Nightly Opera Streams, January 11–17

This week, we pay tribute to the extraordinary Renée Fleming, with free streams of some of her most memorable Met performances. Explore the full lineup with this helpful guide.

View the Playbills from the original performance dates for each stream, including synopses, program notes, and more.

Take a look back at some of Renée Fleming’s most powerful appearances in the company’s The Met: Live in HD series.

Dive into the details of the Marschallin’s monologue on the passing of time with Renée Fleming and host Rhiannon Giddens in this episode of our Aria Code podcast, a collaboration with WQXR.

As she prepared to star as Countess Madeleine in a revival of Strauss’s Capriccio in 2011, Renée Fleming discussed why she loves singing the composer’s music.

Something of a rarity on the Met stage, Massenet’s Thaïs features one of opera’s most alluring and show-stopping heroines—it is a role that has been assumed by some of history’s most celebrated divas.

Thaïs is “a great star,” says Renée Fleming, who brought Massenet’s beguiling heroine to the Met stage in 2008.

As he prepared to take the podium for the 2014 revival of Rusalka, Yannick Nézet-Séguin discussed his love for Dvořák’s dark fairy-tale opera.

As she prepared to reprise her portrayal of the title heroine of Handel’s dramatic opera, soprano Renée Fleming explained why the composer continues to seize audiences’ imaginations.

As Rossini’s raging sorceress Armida, soprano Renée Fleming conjured her lustrous vocal powers in Mary Zimmerman’s 2010 Met-premiere production.

Though a rarity on the Met stage in the company’s early decades, Mozart’s masterpiece of comedy and social commentary has been a cornerstone of the Met repertory for the past 80 years, brought to life by a parade of great singers and conductors.

Renée Fleming, one of the most celebrated exponents of the title role of Dvořák’s Rusalka, discusses the impact the lonely water sprite has had on her career in this 2014 Live in HD interview with host Susan Graham.

In this poignant moment from last April’s At-Home Gala, Met concertmaster David Chan and Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin perform the celebrated Méditation from Massenet’s Thaïs.

In the Met’s 1998 telecast of Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro, mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli interpolated two of Mozart’s rarely heard alternate arias into her performance as the scheming maid Susanna. Listen to her jaunty rendition of “Un moto di gioia” in Act II.

While the company hadn’t presented an opera by Handel before 1984, in recent years, the composer’s works have appeared with increasing frequency on the Met stage.

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