Nightly Opera Streams, August 31–September 6: Playbills

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Monday, August 31: R. Strauss’s Elektra
Transmitted live on April 30, 2016
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Tuesday, September 1: Britten’s Peter Grimes
Transmitted live on March 15, 2008
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Wednesday, September 2: John Adams’s Nixon in China
Transmitted live on February 12, 2011
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Thursday, September 3: Berg’s Lulu
Transmitted live on November 21, 2015
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Friday, September 4–Saturday, September 5: The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess
Transmitted live on February 1, 2020
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Sunday, September 6: Thomas Adès’s The Tempest
Transmitted live on November 10, 2012
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