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Met Nightly Opera Stream – Viewers Choice Click here to watch Sadly, after this week, the Met is ceasing its free nightly opera stream. Now that they’re gearing up for the new live season in the Metropolitan Opera House, they’re abandoning those of us who don’t live in New York or can’t afford the tickets. It has been a simply wonderful boon to be able to see great singers in their most important roles, many of whom are no longer performing. The schedule has included outstanding complete performances from the past 14 years of cinema transmissions, starring all of opera’s greatest singers. each performance available for a period of 23 hours, from 7:30 p.m. EDT until 6:30 p.m. the following day. For this final week, the Met has asked viewers to choose their favourites and, unsurprisingly, we have chosen the most famous, sung by the most famous. It’s a wonderful panoply and a reminder of why we need the world’s great opera companies, no matter how chaotic their management or absurdly high their ticket prices. They represent the highest of high art and losing that would be to lose part of what makes us human. Even if you’ve seen them all already, if you’re an opera lover you will be glued to your screens this week for Jonathan Miller’s production of Les Nozze di Figaro starring Renée Fleming, Cecilia Bartoli, Susanne Mentzer, Dwayne Croft, and Bryn Terfel on Monday, Zeffirelli’s Cav and Pag starring Tatiana Troyanos, Jean Kraft, Plácido Domingo, and Vern Shinall, Teresa Stratas, Plácido Domingo, Sherrill Milnes, and Allan Monk on Tuesday, Bizet’s Les Pecheurs des Perles on Wednesday, with Diana Damrau, Matthew Polenzani, Mariusz Kwiecień, and Nicolas Testé, conducted by Gianandrea Noseda. On Thursday we get Bartlett Sher’s production of Les Contes d' Hoffmann, sung by Erin Morley, Hibla Gerzmava, Kate Lindsey, Christine Rice, Vittorio Grigolo, and Thomas Hampson, Donizetti’s La Fille du Regiment, on Friday, with Natalie Dessay, Felicity Palmer, Juan Diego Flórez and Alessandro Corbelli, Saturday is Il Trovatore in David McVicar’s production, with Anna Netrebko, Dolora Zajick, Yonghoon Lee, and Dmitri Hvorostovsky, conducted by Marco Armiliato, and Sunday brings us Un Ballo in Maschera with Sondra Radvanovsky, Kathleen Kim, Stephanie Blythe, Marcelo Álvarez, and Dmitri Hvorostovsky, conducted by Fabio Luisi. E busta! That’s it for the Free Nightly Streams which have given so many of us so much pleasure. Met Opera on Demand Click here to subscribe We can still access the Met’s archive via Met Opera On Demand but now we have to pay for it. It costs $14.99/month or $149.99/year, which doesn’t seem to me excessive for this extraordinary collection of operas and stars. They’ll even give you a week’s free trial. First Date – Stellar Click here for tickets Here’s a lightweight and charming musical starring ‘‘American Idol’’ alumni (and real-life married couple) Ace Young and Diana DeGarmo. FIRST DATE tells the story of Aaron and Casey, two single New Yorkers on a blind date with nothing to lose, except maybe their patience and sanity. This hilariously relatable musical puts you right at the bar along with them - and all the persistent voices in their heads. While they fight the urge to call it a no-go, they suffer through every dating faux pas in the book, from awkward silences to rambling about their exes to panicking over their past. But in the end, they can’t help but be curious about their chances at a second date…and maybe even finding love. With a contemporary pop Broadway score, and filled with those cringeworthy yet priceless moments that might feel all-too familiar, FIRST DATE lets us know it’s all part of the wonderful process of finding the perfect partner. July 23-25 $20 Last Easter – Orange Tree Theatre Click here for tickets Tinuke Craig directs Naana Agyei-Ampadu (June), Peter Caulfield (Gash), Jodie Jacobs (Leah), and Ellie Piercy (Joy). Here’s a very different kind of theatre. Last Easter is a funny, moving and provocative play by Bryony Lavery, one of our most important contemporary playwrights, about the true nature of friendship. A quartet of theatre friends – a lighting designer, an actress, a prop maker and a drag singer - career across France. They’re on their way to Lourdes, hoping to find a miracle for their friend, the lighting designer, who has been diagnosed with a devastating illness. She’s a non-believer who thinks the only good thing about religion is the lighting. They’re going to discover that miracles come in many different forms. 22/23 July at 7.30 24 July at 8am £15 The Bolt – Bolshoi Ballet Click here for tickets I’d almost guarantee you haven’t seen this, even though it’s an Alexei Ratmansky ballet for the Bolshoi with music by Shostakovich. I hadn’t, until it turned up on Marquee TV. And, for a ballet freak, it’s fascinating, and really funny in places, even if you don’t know Russian. Shostakovich himself, not famous for his charm, was less than enchanted with the 1931 ballet laid onto his music, he said, “There's a machine. Then it breaks down (problem of wear and tear on equipment). Then they fix it (problem of amortization), and at the same time they buy a new one. Then everyone dances around the new machine. Apotheosis. All this takes three acts." The Bolt then vanished from the repertoire shortly thereafter, for 74 years, not because of Shostakovich’s scathing review but for preaching anti-Soviet ideals and consequently, or perhaps because, Shostakovich hated it, had not been performed since its premiere in 1931 until recently, and never since its premiere in 1931. This version of The Bolt is very Ratmansky, full of neat footwork and clear gestures and his trademark sense of humour. The soloists are Anastasia Yatsenko, Andrei Merkuriev and Denis Savin but it’s really an ensemble piece and I admire how Ratmansky marshalls his huge forces of the entire Bolshoi corps de ballet. The Moscow press was wildly enthusiastic about this new version, pointing out that it is “incredibly exciting, outrageously entertaining, and improbably edifying, providing great fun for communists and capitalists alike”, but that’s them. It’s a curiousity, and I doubt you’ll stick with it to the end, but it's fun to see something so completely different. On Demand £8.99 for a month, £62.99 annual subscription A Cold Supper Behind Harrods (a recording of a live play reading) Click here for tickets Revenge is a dish best served cold. Fifty years after the war that brought them together, three Special Operations Executive agents meet to record interviews for a television documentary. As Leo, Vera and John wait to be interviewed in a beautiful English garden, drinking tea and doing the crossword, pleasantries give way to deeper darker subjects. A web of self-deception, lies and guilt begins to emerge. Only when all three are about to leave for London in a taxi, for “a cold supper behind Harrods” does the disturbing truth emerge. David Morley’s heart stopping play stars national treasures David Jason, Stephanie Cole and Anton Lesser with Saffron Coomber and Lucy Doyle and is directed by Philip Franks. 22 June 2021 - 22 September 2021. £20 5 mins to make you love symphonies – NYT Click here to watch This is another in the New York Times occasional series addressed to non-music addicts to persuade them to love or, at least, to listen to various elements of classical music. We’ve seen 5 minutes to make you love sopranos, pianos, Opera, cello, Mozart, violin, sopranos, Beethoven, flute, string quartets, tenors, Brahms, choral music and percussion. Now they want to convince curious friends to love symphonies, the sweeping musical statements at the foundation of the orchestral repertory. I ask you, how could anyone NOT love symphonies. Wait, there are a few I don’t love. Lots here to discover. Quentin Crisp: Naked Hope Click here for tickets ‘Naked Hope’ is a glorious, truthful and uplifting celebration of a genuinely unique human being, and of the urgent necessity to be yourself. Written and performed by Mark Farrelly, and directed by Linda Marlowe, ‘Naked Hope’ depicts the legendary Quentin Crisp at two distinct phases of his extraordinary life. Firstly, in the late 1960s in his filthy Chelsea flat. In the second part of the play, he’s in New York in the 1990s. Here a much older Quentin, finally embraced by society, regales the audience with his sharply observed, hard-earned philosophy on how to have a lifestyle. Written & Performed by Mark Farrelly, Directed by Linda Marlowe July 22-Aug 1 £12+£3 transaction fee Jim Caruso’s Pyjama Cast Party Click here to watch Jim Caruso’s Cast Party is a New York institution. Every Monday evening at the legendary Birdland jazz club in Manhattan, every cabaret singer who happens to be in town drops in for a chat with Jim and sings a song or two. No rehearsal, no preparation, and it’s always wonderful. When I’m in my ‘other’ hometown, I never miss it. When the pandemic hit and closed Birdland, along with every other music venue including my own Pheasantry in London, that didn’t stop the ebullient host, Jim Caruso, for a heartbeat. He simply moved his Cast Party online and renamed it Pyjama Cast Party. This week is the 67th edition of the online version and the great thing is, if you’re not in New York this week, and sadly, many of us are not, you can watch whoever turns up to the show as if you were there. This week will include performances by two-time Tony winning composer/lyricist Adam Guettel, Shereen Pimentel who stars as Maria in the upcoming West Side Story Broadway revival, and jazz vocalist and trombone virtuoso Hailey Brinnel and probably a bunch of others. This show is catnip for cabaret lovers. It’s free to watch but any donations go to The Actors Fund and/or Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. July 21 at 8pm ET and then available on Jim Caruso’s Cast Party YouTube page.
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