Nightly Opera Streams, June 21–June 27

In celebration of Pride Month, we’re paying tribute to just a handful of the extraordinary LGBTQ+ composers, singers, conductors, and directors who have shared their artistry with Met audiences. Dive into the full lineup with this guide.

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

This summer, the Met will unveil a new documentary from filmmaker Susan Froemke that follows the company’s Music Director, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, from ten-year-old budding conductor to the pinnacle of the opera world.

Live in HD host Nadine Sierra chats backstage with composer Thomas Adès about his stunning and surreal opera The Exterminating Angel, along with two of the production’s stars, Amanda Echalaz and Joseph Kaiser.

In this excerpt from Act I of Dvořák’s Rusalka, streamed this week, mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton plays the witch Ježibaba, who is preparing a potion for Rusalka to drink.

Friends and colleagues of the great English composer reflect on his incomparable musical legacy.

Director Sir David McVicar and mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato rehearse a scene from Act I of Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda, streamed this week, and discuss the work with host Deborah Voigt.

Soprano Patricia Racette sings the celebrated, heartrending aria “Vissi d’arte” from Act II of Puccini’s Tosca, streamed this week.

Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin explores one of the great operatic anthems of hope, “Nessun dorma” from Puccini’s Turandot.

Tenor Michael Fabiano sings Alfredo’s Act II cabaletta “O mio rimorso” from Verdi’s La Traviata, streamed this week.

Maestro Yannick Nézet-Séguin spoke with Met General Manager Peter Gelb about taking the musical reins of the Metropolitan Opera with the beginning in the 2018–19 season.

A behind-the-scenes look at the vision and skill required to create the costumes for Mary Zimmerman’s fantastical new production of Rusalka, with costume designer Mara Blumenfeld, Met costume shop head Elissa Iberti, and Live in HD host Ailyn Pérez.

In this Act II excerpt from the 1997 telecast of Britten’s Billy Budd, streamed for the first time this week, the men of the HMS Indomitable prepare for battle.

When searching for an instrument to give voice to the imprisoning force that traps a group of chic dinner guests in The Exterminating Angel, composer Thomas Adès settled upon an early electronic instrument from the 1920s.

The revival of the bel canto repertoire that began in the mid–20th century was late in coming to the Met, but the company has made up for lost time in recent years, including with important productions of Donizetti’s three operas based on the lives of Anne Boleyn, Mary Stuart, and Elizabeth I.

Offering access to more than 700 complete performances of more than 150 operas, Met Opera on Demand allows subscribers to sift through 85 years of company history—including a dozen performances of La Traviata.

In advance of his second season as Met Music Director—which saw him lead performances of Berg’s Wozzeck and Puccini’s Turandot—Yannick Nézet-Séguin spoke about adding these 20th-century masterpieces to his company repertoire.

In the Met’s 2017 production of Dvořák’s Rusalka, director Mary Zimmerman explored powerful, universal questions by diving below the opera’s fairy-tale veneer.

The Met has presented nearly 1,000 performances of Puccini’s Tosca, starting with the work’s U.S. premiere in 1901. Explore the opera’s fascinating history at the Met.

Works by three leading Czech composers—Bedřich Smetana, Antonín Dvořák, and Leoš Janáček—have gained increasing popularity at the Metropolitan.

Composer Thomas Adès’s discusses how Luis Buñuel’s surrealist film—both fairytale and horror story, mixing the macabre and the dreamlike—inspired his music, and director and librettist Tom Cairns explores the enigmatic plot.

Love, heartbreak, and death: a classic tragedy and a classic opera. Learn more about Verdi’s La Traviata with our In Focus podcast.

The operas of Giuseppe Verdi have been performed around 5,700 times at the Metropolitan Opera, more than those of any other composer by a wide margin.

Director Sir David McVicar describes his romantic staging of Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda, an opera that crackles with drama and features a cataclysmic confrontation between two queens.

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