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Opera Streams: Late-Mid April 2026

17th: Handel's Rodelinda from Garsington Opera. Featuring Lucy Crowe, Tim Mead, Ed Lyon, and Hugh Cutting. Free!

17th: Wagner's Siegfried from the Rotterdam Philharmonic at De Doelen. Concert presentation. Featuring Clay Hilley, Rebecca Nash, and Brian Mulligan. Subscription.

19th: Puccini's Manon Lescaut from Gran Teatre del Liceu. Featuring Asmik Grigorian, Joshua Guerrero, and Iurii Samoilov. Single purchase or season subscription.

19th: Fagerlund's Morgonstjärnan from Ooppera Baletti Finland. World premiere. Featuring Johan Reuter, Jenny Carlstedt, and Helena Juntunen. Free!

22nd: Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin from Müpa Budapest. Concert presentation. Featuring Anna Shapovalova, Alexey Markov, and Szabolcs Brickner. Free!

23rd: Smetana's The Bartered Bride from Teatro Real. Featuring Natalia Tanasii, Sean Panikkar, and Martin Winkler. Free!

24th: Glass's Satyagraha from Opéra de Paris. Featuring Anthony Roth Costanzo, Davóne Tines, and Deepa Johnny. Subscription or Rental.

25th: Verdi's Falstaff from Juilliard's Vocal Arts program. Featuring Minki Hong, Page Michels, and Titus Muzi. Free! No VOD period.

30th: Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande from Teatro alla Scala. Featuring Bernard Richter, Sara Blanch, Simon Keenlyside, and John Relyea. Rental.

Joyce DiDonato's beloved Carnegie Hall master classes are back, streaming on Medici on the 19th, 20th, and 21st.

Archive notes: La Monnaie / De Munt posted the new Bieito Idomeneo for free on YouTube, and Opéra de Versailles recently did the same with their 2025 Ariodante. On Arte, Opéra national du Rhin's 2024 Guercoeur with Stéphane Degout becomes available on the 22nd, and the 2023 premiere of Picture a Day Like This arrives on the 25th.

#rodelinda babey!!!#the siegfried will have julie roset as the waldvogel and you will want to hear her. trust #opera tag #opera streams #opera #operablr #lucy crowe #baroque opera #asmik grigorian #anthony roth costanzo #simon keenlyside #handel #puccini

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production: nicholas hytner, 2011 met opera. | carlo: roberto alagna, rodrigo: simon keenlyside.

#making my way through this staging in bits and pieces whenever i've time #and it truly is v v gay #so here u go #happy easter my guys!#don carlo #don carlos #giuseppe verdi #carlo x rodrigo #opera #operablr #opera gifs #my gifs #gif edit #metropolitan opera #roberto alagna #simon keenlyside

Whichever one of you crazy, lovely humans put this nomination out there, you are freaking making my Yuletide 2025 already. ❤️

#but why is sir bryn the only one with the parenthetical (opera rpf) clarification?#and does this imply that a fictitious bryn terfel exists elsewhere within some ao3 fandom???#also a mite sorry that ludovic tézier isn’t in this tag set to keep jonas company #or roberto alagna because watching him and keenlyside sing “dio che nell'alma infondere amor” together did something to my brain #but that's okay we've got a great assortment of singers here already!#also SO many operas have been nominated for yuletide this year and i am so freaking excited!!!#maybe we don't even need a separate opera fic exchange if yuletide continues trending in this direction?#bryn terfel #jonas kaufmann #simon keenlyside #thomas hampson #archive of our own #ao3 #yuletide 2025 #fanfiction #opera fic #opera tag

Roberto ALAGNA as Don Carlo & Simon KEENLYSIDE as Rodrigo VERDI: Don Carlo | Act 2: O Carlo, ascolta Metropolitan Opera, 2010

#Verdi #Don Carlo #Don Carlos #Simon Keenlyside #Roberto Alagna #Opera #Metropolitan Opera #muchadogifs #operagifs

#stunning #adored the whole thing but his pianissimos??? had me on the floor #baritone prince #simon keenlyside #favourite!#opera tag #Schubert #love him always but his Winterreise has a special place in my heart #Youtube #leeds lieder

is this meme dead yet

#this came to me in a dream #I had to make it #don carlo #opera tag #opera meme #roberto alagna #simon keenlyside #ferruccio furlanetto

Verdi’s opera is not Shakespeare’s play set to music. It’s a different, but equally beautiful, tangle of colour and emotion, and its lead role is one I am still – after many years – getting to grips with

To my mind, opera – and musical theatre – does function in a different way to “straight” theatre. Consider the Shakespeare plays. Monumental literary works written at the end of the 16th century, when we are led to believe that the English language and vocabulary was at its richest. Plays are perhaps linear things. Language, a linear conceit, and words flowing in this or that direction. Gorgeous Shakespearian text, cascading in from the ether on to a steel hawser travelling from point A to point B.

What then is musical theatre, or opera? I think of it as a kind of synesthesia, where all the senses are mixed into a great tangle of truths. The great gobbets of information, of colour and emotion: harmonies and melodies, swirl around in a kind of amorphous cauldron of information: some of it literal and some abstract.

#opera #classical music #william shakespeare #royal opera house #culture #Simon Keenlyside #shakespeare #macbeth #macbetto #verdi #music #shakespeare and music

Since we’re spending this week on a stroll down memory lane (M is for Mozart and also for Memories, right?), I’ll admit that a rich source of memories for me when it comes to Mozart call back to my senior year in college, when I played the Countess in our department’s production of Le Nozze di Figaro. Mozart’s ensemble writing in opera is spectacular, to say the least, but while people talk a lot about the second act and fourth act finales, one of my favorite, less discussed pieces is this second act Terzetto, “Susanna, or via, sortite,” a celebration of anxiety as the Countess desperately tries to keep her jerk husband from discovering Cherubino in the closet, and Susanna tries to figure out what the heck to do about it all. Sung gloriously here by Simon Keenlyside, Julia Kleiter, and Joélle Harvey at the Royal Opera House, this trio was one of my favorite pieces to learn and sing back in the day, and it’s still probably my favorite moment in the opera. Enjoy! - Melinda Beasi

#mozart #memories #w.a. mozart #le nozze di figaro #opera #classical music #classical opera #18th century #simon keenlyside #julia kleiter #joelle harvey #musica in extenso