Nightly Opera Streams, May 24–30

Discover a treasure trove of lesser-performed operatic gems with the next week of free Nightly Opera Streams. Learn more with this guide.

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

Based on Gogol, Shostakovich’s The Nose relates the satirical story of a man who wakes up one morning to discover his nose has disappeared. In this discussion, General Manager Peter Gelb speaks with artist and director William Kentridge about absurdism.

Last year, the Met family mourned the death of exceptional Italian soprano Mirella Freni, who stars in this week’s stream of Giordano’s Fedora.

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.

Director Dmitri Tcherniakov spent countless hours poring over scores, research, and other historical documents to piece together a new vision of Borodin’s Prince Igor in 2014.

Mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato, who sang Elena in the Met premiere of Rossini’s La Donna del Lago, discusses the challenges and rewards of the art of bel canto.

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.

Go behind the scenes of the creation of Bartlett Sher’s Met-premiere staging of Rossini’s whimsical comedy Le Comte Ory.

In the world of Shostakovich’s The Nose, as conceived by William Kentridge, body parts vanish and turn up as public officials, Anna Pavlova dances with a giant nose on her head, and life is ruled by what the director calls “an absurd logic.”

Director Dmitri Tcherniakov outlines the epic story of Borodin’s Prince Igor, which graced the Met stage for the first time in nearly a century in 2014, and discusses his quest to bring greater awareness to Russian opera.

Part love triangle, part political drama, and packed throughout with vocal fireworks, La Donna del Lago is Rossini’s romantic retelling of Sir Walter Scott’s epic poem The Lady of the Lake. Hear from director Paul Curran about his atmospheric production.

The director of the Met’s vivacious staging of Rossini’s Le Comte Ory discusses his take on the opera in this video looking forward to the production’s 2011 premiere.

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