Wednesday, April 1. FREE GUIDE TO FREE STREAMS 

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Free Guide to Free Streams Around The World

Noon CET: Staatsoper unter den Linden. Verdi’s Il Trovatore. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim; director: Philipp Stölzl; starring Anna Netrebko, Gaston Rivero, Plácido Domingo, Marina Prudenskaya, Staatsopernchor, Staatskapelle Berlin. Available free for 24 hours.

7 pm CET: Bolshoi Theater streams Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Tsar’s Bride. Conductor: Tugan Sokhiev; Stage Director: Julia Pevzner, with Stanislav Trofimov, Anastasia Sorokina, Elchin Azizov, Nikolai Kazansky, Bekhzod Davronov, Agunda Kulaeva, Roman Muravitsky, Elena Zelenskaya. Production from 2014. Available here and for 24 hours after.

7 pm CET: Vienna Staatsoper streams Strauss’s Die Frau Ohne Schatten(performance of June 10, 2019). Conductor: Christian Thielemann | director: Vincent Huguet, with Stephen Gould (Der Kaiser), Camilla Nylund (Die Kaiserin), Evelyn Herlitzius (Die Amme), Wolfgang Bankl (Geisterbote), Wolfgang Koch (Barak, der Färber), Nina Stemme (Färberin). Sign up for free and view here.

7 pm CET: Lucerne Festival streams Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30; Vocalise, Op. 34, no. 14 (orchestral version); Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 44. Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly conductor, Denis Matsuev piano. Recorded on August 16, 2019. Register free and available here for 24 hours.

7 pm CET: OperaVision livestreams Gluck’s Alceste from Teatro La Fenice. Conductor: Guillaume Tourniaire; Director: Pier Luigi Pizzi Admeto, with Marlin Miller, Carmela Remigio, Ludovico Furlani, Zuzana Markova, Anita Teodoro, Giorgio Misseri, Orchestra e Coro Teatro La Fenice. View here.

Noon CDT: Cliburn Watch Party featuring 2013 Cliburn Gold Medalist Vadym Kholodenko. Cliburn Competition Preliminary II Recital: Bach-Siloti Prelude in B Minor, BWV 855a, Beethoven Sonata No. 30 in E, Stravinsky Trois Mouvements de Petrouchka. View on Facebook and reposted after at Cliburn.org/watchparty and YouTube/thecliburn.

1:30 pm ET: The Kanneh-Mason Family
“The Von Trapps of Classical Music” (Telegraph UK) will be going live via cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason’s Facebook every Wednesday and Friday at 1:30 pm ET. This will be a mixture of intimate chamber performances with the family, and behind the scenes chat. You can watch their first live here.

7 pm ET: HERE@HOME Wednesday Watch Party: Kamala Sankaram’s Looking at Youfrom 2019, which examines internet surveillance, appropriate now that our lives, for the foreseeable future, are to be lived online. View here.

7:30 pm ET: Nightly Met Opera Streamspresents John Adams’s Nixon in China. Conducted by John Adams, starring Janis Kelly and James Maddalena. Transmitted live on February 12, 2011. Go to www.metopera.org on the day. From the MA archives, Nixon in China Revisited: If It Ain’t Broke…