphonies Nos.1, and 3, as well as Wagner’s Rienzi Overture. View here and available for 48 hours.

12 pm ET: Hanns Eisler Academy Berlin presents Kirill Gerstein in an online seminar with composer Thomas Adès entitled “Live Cultures.” The discussion’s departure point is revisiting musical material, by Adès and others, in original works and transcriptions. To date, Gerstein has been joined by Andreas Staier, Nicolas Hodges, Paul Boghossian, Claudio Martínez Mehner, and Brad Mehldau. Register here for the free Zoom seminar with further information here.

1 pm ET: The Greene Space presents Ever-Greenes: Revisit WQXR’s Celebration of Joplin at 150. An encore video stream of the 2018 commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the birth of the “King of Ragtime.” Featuring musical performances by Roy Eaton, Jerron “Blind Boy” Paxton and more. Hosted by pianist Jade Simmons. View here.

1 pm ET: Trinity Church Wall Street presents Comfort at One. NOVUS NY performs Mahler’s Symphony No. 4, Julian Wachner’s Gaudé an LB Anniversary for Large Orchestra written in homage to Bernstein, and Copland’s Connotations. View here and on demand here.

1 pm ET: Vienna Staatsoper streams Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra (Performance of May 13, 2018). Conductor: Evelino Pidò, director: Peter Stein, with Thomas Hampson (Simon Boccanegra), Dmitry Belosselskiy (Fiesco), Marina Rebeka (Amelia), Francesco Meli (Gabriele Adorno). Sign up for free and 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.

2:15 ET: NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra presents Mendelssohn, Lindberg and Schoenberg. The Elbphilharmonie Orchestra performs in a Corona-reduced line-up with Pekka Kuusisto, violin, conducted by the 24-year-old Finn Klaus Mäkelä. Program: Mendelssohn’s String Symphony No. 10, Magnus Lindberg’s Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 1, and Schoenberg’s Transfigured Night (Revised version for String Orchestra). View here.

7:30 pm ET: Nightly Met Opera Streams presents Gluck’s Iphigénie en Tauride. Conducted by Patrick Summers; starring Susan Graham, Plácido Domingo, and Paul Groves. Transmitted live on February 26, 2011. View here and for 24 hours.

Thursday, June 18

8 am ET: Wigmore Hall Lunchtime Concerts presents Michael Collins & Michael McHale. Collins continues to have a distinguished career as a soloist and educator, as well as more recently becoming a highly regarded conductor. His program ends with Poulenc’s expressive sonata of 1962. View here. LIVE

9 am ET: Vienna Staatsoper streams Janácek’s Kátja Kabanová (Performance of April 27, 2017). Conductor: Tomáš Netopil, director: André Engel, with Angela Denoke (Kátja), Misha Didyk (Boris), Jane Henschel (Kabanicha), Leonardo Navarro (Tichon), Thomas Ebenstein (Kudrjasch). Sign up for free and view here.

1 pm ET: IDAGIO presents Thursdays with Thomas. Join Thomas Hampson in conversation with colleagues, friends, and other major personalities of the classical music world. View here and later on demand.

12:30 pm ET: Vienna Staatsoper presents Michael Schade 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 Rhiannon Giddens with Francesco Turrisi. Rhiannon Giddens is one of the most vibrant musicians of our time. Her spectacular banjo and fiddle playing, passionate vocals, and perceptive songwriting are all wedded to a boundless musical curiosity that explores untold stories and reclaims American musical traditions for our time. View here.

2 pm ET: Megaron Athens presents The Athens State Orchestra & Canadian Brass. Program: J. S. Bach’s Little’ Fugue in G minor, Enrique Crespo’s Vals peruano (Peruvian Waltz), Jeff Tyzik’s New York Cityscape, Beatles Tribute: Penny Lane, Blackbird, Come Together…. With Phaedra Yannelou, conductor. View here.

7 pm ET: Detroit Symphony Orchestra Watch Parties presents Sounds of Now. Program: John Storgårds conducts Outi Tarkiainen’s Midnight Sun Variations and Rautavaara’s Cantus Arcticus (Concerto for Birds), Leonard Slatkin conducts Nkeiru Okoye’s Voices Shouting Out. View here and later on demand.

7:30 pm ET: Nightly Met Opera Streams presents Verdi’s La Forza del Destino. Conducted by James Levine; starring Leontyne Price, Giuseppe Giacomini, Leo Nucci, and Bonaldo Giaiotti. Transmitted live on March 24, 1984. View here and for 48 hours.

8 pm ET: The Philadelphia Orchestra presents Kimmel Center Opening Concert. Originally performed in December 2001. Wolfgang Sawallisch Conductor, Emanuel Ax Piano, Itzhak Perlman Violin, Yo-Yo Ma Cello, The Philadelphia Singers Chorale. Program: Kernis’s Color Wheel—world premiere—Philadelphia Orchestra commission, Beethoven’s Triple Concerto, for piano, violin, cello, and orchestra, Ravel Suite No. 2 from Daphnis and Chloé. 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 Margaret Gawrysiak. Familiar to Seattle Opera for scene-stealing turns as Berta in The Barber of Seville (2017) and Marcellina in The Marriage of Figaro (2016), Gawrysiak made her McCaw Hall debut in The Consul (2014), and was featured most recently as Madame Larina in Eugene Onegin (2020). Curating the recital as “a set of songs from a day in isolation,” “Maggie the Mezzo” will fill her program with great music (by Stephen Foster, Francis Poulenc, Vaughn Williams, Edward Elgar, Kurt Weill, and Stephen Sondheim) and plenty of personality. View here.

Friday, June 19

3 am ET: Carnegie Hall Live & Medici.TV present Valery Gergiev and the Münchner Philharmoniker performing Brahms’s Violin Concerto in D with Leonidas Kavakos, plus Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5 and works by Widmann and Enescu (original broadcast date: October 26, 2019). View here and available for 72 hours.

8 am ET: Semperoper Dresden streams Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana. Conductor Christian Thielemann, director: Philipp Stölzl, with Jonas Kaufmann (Turiddu), Liudmyla Monastyrska (Santuzza), Ambrogio Maestri (Alfio), Annalisa Stroppa (Lola), Stefania Toczyska (Mamma Lucia). Recording of the performance in the Grosses Festspielhaus Salzburg, March 2015. View here until June 21.

8 am ET: Wigmore Hall Lunchtime Concerts presents Allan Clayton & James Baillieu. Clayton and his pianist partner begin their program with one of Schumann’s finest song cycles, a setting of 12 poems by Justinus Kerner, followed by a selection of works by British composers. View here. LIVE

9 am ET: Vienna Staatsoper streams Verdi’s Otello (Performance of March 18, 2018). Conductor: Graeme Jenkins, director: Christine Mielitz, with Roberto Alagna (Otello), Dalibor Jenis (Jago), Antonio Poli (Cassio), Aleksandra Kurzak (Desdemona). Sign up for free and view here.

10 am ET: Sphinx Organization presents Lift Every Voice and Sing. The song, written initially as a poem by James Weldon Johnson in 1900 and set to music by his brother J. Rosamond Johnson in 1905, is often referred to as the Black national anthem. The Sphinx EXIGENCE ensemble performs this new arrangement by Joel Thompson to serve as a tool of awareness and support in light of the multitude of current injustices amongst Black citizens around the world. This performance is in direct response to the deep injustices that have been dividing our world and the global pandemic that has affected communities of color in a disturbingly disproportionate manner. View here.

12 pm ET: Daniel Hope presents Hope@Home on Tour. As Germany relaxes its lockdown the award-winning violinist takes his popular livestreamed TV series on the road. This weekend Hope visits a pair of locations in Southern and Eastern Germany, neither of which is open to the public. On Saturday he joins baritone Thomas Hampson in the villa where Richard Strauss composed Elektra, Der Rosenkavalier and other masterworks, and on Sunday he performs music by C.P.E. Bach and Oscar Peterson with German popstar Tim Bendzko at the “Muschelgrotte,” a marble palace grotto in Potsdam that was founded by Friedrich William II in 1787. View here.

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

1 pm ET: National Sawdust presents Masterclass: Anthony Roth Costanzo. A vocal masterclass with the American countertenor. View here.

1 pm ET: Sphinx Organization presents Elegy: In Memoriam, Stephen Lawrence. An arrangement of the original work composed in February 1999 by Philip Herbert as a gesture of empathy after watching the shocking news coverage of the tragic murder of Stephen Lawrence, a black British teenager from Plumstead, South East London murdered in a racially motivated attack while waiting for the bus. The Sphinx Virtuosi performs this work in remembrance of Stephen and so many others who have been taken from this world unjustly. This performance is in direct response to the deep injustices that have been dividing our world and the global pandemic that has affected communities of color in a disturbingly disproportionate manner. View here.

1 pm ET: Staatsoper Unter den Linden presents Lieder Recital. The performance will take place on the stage of the currently closed Staatsoper Unter den Linden. Music by Mahler, Wolf, Schoenberg, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, and Dvorák. With Anna Samuil, Natalia Skrycka, Katharina Kammerloher, Stephan Rügamer, Roman Trekel, Jan Martiník, and René Pape. View here and on demand “for a few days”. LIVE

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

2 pm ET: Royal Opera House presents Mozart’s The Magic Flute. David McVicar’s classic production embraces both the seriousness and comedy of Mozart’s glorious opera, transporting us to a fantastical world of dancing animals, flying machines, and dazzling starry skies. The setting provides a wonderful backdrop for Mozart’s kaleidoscopic score, from the Queen of the Night’s coloratura fireworks to Tamino and Pamina’s lyrical love duets and Papageno’s hearty, folksong-like arias. View here and until July 3.

2:15 pm ET: Concertgebouworkest presents Tchaikovsky with Semyon Bychkov. Bychkov will lead the socially distanced Concertgebouworkest in Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5, which was first performed in November 1888, the same month in which the Concertgebouworkest gave its very first subscription concert. View here. LIVE

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.”

4 pm ET: Martha Graham Dance Company presents Immediate Tragedy. The ongoing digital dance collaboration by Martha Graham Dance Company, Los Angeles-based Wild Up music collective, and The Soraya is inspired by archival remnants of Martha Graham’s Immediate Tragedy, a solo she created in 1937 in response to the Spanish Civil War. Graham created it in collaboration with composer Henry Cowell, but it was never filmed and has been considered lost for decades. Drawing on the common experience of today’s immediate tragedy—the global pandemic—the 22 artists creating the project are collaborating from locations across the U.S. and Europe using a variety of technologies to coordinate movement, music, and digital design. In its new iteration, dancers and musicians are recorded from the safety of their homes. View here and repeated June 20 at 11:30 am/2:30 pm ET here.

7:30 pm ET: Live with Carnegie Hall presents A Juneteenth Celebration. Commemorating the nation’s true independence—the day dating back to the end of the American Civil War in 1865 when all members of the newly formed Union were finally declared free. More than 400 years after the first Africans were brought to the English colonies, the fight for equality continues. Hosted by Rev. Dr. James A. Forbes Jr. and featuring music and commentary from the 2019 Juneteenth event at Carnegie Hall, this episode will celebrate the importance of this historic day and acknowledge the long road still ahead. View here.

7:30 pm ET: Nightly Met Opera Streams presents Verdi’s La Forza del Destino. [Repeated from Thursday in honor of Juneteenth.] Conducted by James Levine; starring Leontyne Price, Giuseppe Giacomini, Leo Nucci, and Bonaldo Giaiotti. Transmitted live on March 24, 1984. View here and for 24 hours.

8 pm ET: Live From Lincoln Center presents James Lapine’s Act One. Writer and director James Lapine (Sunday in the Park with George, Into the Woods) adapts the memoir of Broadway legend Moss Hart for the stage, rendering a funny and touching portrait of the artist as a young man. The celebrated cast of this 2014 production by Lincoln Center Theater includes Tony Award-winners Tony Shalhoub, Andrea Martin, and Santino Fontana. View here.

Saturday, June 20

4:30 am ET: Paul Winter presents 25th Summer Solstice Celebration. Traditionally, this event has been held at New York City’s Cathedral of St. John the Divine but will now take place in the hills of northwest Connecticut, in Winter’s barn. Joining Paul’s soprano sax will be Steve Gorn on bansuri (the traditional flute of India), and Jeff Boratko, playing bassoon and percussion, along with the recorded participation of members of the Paul Winter Consort, as well as Ray Nagem playing the organ of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. View here.

9 am ET: Vienna Staatsoper streams Verdi’s Macbeth (performance of May 14, 2019). Conductor: James Conlon, director: Christian Räth, with George Petean (Macbeth), Tatiana Serjan (Lady Macbeth), Ferruccio Furlanetto (Banquo), Jinxu Xiahou (Macduff), Lukhanyo Moyake (Malcolm). Sign up for free and view here.

12 pm ET: Daniel Hope presents Hope@Home on Tour. As Germany relaxes its lockdown the award-winning violinist takes his popular livestreamed TV series on the road. This weekend Hope visits a pair of locations in Southern and Eastern Germany, neither of which is open to the public. On Saturday he joins baritone Thomas Hampson in the villa where Richard Strauss composed Elektra, Der Rosenkavalier and other masterworks, and on Sunday he performs music by C.P.E. Bach and Oscar Peterson with German popstar Tim Bendzko at the “Muschelgrotte,” a marble palace grotto in Potsdam that was founded by Friedrich William II in 1787. View here.

12 pm ET: Pop Up Pipa with Wu Man: Episode 13: Duo Barocco. Wu Man’s video series concludes with early music / traditional Italian ensemble Duo Barocco. The group comprises lutenist and baroque guitarist Luca Marconato and percussionist Andrea Piccioni, who appeared on a previous episode of the series. Wu Man and Duo Barocco perform baroque composer Gaspar Sanz’s Zarabanda. View here.

12:30 pm ET: Vienna Staatsoper presents Juan Diego Flórez Recital. The scheduled opera will resume afterwards; concert is estimated to last 75 minutes. Sign up for free and view here. LIVE

1 pm ET: San Francisco Opera presents Richard Strauss’s Salome (Production from 2009). A co-production with Opera Theatre of Saint Louis and Opéra de Montréal, directed and choreographed by Séan Curran with production designs by Bruno Schwengl. German dramatic soprano Nadja Michael sings the title role with bass-baritone Greer Grimsley as the object of her desire, Jochanaan (John the Baptist). The cast also stars tenor Kim Begley as Herod, mezzo-soprano Irina Mishura as Herodias and tenor Garrett Sorenson as Narraboth. San Francisco Opera’s former Music Director Nicola Luisotti leads the San Francisco Opera Orchestra. View here and until midnight (PT) the following day.

1 pm ET: Staatsoper Unter den Linden presents Opera Gala. The performance will take place on the stage of the currently closed Staatsoper Unter den Linden. Arias from Mozart to Puccini. With Olga Peretyatko, Elsa Dreisig, Anna Prohaska, Evelin Novak, Slavka Zamecnikova, Ekaterina Siurina, Marina Prudenskaya, Charles Castronovo, Michael Volle, Grigory Shkarupa and René Pape. View here and on demand “for a few days”. LIVE

2 pm ET: Mariinsky presents White Nights: Opera Gala. The Mariinsky will be performing for 500 people for the first time since March 19. Temperature will be taken at the entrance and masks and gloves are mandatory. The hall will be cleaned and disinfected between the concerts. This will be the start of the annual “White Nights” festival, which was supposed to open on May 17. The Mariinsky orchestra will be conducted by Valery Gergiev with soloists Irina Churilova, Anna Kiknadze, Olga Pudova, Ekaterina Semenchuk, Tatiana Serjan, Alexei Markov, Yevgeny Nikitin, Mikhail Petrenko, Sergei Skorokhodov, and Vladislav Sulimsky in a program of arias by Rossini, Giordano, Ponchielli, Wagner, Massenet, Puccini, Delibes, and Tchaikovsky. All performers will have been tested. Tickets available here. View here.

2:15 pm ET: Berlin Philharmonic presents A Review of the Waldbühne. Instead of this year’s live concert at the Waldbühne, Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg will present a review of the history of the Waldbühne concerts since 1984. Petra Gute will be joined by BPO musicians Sarah Willis, Daishin Kashimoto, and Philipp Bohnen to reveal previously unknown stories about the performances. The broadcast in the Digital Concert Hall is free of charge and will then be available until the start of the new season.

2:30 pm ET: Royal Opera House presents Live from Covent Garden. A celebration of ballet and opera, this is the second live performance since the Royal Opera House closed its doors to the public on March 17. The concert will feature a performance of Schoenberg’s reduction of Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde with tenor David Butt Philip, mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly, and soloists from the Royal Opera House Orchestra. Principal dancer of The Royal Ballet Vadim Muntagirov will perform Frederick Ashton’s Dance of the Blessed Spirits. Set to a lyrical score from Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice, the solo was initially created in 1978 for Anthony Dowell and is a showcase of balance and poise. View here. LIVE

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 the 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 Sugar Vendil’s Simple Tasks 2.

7:30 pm ET: Nightly Met Opera Streams presents Philip Glass’s Akhnaten. Conducted by Karen Kamensek; starring Dísella Lárusdóttir, J'Nai Bridges, Anthony Roth Costanzo, Aaron Blake, Will Liverman, Richard Bernstein, Zachary James. Transmitted live on November 23, 2019. View here and for 24 hours.

7:30 pm ET: The Guggenheim presents Click Clock - Tick Tock. The 93-year-old jazz legend Dick Hyman joins forces with his grandson, designer and artist Adam Charlap-Hyman, and Metropolitan Opera star Anthony Roth Costanzo to create a surreal meditation on time during quarantine, with intricate paper cuts and ecstatic musical performances. With Adam Charlap Hymann (Paper Cutter) and Zack Winokur (Director). Works & Process is the Guggenheim’s Virtual Commission Series. View here.

8 pm ET: The Philadelphia Orchestra presents HearNOW: An At-Home Gala. Hosted by Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the hour-long event will feature performances by The Philadelphia Orchestra, individual members of the Orchestra, and a lineup of guest artists including Wynton Marsalis, Steve Martin, Nicola Benedetti, Lang Lang, and more. The event will also include a world premiere commission by composer Valerie Coleman. Through a mix of live and pre-recorded elements, the virtual gala will showcase the Orchestra’s exceptional artistry, deep civic purpose, and enduring relevance. View here and until June 22.

8 pm ET: Chamber Music Society of Detroit presents Zuill Bailey and Natasha Paremski. Zuill Bailey’s rare combination of celebrated artistry, technical wizardry and engaging personality has secured his place as one of the most sought-after cellists today. Together with one of his frequent collaborators, Russian born pianist Natasha Paremski, he performs Chopin’s three works for cello and piano. That the cello was Chopin’s favorite instrument after the piano is clear—the composer wrote only five chamber works in his lifetime, and three are for this combination. The Sonata, written on a grand, virtuosic scale, was one of Chopin’s late works, and his last published piece. View here.

Sunday, June 21

5 am ET: Vienna Philharmonic presents Schubert and Strauss. The Vienna Philharmonic Matinee with Franz Welser-Möst can be enjoyed live on the streaming platform Fidelio in Austria, Germany and Switzerland and, for the first time worldwide via the IDAGIO Global Concert Hall. The program includes Richard Strauss’s Four Symphonic Interludes from the Opera Intermezzo and Schubert’s Symphony No. 3 in D. Cost: €9.90. View here and on demand.

11 am ET: Chicago Symphony Orchestra presents Virtual Day of Music. From 11:00 am to 7:30 pm ET the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Riccardo Muti celebrate international Make Music Day. Videos featuring CSO musicians and special guests will premiere each half hour with a total of 18 new videos featured as part of this program. Full schedule here. View here and on demand.

12 pm ET: Glyndebourne Open House presents Handel’s Rinaldo. Christian knight Rinaldo loves Almirena, but she has been kidnapped by the scheming sorceress Armida. A magical battle of wits and wills ensues between Rinaldo’s Crusaders and the Saracen army, as the fate not just of two lovers but two nations hangs in the balance. Robert Carsen’s exuberant schoolroom staging is well on its way to becoming a Glyndebourne classic, bringing out all the energy and excess in the young Handel’s first opera for the London stage. Baroque specialist Ottavio Dantone conducts, with fearless contralto Sonia Prina in the title role. She does battle with Brenda Rae’s explosive Armida and Luca Pisaroni as Argante. View here.

12 pm ET: Daniel Hope presents Hope@Home on Tour. As Germany relaxes its lockdown the award-winning violinist takes his popular livestreamed TV series on the road. This weekend Hope visits a pair of locations in Southern and Eastern Germany, neither of which is open to the public. On Saturday he joins baritone Thomas Hampson in the villa where Richard Strauss composed Elektra, Der Rosenkavalier and other masterworks, and on Sunday he performs music by C.P.E. Bach and Oscar Peterson with German popstar Tim Bendzko at the “Muschelgrotte,” a marble palace grotto in Potsdam that was founded by Friedrich William II in 1787. View here.

12 pm ET: Vienna Staatsoper streams Verdi’s Don Carlo (Performance of June 21, 2017). Conductor: Myung-Whun Chung, director: Daniele Abbado, with Ferruccio Furlanetto (Filippo II.), Rámon Vargas (Don Carlo), Plácido Domingo (Rodrigo), Krassimira Stoyanova (Elisabetta), Elena Zhidkova (Eboli), Alexandru Moisiuc (Il Grande Inquisitore). Sign up for free and view here.

1 pm ET: OperaVision presents OperaVision Summer Gala. Determined to re-enter theatres to capture live music-making again, OperaVision presents a midsummer night’s Gala. From the stages of eight leading opera companies, intrepid artists perform an individually curated program hosted by Kasper Holten from the Royal Danish Theatre in Copenhagen. Program includes: Dutch National Opera (Eva-Maria Westbroek, Thomas Oliemans), Komische Oper Berlin (Alma Sadé, Barrie Kosky), Glyndebourne (Danielle de Niese, Allan Clayton), Teatro Real Madrid (Damián del Castillo, Gerardo López, Ruth Iniesta, Patricia Bardon), Opéra-Comique de Paris (Jodie Devos, Cyrille Dubois), Teatro dell’Opera di Roma (Rosa Feola, Roberto Frontali), Royal Swedish Opera (Nina Stemme, Alan Gilbert), Polish National Opera (Andrzej Filonczyk). View here.

3 pm ET: Boston Pops presents Heroic Performances. Enjoy a rare peek back into the archives with Keith Lockhart's first Evening at Pops television show. Not seen since it aired in 1995, it’s shared here in honor of Keith Lockhart’s 25th anniversary as conductor of the Boston Pops. The orchestra is joined by soprano Sylvia McNair and Broadway singer Mandy Patinkin, with special tribute appearances by conductor laureate John Williams and the legendary Doc Severinsen. View here and on demand for 45 days.

3 pm ET: Detroit Symphony Orchestra Watch Parties presents Slatkin and Saint-Saëns. Leonard Slatkin conducts Saint-Saëns’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor with George Li, piano and Saint-Saëns’s Symphony No. 3 in C minor, Op. 78 (Organ Symphony). View here and later on demand.

3:30 pm ET: Ravenna Festival presents Luigi Cherubini Youth Orchestra. Conducted by Riccardo Muti with Rosa Feola, soprano. Program: Scriabin’s Rêverie Op. 24, Mozart’s Exsultate, jubilate, K.165, Et incarnatus est from the Mass in C minor, K. 427, and Symphony No. 41 in C, K. 551, "Jupiter". View here.

5 pm ET: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center presents Front Row: Gloria Chien. Enjoy an HD concert experience featuring pianist Gloria Chien, plus see inside her life during the pandemic and attend a live Q&A session. Program: Field’s Nocturne No. 2 in C minor, Liszt’s Grand duo concertant sur la romance de ‘Le Marin’ for Violin and Piano (with Benjamin Beilman, violin), Mendelssohn’s Quartet in C minor for Piano, Violin, Viola, and Cello, Op. 1 (with Sean Lee, violin; Richard O’Neill, viola; Narek Hakhnazaryan, cello). View here and for 72 hours.

5 pm ET: Music on the Rebound and International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) host The World Wide Heart Chant. IONE, Claire Chase, and Raquel Acevedo Klein lead a global performance of the late Pauline Oliveros’s Heart Chant as part of Make Music Day, a global celebration inviting all ages and skill levels to learn and perform music on the summer solstice. The Heart Chant is one of composer Pauline Oliveros’s “Deep Listening” meditations, her practice of “listening in every possible way to everything possible, to hear no matter what you are doing.” Musicians and non-musicians alike are invited to join via Zoom. Initially written in response to the September 11 terrorist attacks, this performance joins hearts, minds, and voices with Black Lives Matter in unity with the global initiative to redress social injustice and institute lasting moral reform. RSVP here for Zoom call-in information.

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

7 pm ET: Long Beach Opera Community Conversation: To IG or Not to IG (Opera in the Age of Social Media). With Aaron Crouch, Dr. Derrell Acon, Zach Finkelstein, Catalina Cuervo, Simon Barrad, Kseniia Polstiankina. 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 bass Soloman Howard. Future guests will include J’Nai Bridges, Janai Brugger and more. View here.

7:30 pm ET: Nightly Met Opera Streams presents Philip Glass’s Satyagraha. Conducted by Dante Anzolini; starring Rachelle Durkin, Richard Croft, Kim Josephson, and Alfred Walker. Transmitted live on November 19, 2011. View here and for 24 hours.

Monday, June 22

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

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

12:20 pm ET: Vienna Staatsoper presents Staatsoper Ensemble Slavic Repertoire Concert. The scheduled opera will resume afterwards; concert is estimated to last 75 minutes. Sign up for free and view here. LIVE

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

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

Artists and Organizations Offering Free Content

The following are all accessible during the coronavirus pandemic:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

OperaVision
OperaVision offers livestreams of operas available for free and online for six months. Previous offerings include Don Giovanni from Finnish National Opera 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.

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