2017-18 Live Broadcasts

DIE WALKÜRE:Wagner
Original Air Date: 03/07/1987
Levine; Behrens, McIntyre, Altmeyer, Hofmann, Fassbaender, Haugland
MET On Record SID.19230209
This is Levine’s first broadcast of Walkure and the opening production in the Schenk/Schneider-Siemssen Ring. The opening night of the production in the fall had Simon Estes as Wotan. I had seen Hofmann in the Chereau Ring nine years earlier at Bayreuth, and his voice was already showing wear and tear to the extent he never made it to Siegfried or beyond the Ring, Tristan for which he was scheduled. This broadcast is his antepenultimate Met appearance which totals twenty-nine performances and concludes a year later with another Walkure notable more for being Rysanek’s final Met Sieglinde and Waltraud Meier’s only broadcast Walkure Fricka. McIntyre was also in the Chereau Ring and was in much better condition and whose Met career goes on for another nine years beyond this broadcast.

DIE WALKÜRE:Wagner
Original Air Date: 03/07/1987
Levine; Behrens, McIntyre, Altmeyer, Hofmann, Fassbaender, Haugland
MET On Record SID.19230210
This is Levine’s first broadcast of Walkure and the opening production in the Schenk/Schneider-Siemssen Ring. The opening night of the production in the fall had Simon Estes as Wotan. I had seen Hofmann in the Chereau Ring nine years earlier at Bayreuth, and his voice was already showing wear and tear to the extent he never made it to Siegfried or beyond the Ring, Tristan for which he was scheduled. This broadcast is his antepenultimate Met appearance which totals twenty-nine performances and concludes a year later with another Walkure notable more for being Rysanek’s final Met Sieglinde and Waltraud Meier’s only broadcast Walkure Fricka. McIntyre was also in the Chereau Ring and was in much better condition and whose Met career goes on for another nine years beyond this broadcast.

DIE WALKÜRE:Wagner
Original Air Date: 03/07/1987
Levine; Behrens, McIntyre, Altmeyer, Hofmann, Fassbaender, Haugland
MET On Record SID.19230425
This is Levine’s first broadcast of Walkure and the opening production in the Schenk/Schneider-Siemssen Ring. The opening night of the production in the fall had Simon Estes as Wotan. I had seen Hofmann in the Chereau Ring nine years earlier at Bayreuth, and his voice was already showing wear and tear to the extent he never made it to Siegfried or beyond the Ring, Tristan for which he was scheduled. This broadcast is his antepenultimate Met appearance which totals twenty-nine performances and concludes a year later with another Walkure notable more for being Rysanek’s final Met Sieglinde and Waltraud Meier’s only broadcast Walkure Fricka. McIntyre was also in the Chereau Ring and was in much better condition and whose Met career goes on for another nine years beyond this broadcast.

DIE WALKÜRE:Wagner
Original Air Date: 03/07/1987
Levine; Behrens, McIntyre, Altmeyer, Hofmann, Fassbaender, Haugland
MET On Record SID.19230426
This is Levine’s first broadcast of Walkure and the opening production in the Schenk/Schneider-Siemssen Ring. The opening night of the production in the fall had Simon Estes as Wotan. I had seen Hofmann in the Chereau Ring nine years earlier at Bayreuth, and his voice was already showing wear and tear to the extent he never made it to Siegfried or beyond the Ring, Tristan for which he was scheduled. This broadcast is his antepenultimate Met appearance which totals twenty-nine performances and concludes a year later with another Walkure notable more for being Rysanek’s final Met Sieglinde and Waltraud Meier’s only broadcast Walkure Fricka. McIntyre was also in the Chereau Ring and was in much better condition and whose Met career goes on for another nine years beyond this broadcast.

AKHNATEN:Glass
Kamensek; Larusdottir, Bridges, Costanzo, Blake, Liverman, Bernstein, James
Original Air Date: 11/08/2019

SID.19450535
Director Phelim McDermott tackles another one of Philip Glass’s masterpieces, following the now-legendary Met staging of Satyagraha. Star countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo is the title pharaoh, the revolutionary ruler who transformed ancient Egypt, with the striking mezzo-soprano J’Nai Bridges in her Met debut as his wife, Nefertiti. To match the opera’s hypnotic, ritualistic music, McDermott has created an arresting vision that includes a virtuosic company of acrobats and jugglers. Karen Kamensek conducts in her Met debut. This production was originally created by English National Opera and LA Opera; In collaboration with Improbable; Production gift of the Rosalie J. Coe Weir Endowment Fund and the Wyncote Foundation, as recommended by Frederick R. Haas and Rafael Gomez; Additional funding from The H.M. Agnes Hsu-Tang, Ph.D. and Oscar Tang Endowment Fund, Dominique Laffont, Andrew J. Martin-Weber, The Walter and Leonore Annenberg Endowment Fund, American Express, and the National Endowment for the Arts

Verdi
Levine; Millo, Domingo, Toczyska, Milnes, Plishka
Original Air Date: 01/07/1989
MOD Video
SID.19480210
This is Domingo’s second of 3 Radames broadcasts (the last is a simulcast video the following season with Zajick instead of Toczyska). Millo is on excellent form, and Tocyzska is an arresting performer who is a very solid Amneris.

Verdi
Levine; Millo, Domingo, Toczyska, Milnes, Plishka
Original Air Date: 01/07/1989
MOD Video
SID.19480426
This is Domingo’s second of 3 Radames broadcasts (the last is a simulcast video the following season with Zajick instead of Toczyska). Millo is on excellent form, and Tocyzska is an arresting performer who is a very solid Amneris.

Verdi
Levine; Millo, Domingo, Toczyska, Milnes, Plishka
Original Air Date: 01/07/1989
MOD Video
SID.19480641
This is Domingo’s second of 3 Radames broadcasts (the last is a simulcast video the following season with Zajick instead of Toczyska). Millo is on excellent form, and Tocyzska is an arresting performer who is a very solid Amneris.