Spend your longer, warmer days listening to Monday Night at the Opera, 7 to 10 p.m., every Monday night.
The Spring line up includes:
MARCH 22, 2021: L’ITALIANA IN ALGERI
By Gioacchino Rossini with Agnes Baltsa, Ruggero Raimondi, and Enzo Dara featuring Claudio Abbado conducting the Vienna Philharmonic
MARCH 29, 2021: HERODIADE
By Jules Massenet with Cheryl Studer, Nadine Denize, Ben Heppner, Thomas Hampson and José van Dam featuring Michel Plasson conducting the Chorus and Orchestra of Capitole de Toulouse
APRIL 5, 2021: TRIAL BY JURY
By Gilbert and Sullivan with George Baker, Elsie Morison, Richard Lewis, John Cameron, and Owen Brannigan featuring Malcolm Sargent conducting the Pro Arte Orchestra and the Glyndebourne Festival Chorus
WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE
By Oliver Knussen with Lisa Saffer, Mary King, Christopher Gillett, Quentin Hayes, David Wilson-Johnson, and Stephen Richardson featuring Oliver Knussen conducting the London Sinfonietta
APRIL 12, 2021: ELECTRA
By Richard Strauss with Birgit Nilsson, Leonie Rysanek, Alfred Krauss featuring Georg Solti conducting the Vienna Philharmonic, hosted by Jeremey Bot
APRIL 19, 2021: FALSTAFF
By Giuseppe Verdi with Renato Bruson, Katia Ricciarelli, Leo Nucci, and Barbara Hendricks featuring Carlo Maria Giulini conducting the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Los Angeles Master Chorale
APRIL 26, 2021: DIE DREIGROSCHENOPER
By Kurt Weill with Lotte Lenya, Willy Trenk-Trebitsch, Trude Hesterburg, Erich Schellow, and others featuring Wilhelm Bruckner-Ruggerberg conducting the Orchestra Sender Freies Berlin
Songs from Kurt Weill’s Broadway Hits
MAY 3, 2021: ANNA BOLENA
By Gaetano Donizetti with Beverly Sills, Shirley Verrett, and Paul Plishka featuring Julius Rudel conducting the London Symphony Orchestra and the John Aldis Chorus
MAY 10, 2021: LA BOHEME
By Giacomo Puccini with Mirella Freni, Luciano Pavarotti, and Nicolai Ghiaurov featuring Herbert von Karajan conducting the Berlin Philharmonic, hosted by Jeremey Bot
MAY 17, 2021: DIE TOTE STADT
By Erich Wolfgang Korngold with Carol Neblett, Rene Kollo, Hermann Prey featuring Erich Leinsdorf conducting the Munich Radio Orchestra and the Bavarian Radio Chorus
MAY 24, 2021: ADRIANA LECOUVREUR
By Francesco Cilea with Renata Tebaldi, Mario Del Monaco, and Giulietta Simionato featuring Franco Capuana conducting the Chorus and Orchestra of the Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Rome
Arias by Renata Tebaldi and Mario del Monaco
MAY 31, 2021: L’HEURE ESPAGNOLE
By Maurice Ravel with Jane Berbie, Jean Giraudeau, Gabriel Bacquier, and José van Dam featuring Lorin Maazel conducting the National French Radio Orchestra
REQUIEM, OP.48
By Gabriel Fauré with Judith Blegen and John Morris featuring Robert Shaw conducting the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus.
JUNE 7, 2021: IRIS
By Pietro Mascagni with Ilona Tokody, Placido Domingo, Juan Pons, and Bonaldo Giaiotti featuring Giuseppe Patané and the Munich Radio Symphony Orchestra and Bavarian Radio Chorus
JUNE 14, 2021: IPHIGENIE EN TAURIDE
By Christoph Willibald Gluck with Diana Montague, Thomas Allen, John Aler, and Nancy Argenta featuring John Eliot Gardiner conducting the Lyon Opera Orchestra and the Monteverdi Choir, hosted by Jeremey Bot.
