This blog is now turning to focus on the Vic Opera performances of modern Australian operas this year.
But what about the service we've provided for anyone needing an opera? Since early 2020, we've been listing operas available in free live stream every day from round the world.
These splendid donations to our enjoyment are fewer now, but haven't stopped. So we'll point to the offerings in a separate post each week.
For a start, check OperaVision, which always has a range of operas streaming.
And the regular screenings from the Met opera continue. Readers of this blog are getting good at following links, so each week, I'll put up the link and you can go check out the Met offering (just remember it's a day later our time). Want a review? Google the opera name and date and you'll always get several.
The upcoming list is here on the Met Opera site, as usual. With a fine sense of humour they're currently showing a 'Happy Mother's Day' collection of operas about appalling mothers!! You've missed Thomas's version of Hamlet with Simon Keenlyside 'who, for a while, made this role his own and gives a memorable performance here. ' Thus spake Bachtrack. We hope it will be screened again - and meanwhile, here's Keenlyside's performance of Thomas's version of 'To be or not to be'. But still to come on Monday 10th for us is Handel’s Agrippina
with Joyce DiDonato's stunning performance of possibly the historically most awful mother in opera. Did you miss it last year? Here's our blog then.
And next week? Check out the list of varied offerings here. My vote is for next Monday's production, of Donizetti's
Roberto Devereux. Sondra Radvanovsky and Elīna Garanča, are brilliant as the two women. Our blog post on the Tudor Queens of Donizetti is here.
Lyn, 9 May 2021
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