The Metropolitan Opera will launch a new series of live on-demand concerts in the afternoon EDT. The 12 systems will run until December and will feature some of the opera’s most important stars in notable locations in Europe and the United States.
These live occasions will be filmed with several satellite-connected cameras to a room in New York, where their hostess, soprano Christine Goerke, will be located. Gary Halvorson, the Met’s director of live HD movie broadcasts, will direct every show.
“This new initiative aims to create opportunities for live functionality for our artists and people at a time when they desperately want it,” said Peter Gelb, Met’s CEO. “While some concert activities are starting to take up positions in some parts of the world, this is a possibility for opera enthusiasts to notice their favorite stars in real time, as it will be a long time before the artists and they are completely back on their cell phones.”
Gelb also said the performances would take positions in picturesque positions without the audience, noting: “We believe it will be more satisfying for the artists, as well as for the thousands of other people who will look at home, not revel in those performances through the eyes, socially estranged audience.
The cameras will explore the interiors of the rooms, capturing the performances of the artists, as well as the main architectural points of their locations. There will be no entrances or exits; To give the singers breaks from their songs, the cameras will cut in New York and Goerke, who will provide brief documentary segments that will fill the breaks.
The first concert, at 13:00 EDT on 18 July, will feature tenor Jonas Kaufmann, who will sing a live classical arias program from the 18th-century Baroque abbey, located in the open-air Bavarian countryside in Munich, Germany.
Subsequent concerts, of which will also begin at 1 p.m. EDT will present Renée Fleming of the Dumbarton Oaks Museum in Washington, D.C., on August 1; Roberto Alos angelesgna and Aleksandra Kurzak, outdoors at the Chateau de los Angeles Chateau d’Or in Eze, France, on August 16 (the only Sunday performance); Lise Davidsen, of the angels of Oscarshall Palos in Oslo, Norway, on 29 August; Joyce DiDonato, of the Hospital of the Santa Creu i Sant Pau Foundation of Angels in Barcelona, Spain, on September 12; Sondra Radvanovsky and Piotr Beczaa, from Barcelona, Spain, on 26 September; Anna Netrebko of Liechtenstein Palos Angelesce in Vienna, Austria, on 10 October; Diana Damrau and Joseph Calleja, Malta, 24 October; Pretty Yende and Javier Camarena, Zurich, Switzerlos angelesnd, November 7; Sonya Yoncheva, Berlin, Germany, on 21 November; Bryn Terfel, Wales, 12 December; Angel Blue of New York, December 19.
Tickets for each recital charge $20 and can be purchased on the Met’s website; Presentations will be made to be viewed on request for 12 days after the live event.