Carmen Carmen

From the Berlin Staatsoper, a special live telecast of Carmen featuring Anita Rachvelishvili and Michael Fabiano, conducted by Daniel Barenboim.

Don Giovanni Don Giovanni

Live from the Finnish National Opera!

Madama Butterfly Madama Butterfly

From the Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège. The stream goes live at 2:30 PM.

Broadcast: Das Rheingold Broadcast: Das Rheingold

Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts this live performance from the Finnish National Opera.

Broadcast: Die Zauberflöte Broadcast: Die Zauberflöte

The Glyndebourne Festival production of Mozart’s comic saga is telecast beginning at 12:30 PM New York time.

Broadcast: Salome Broadcast: Salome

Marlis Petersen is the obsessed princess.

Broadcast: Carmen

The Royal Opera’s production of Bizet’s Carmen will be livestreamed for free starting at 1:30 PM today.

Broadcast: Nabucco Broadcast: Nabucco

Live from the Zurich Opera, a new production of Verdi’s Biblical melodrama. The telecast begins at 1:00 PM.

Broadcast: La fanciulla del West Broadcast: La fanciulla del West

There’s a live video webcast of Puccini’s western from the Bayerische Staatsoper starting at 2:00 PM EDT.

Broadcast: Der Prinz von Homburg Broadcast: Der Prinz von Homburg

The rarely-heard Hans Werner Henze opera is telecast live from the Staatsoper Stuttgart beginning at 2:20 PM.

Broadcast: La bohème Broadcast: La bohème

Live from the Komische Oper in Berlin: the premiere of Barrie Kosky‘s new production of La bohème.

Broadcast: Richard Tucker Gala Broadcast: Richard Tucker Gala

The annual starry event (featuring 2018 Award winner Christian Van Horn) will be webcast live at 6:00 PM.

Requiem for a dream Requiem for a dream

A live telecast of Die Tote Stadt from the Berlin Komische Oper!

Telecast: Salome Telecast: Salome

For those of you who need a bit of a break from Bayreuth, may La Cieca suggest a telecast of Strauss’s Salome?

Telecast: La Traviata Telecast: La Traviata

Michael Fabiano and Sonya Yoncheva star in Great Performances at the Met’s telecast of La Traviata tonight at 9:00 PM.

Träume Center Träume Center

This is Ring week here at parterre.com, cher public.

Planks, for the memory Planks, for the memory

The Robert Lepage production of the Ring cycle will be shown complete (including the now de rigueur fifth part of the pentalogy, Wagner’s Dream) September 11-14 on PBS

The girl next door The girl next door

Andrea Andermann, the producer who brought you Tosca in the Settings and at the Times of Tosca, Traviata in Paris, and Rigoletto in Mantova, is preparing for a telecast of La Cenerentola.

Erlösung dem Erlöser!

La Cieca has just heard that the acclaimed production of Parsifal by Stefan Herheim will be telecast and filmed for DVD release next summer in Bayreuth.

rebel without a cooze

Although the staging of the Met’s Saturday afternoon’s production of Salome will remain unchanged (i.e., Karita Mattila intends to jam out with her clam out) the HD cameras will demurely divert their lenses at the climactic moment of the Dance of the Seven Veils.  According to Culture Monster, instead of the Full Mattila, the video…

chevelure

During an intermission at the Metropolitan Opera’s opening night gala (was that only last week?), Susan Graham interviews Ramón Vargas and Renée Fleming. Miss Fleming’s wig, we are told, is made of yak hair, but what’s Susie’s excuse?

out there in the dark

La Cieca is putting her entire nest egg into popcorn futures, since next season opera lovers will rarely emerge from their local movie palace. The Met will do an astonishing 11 HD simulcasts during the 2008-2009 season.  Monday, September 22, 2008: Opening Night Gala starring the astonishingly well-preserved Renée Fleming in fully staged performances of La Traviata (Act…

chest

“Qual petto percota non vegga il pugnal!

my white knight

Definitive barihunk Nathan Gunn (center) will play Lancelot in a semistaged concert of Lerner and Loewe’s musical Camelot at Avery Fisher Hall May 7-10. Additional hunkiness will be provided by Gabriel Byrne (Arthur) and Marc Kudisch (Sir Lionel) and the diva quotient may be filled by Marin Mazzie as Guenevere. The New York Philharmonic presentation…