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Dec. 23, 2020International MORE The Met rings in the new year with a gala performance featuring a quartet of Met stars sopranos Angel Blue and Pretty Yende, and tenors Javier Camarena and Matthew Polenzani live from the stunning Parktheater in Augsburg, Germany. It’ll be streamed live on New Year s Eve as part of the Met Stars Live in Concert series. Photo courtesy of the Metropolitan Opera.
Singing indoors to an audience of people sitting shoulder-to-shoulder that’s not happening during the COVID-19 pandemic. Opera will probably be one of the last things to resume the way it used to. But the Metropolitan Opera has continued to produce shows, just not in its New York theater. The Met brings opera into homes by filming singers performing in historic locations around the world. For example: Jonas Kaufmann at the Polling Abbey in Bavaria and Renée Fleming at the Dumbarton Oaks Museum in Washington.