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Classic Arts News Metropolitan Opera Offers Historic Performances in Streaming Audio on Rhapsody "Opera lovers never have enough opera," says Metropolitan Opera general manager Peter Gelb. So he and his company — who have excited opera fans on four continents with such new media ventures as the high-definition broadcasts in movie theaters and the Metropolitan Opera channel on Sirius Satellite Radio — have announced another electronic endeavor to satisfy our hunger for great opera.
Through "Met on Rhapsody," a new venture between the Met and the Rhapsody® digital music service, the company is making broadcast recordings from its treasure-filled archives available in streaming audio on demand. The new service launches today with 100 operas — ranging all the way from a 1937 Carmen starring Rosa Ponselle to a 2006 Don Pasquale starring Juan Diego Fl‹rez and Anna Netrebko.

"Met on Rhapsody" also features an extensive gallery of production and artist photos and a pre-programmed web radio channel taken from Met broadcasts.

A list of the initial 100 operas available via "Met on Rhapsody" is below; the service expects to add more operas each month. To try out the service, visit www.rhapsody.com/metropolitanopera. More information is available at www.metopera.org.


Met on Rhapsody: The first 100 titles (in chronological order by date)

  • 1/9/1937 - Bizet: Carmen
    Papi; Ponselle, Rayner, Bodanya, Huehn

  • 12/2/1944 - Wagner: Die Walk‹re
    Szell; Traubel, Melchior, Bampton, Janssen, Thorborg

  • 1/27/1945 - Thomas: Mignon
    Pelletier; Stevens, Melton, Benzell, Pinza

  • 12/10/1949 - Puccini: Manon Lescaut
    Antonicelli; Kirsten, Bj‹rling, Valdengo

  • 2/16/1952 - Bizet: Carmen
    Reiner; Stevens, Tucker, Conner, Silveri

  • 11/29/1952 - Verdi: La forza del destino
    Stiedry; Milanov, Tucker, Warren, Hines, Miller

  • 4/4/1953 - Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana / Leoncavallo: Pagliacci
    Erede; Milanov, Baum / Del Monaco, Rigal, Silveri

  • 12/3/1955 - Offenbach: Les Contes d'Hoffmann
    Monteux; Tucker, Peters, Stevens, Amara, Singher

  • 12/10/1955 - Verdi: Un ballo in maschera
    Mitropoulos; Milanov, Peerce, Merrill, Anderson, Peters

  • 1/7/1956 - Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor
    Cleva; Callas, Campora, Sordello, Moscona

  • 4/6/1957 - Verdi: La traviata
    Cleva; Tebaldi, Campora, Warren

  • 2/15/1958 - Puccini: La Bohme
    Schippers; Albanese, Bergonzi, Hurley, Sereni, Scott

  • 3/8/1958 - Verdi: Otello
    Cleva; Del Monaco, de los Angeles, Warren

  • 4/12/1958 - Saint-SaêŠns: Samson et Dalila
    Cleva; Del Monaco, Stevens, Singher

  • 2/14/1959 - Mozart: Don Giovanni
    B‹hm; London, Steber, Valletti, Della Casa, Hurley, Flagello

  • 2/21/1959 - Verdi: Macbeth
    Leinsdorf; Warren, Rysanek, Hines, Bergonzi

  • 4/16/1960 - Puccini: Madama Butterfly
    Mitropoulos; Kirsten, Fernandi, Roggero, Sereni

  • 12/17/1960 - Wagner: Tannh‹user
    Solti; Hopf, Rysanek, Prey, Dalis, Hines

  • 2/4/1961 - Verdi: Il trovatore
    Cleva; Corelli, Price, Sereni, Dalis, Wilderman

  • 3/3/1962 - Verdi: Aida
    Schick; Tucci, Corelli, Dalis, MacNeil, Tozzi

  • 4/7/1962 - Puccini: Tosca
    Adler; Price, Corelli, MacNeil

  • 3/30/1963 - Bellini: La sonnambula
    Varviso; Sutherland, Gedda, Flagello, Scovotti

  • 3/7/1964 - Verdi: Don Carlo
    Adler; Corelli, Rysanek, Herlea, Dalis, Tozzi

  • 12/5/1964 - Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor
    Varviso; Sutherland, K‹nya, Herlea, Giaiotti

  • 1/9/1965 - Donizetti: Don Pasquale
    Varviso; Corena, Peters, Alva, Guarrera

  • 1/22/1966 - Beethoven: Fidelio
    B‹hm; Nilsson, King, Evans, Edelmann

  • 2/25/1967 - Verdi: Aida
    Schippers; Price, Bergonzi, Bumbry, Merrill, Hines

  • 3/18/1967 - Puccini: Madama Butterfly
    Molinari-Pradelli; Scotto, Shirley, Casei, Bottcher

  • 12/16/1967 - Verdi: Falstaff
    Amaducci; Flagello, Curtin, Guarrera, Barbieri, Raskin

  • 2/24/1968 - Wagner: Die Walk‹re
    Klobucar; Nilsson, Vickers, Rysanek, Stewart, Ludwig

  • 3/2/1968 - Ponchielli: La Gioconda
    Cleva; Tebaldi, Bergonzi, Cossotto, MacNeil, Giaiotti

  • 3/16/1968 - Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore
    Cleva; Peters, Kraus, Sereni, Corena

  • 4/13/1968 - Gounod: Rom_o et Juliette
    Molinari-Pradelli; Gedda, Freni, Macurdy, Baldwin

  • 4/4/1970 - Bellini: Norma
    Bonynge; Sutherland, Bergonzi, Horne, Siepi

  • 2/26/1972 - Gounod: Faust
    Rich; Domingo, Zylis-Gara, Tozzi, Sereni

  • 4/15/1972 - Weber: Der Freisch‹tz
    Ludwig; K‹nya, Lorengar, Feldhoff, Mathis

  • 1/6/1973 - Donizetti: La Fille du r_giment
    Bonynge; Sutherland, Pavarotti, Resnik, Corena

  • 2/10/1973 - Verdi: Rigoletto
    Levine; Wixell, Grist, Pavarotti, Grillo, Macurdy

  • 2/17/1973 - Bellini: Norma
    Cillario; Caball_, Cossotto, Cossutta, Tozzi

  • 4/7/1973 - Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia
    Levine; Prey, Horne, Di Giuseppe, Corena, Tozzi

  • 2/9/1974 - Verdi: Otello
    Levine; Vickers, Te Kanawa, Stewart

  • 4/13/1974 - Mozart: Don Giovanni
    Levine; Milnes, Price, Burrows, Zylis-Gara, Stratas, Berry

  • 4/19/1975 - Rossini: L'assedio di Corinto
    Schippers; Sills, Verrett, D‹az, Theyard

  • 3/6/1976 - Verdi: Aida
    Levine; Price, Domingo, Horne, MacNeil, Giaiotti

  • 3/13/1976 - Bellini: I Puritani
    Bonynge; Sutherland, Pavarotti, Milnes, Morris

  • 12/11/1976 - Massenet: Esclarmonde
    Bonynge; Sutherland, Aragall, Tourangeau, Grant

  • 1/29/1977 - Meyerbeer: Le Prophte
    Lewis; McCracken, Scotto, Horne, Hines

  • 3/12/1977 - Verdi: La forza del destino
    Levine; Price, Domingo, MacNeil, Talvela, Elias

  • 1/27/1979 - Verdi: Luisa Miller
    Levine; Scotto, Domingo, Milnes, Giaiotti, Morris

  • 2/3/1979 - Massenet: Werther
    Bonynge; Kraus, Crespin, Carlson, Battle

  • 3/29/1980 - Puccini: Manon Lescaut
    Levine; Scotto, Domingo, Elvira

  • 3/28/1981 - Verdi: La traviata
    Levine; Cotrubas, Domingo, MacNeil

  • 1/16/1982 - Puccini: La Bohme
    Levine; Stratas, Carreras, Scotto, Stilwell, Morris

  • 1/23/1982 - Verdi: Luisa Miller
    Santi; Ricciarelli, Pavarotti, Nucci, Plishka, Cheek

  • 12/18/1982 - Verdi: Macbeth
    Levine; Milnes, Scotto, Plishka, Jenkins

  • 12/17/1983 - Verdi: Ernani
    Levine; Pavarotti, Mitchell, Milnes, Raimondi

  • 4/7/1984 - Zandonai: Francesca da Rimini
    Levine; Scotto, Domingo, MacNeil

  • 12/29/1984 - Verdi: Simon Boccanegra
    Levine; Milnes, Tomowa-Sintow, Moldoveanu, Plishka

  • 12/7/1985 - Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana / Leoncavallo: Pagliacci
    Navarre; Behrens, Moldoveanu / Vickers, Pilou, Milnes

  • 3/21/1987 - Bizet: Carmen
    Levine; Baltsa, Carreras, Cotrubas, Ramey

  • 4/9/1988 - Mozart: CosÐ fan tutte
    Epstein; Te Kanawa, Rendall, Montague, Hagegê‰rd, Hong, Cheek

  • 1/21/1989 - Verdi: Il trovatore
    Levine; Pavarotti, Millo, Milnes, Cossotto, Plishka

  • 3/25/1989 - Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin
    Levine; Hynninen, Freni, Hadley, Walker, Sotin

  • 4/29/1989 - Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore
    Panni; Battle, Pavarotti, Quilico, Plishka

  • 3/24/1990 - Mozart: Die Entf‹hrung aus dem Serail
    Levine; Devia, Heilmann, Mills, Magnusson, Moll

  • 2/9/1991 - Mozart: Die Zauberfl‹te
    Levine; Battle, Araiza, Serra, Moll, Hemm

  • 1/18/1992 - Wagner: Der fliegende Holl‹nder
    Conlon; Morris, Behrens, Lakes, Salminen

  • 1/15/1994 - Verdi: I Lombardi
    Levine; Pavarotti, Flanigan, Beccaria, Plishka

  • 1/29/1994 - Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor
    Santi; Devia, Hadley, Pons, Plishka

  • 2/12/1994 - Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro
    Rudel; Morris, Fleming, McLaughlin, Croft, Bunnell

  • 3/26/1994 - Puccini: La Bohme
    Rizzi; Gheorghiu, Leech, Litherland, Robertson, Short

  • 4/1/1995 - Puccini: Tosca
    Oren; Holleque, Pavarotti, Pons

  • 2/24/1996 - Mozart: CosÐ fan tutte
    Levine; Vaness, Hadley, Mentzer, Croft, Bartoli, Allen

  • 2/15/1997 - Verdi: Un ballo in maschera
    Levine; Voigt, Pavarotti, Pons, Dever, Shin

  • 2/7/1998 - Offenbach: Les Contes D'Hoffmann
    Young; Leech, Dessay, Larmore, Racette, Morris

  • 2/28/1998 - Saint-SaêŠns: Samson et Dalila
    Slatkin; Domingo, Graves, Leiferkus

  • 3/21/1998 - Wagner: Lohengrin
    Levine; Heppner, Voigt, Polaski, Ketelsen, Halfvarson

  • 3/28/1998 - Gounod: Rom_o et Juliette
    de Billy; Alagna, Gheorghiu, Lloyd, Jepson

  • 4/10/1999 - Tchaikovsky: The Queen of Spades
    Gergiev; Gorchakova, Domingo, S‹derstr‹m, Hvorostovsky, Putilin

  • 12/18/1999 - Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
    Levine; Heppner, Eaglen, Ketelsen, Dalayman, Pape

  • 3/25/2000 - Wagner: Das Rheingold
    Levine; Morris, Schwarz, Wlaschiha, Langridge

  • 4/1/2000 - Wagner: Die Walk‹re
    Levine; Eaglen, Domingo, Voigt, Morris, Schwarz

  • 4/15/2000 - Wagner: Siegfried
    Levine; Andersen, Eaglen, Morris, Svend_n

  • 4/22/2000 - Wagner: G‹tterd‹mmerung
    Levine; Eaglen, Andersen, Held, Radvanovsky, Halfvarson

  • 1/6/2001 - Beethoven: Fidelio
    Levine; Mattila, Heppner, Leiferkus, Pape

  • 4/7/2001 - Wagner: Parsifal
    Levine; Domingo, Urmana, Ketelsen, Wlaschiha, Tomlinson

  • 12/8/2001 - Wagner: Die Meistersinger von N‹rnberg
    Levine; Morris, Mattila, Heppner, Polenzani, Allen

  • 12/29/2001 - Humperdinck: H‹nsel und Gretel
    Mackerras; Larmore, Upshaw, Blythe, Josephson, Forst

  • 4/6/2002 - Verdi: Falstaff
    Levine; Terfel, Mescheriakova, Croft, Blythe, Tilling

  • 2/8/2003 - Bellini: Il Pirata
    Campanella; Fleming, Giordani, Croft

  • 2/15/2003 - Mozart: Don Giovanni
    Cambreling; Mattei, Radvanovsky, Trost, Diener, Netrebko, Furlanetto

  • 12/13/2003 - Halevy: La Juive
    Viotti; Isokoski, Shicoff, Futral, Cutler, Furlanetto

  • 3/6/2004 - Verdi: La traviata
    Gergiev; Fleming, Vargas, Hvorostovsky

  • 4/30/2005 - Gounod: Faust
    Levine; Alagna, Isokoski, Pape, Hvorostovsky

  • 12/17/2005 - Verdi: Rigoletto
    Fisch; Guelfi, Netrebko, Villaz‹n, Herrera, Halfvarson

  • 3/4/2006 - Gounod: Rom_o et Juliette
    de Billy; Vargas, Dessay, Sigmundsson, Goeldner

  • 4/8/2006 - Puccini: Manon
    L‹pez-Cobos; Fleming, Giordano, Chaignaud

  • 4/15/2006 - Donizetti: Don Pasquale
    Benini; Alaimo, Netrebko, Fl‹rez, Kwiecien
 
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