Free Met Player Selections for National Opera Week
November 13, 2009
Celebrate National Opera Week with free highlights on Met Player—the online streaming service that offers more than 250 performances on demand. From November 13 to 22, in honor of this nationwide celebration of opera sponsored by Opera America, the Met will spotlight three different preview clips each day. Visit metplayer.org to watch and listen on your computer. No login, registration, or credit card is required.
Click "play" on any of the three clips in the orange box that says "Experience Met Player". First-time users may be required to download the Move Media Player to access the content. Please visit Met Player's FAQs/Help page for more information.
Below is the schedule of free clips that will be available each day by noon (ET) beginning on Friday, November 13:
November 13 – 15:
Salome (Strauss)
“Ah! Du wolltest mich nicht deinen Mund küssen lassen”
Karita Mattila; Patrick Summers
Performance Date: 10/11/2008
Madama Butterfly (Puccini)
“Vogliatemi bene”
Patricia Racette, Marcello Giordani; Patrick Summers
Performance Date: 3/7/2009
Aida (Verdi)
“Qui Radames verra…O patria mia”
Leontyne Price; James Levine
Performance Date: 1/3/1985
November 16:
Lucia di Lammermoor (Donizetti)
“Orrida è questa notte”
Piotr Beczala, Mariusz Kwiecien; Marco Armiliato
Performance Date: 2/7/2009
The First Emperor (Dun)
“Father, can this be the Shadow?”
Elizabeth Futral, Plácido Domingo, Hao Jiang Tian, Paul Groves, Haijing Fu; Tan Dun
Performance Date: 1/13/2007
Così fan tutti (Mozart)
“Per pieta, ben mio, perdona”
Carol Vaness; James Levine
Performance Date: 2/27/1996
November 17:
Tristan und Isolde (Wagner)
“So starben wir, um ungetrennt”
Robert Dean Smith, Deborah Voigt, Michelle DeYoung; James Levine
Performance Date: 3/22/2008
Ernani (Verdi)
“Odi il voto”
Luciano Pavarotti; James Levine
Performance Date: 12/17/1983
Les Troyens (Berlioz)
“Nuit d'ivresse”
Featuring: Tatiana Troyanos, Plácido Domingo, Julien Robbins; James Levine
Performance Date: 10/8/1983
November 18:
Salome (Strauss)
“Jochanaan! Ich bin verliebt in deinen Leib, Jochanaan!”
Karita Mattila, Juha Uusitalo; Patrick Summers
Performance Date: 10/11/2008
Otello (Verdi)
“Già nella notte densa”
Jon Vickers, Renata Scotto; James Levine
Performance Date: 9/25/1978
Die Meistersinger (Wagner)
“Morgenlich leuchtend in rosigem Schein”
Ben Heppner, James Morris; James Levine
Performance Date: 12/8/2001
November 19:
Macbeth (Verdi)
“Vieni! T'affretta!...Or tutti sorgete”
Maria Guleghina, Richard Hobson; James Levine
Performance Date: 1/12/2008
Don Giovanni (Mozart)
“Riposate, vezzose ragazze”
Samuel Ramey, Ferruccio Furlanetto, Philip Cokorinos, Dawn Upshaw, Karita Mattila, Carol Vaness, Jerry Hadley; James Levine
Performance Date: 4/5/1990
Die Walküre (Wagner)
“Friedmund darf ich nicht heissen”
Gary Lakes, Kurt Moll, Jessye Norman; James Levine
Performance Date: 4/8/1989
November 20 – 22:
La Damnation de Faust (Berlioz)
“D'amour l'ardente flamme”
Susan Graham; James Levine
Performance Date: 11/22/2008
Doctor Atomic (Adams)
“Batter my heart, three person'd God”
Gerald Finley; Alan Gilbert
Performance Date: 11/8/2008
Don Pasquale (Donizetti)
“E il dottor non si vede! Pronto io son”
Beverly Sills, Håkan Hagegård; Nicola Rescigno
Performance Date: 1/11/1979