This afternoon’s live Metropolitan Opera broadcast of Puccini’s beloved opera La Bohème features Anna Netrebko, Piotr Beczala, Nicole Cabell, and Gerald Finley.
This weekend Plácido Domingo makes his much-anticipated baritone debut in the title role of Giuseppe Verdi’s politically-charged Simon Boccanegra. Peter Fox Smith and Cheryl Willoughby host the opera, and share an afternoon of their new and favorite operatic recordings.
The Metropolitan Opera broadcast of Verdi’s Stiffelio is preceded by a recital by tenor Placido Domingo, who is the conductor of this afternoon’s opera.
This afternoon’s Metropolitan Opera broadcast is a performance from the Met’s Archives: Samuel Barber’s Vanessa with Eleanor Steber, recorded on February 1, 1958.