Around the globe, live concerts by performing arts groups are shut down for the foreseeable future. As you can see in this article that I contributed to on Classical Voice North America, “Sound of Silence Banishes Music Across the Land,” the arts are being hit hard around our country.

I might add, that if you have concert tickets, you  might consider donating them back to the organization. The impact of Covid-19 may be catastrophic to many of those who make their living in the arts.

Many organizations are offering live streams of concert performances and operas. I’m starting a list below.

Tonight, tune in to your radio (or online at wguc.org) at 8 p.m. to WGUC 90.9 FM to hear a broadcast of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra‘s 125th anniversary concert. Here is my review for that performance of Jan. 18-19.

Here are a few ways to bring the concert hall into your living room:

Beginning, March 16, the Metropolitan Opera will stream a full week of opera from its Live in HD archives each night at 7:30 p.m.  The series starts with a 2010 production of “Carmen” starring Elīna Garanča and Roberto Alagna; followed by “La Bohème” (2008) with Angela Gheorghiu and Ramón Vargas on March 17. On Wed., March 18, it’s Verdi’s “Il Trovatore,” conducted by Marco Armiliato, and starring Anna Netrebko, Dolora Zajick, Yonghoon Lee, and Dmitri Hvorostovsky. It is from 2015.

On March 19, see “La Traviata” from 2018, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, starring Diana Damrau, Juan Diego Flórez, and Quinn Kelsey. The week concludes with Donizetti’s “La Fille du Regiment” (March 20); Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor (March 21) and Eugene Onegin (March 22).

Streams will be watchable for free for 20 hours after the initial broadcast time at metopera.org

The Berlin Philharmonic is offering a month of free access to its Digital Concert Hall with code BERLINPHIL. The offerings include concerts led by Ivan Fischer and Gustavo Dudamel. The code is redeemable until March 31 at digitalconcerthall.com

Watch ballet, opera and concert performances streamed by the Bayerische Staatsoper through April 19. Click here to see the offerings, which include Swan Lake.

The Vienna State Opera is now opening its livestream archives, so that music lovers all over the world will still be able to enjoy opera and ballet. Starting on Sunday, 15 March 2020, Wiener Staatsoper will broadcast recordings of previous opera and ballet performances daily via its streaming platform http://www.staatsoperlive.com – worldwide and free of charge. This online program will even follow the originally planned schedule at the house, with a few exceptions only. Streams start at 7 p.m. or 5 p.m. CET respectively (for Die Walküre, Siegfried, Götterdämmerung) and remain available for 24 hours.

After registration at www.staatsoperlive.com the subscription can be booked free of charge until further notice.

15 March 2020: Das Rheingold (performance of 10 January 2016)
conductor: Adam Fischer | Inszenierung: Sven-Eric Bechtolf
with mit Tomasz Konieczny (Wotan), Boaz Daniel (Donner), Jason Bridges (Froh), Norbert Ernst (Loge), Jochen Schmeckenbecher (Alberich), Herwig Pecoraro (Mime), Ain Anger (Fasolt), Sorin Coliban (Fafner), Michaela Schuster (Fricka), Caroline Wenborne (Freia), Anna Larsson (Erda)

16 March 2020: Falstaff (performance of 30 January 2019)
conductor: James Conlon | director: David McVicar
with Carlos Álvarez (Sir John Falstaff), Simon Keenlyside (Ford), Jinxu Xiahou (Fenton), Herwig Pecoraro (Bardolfo), Ryan Speedo Green (Pistola), Michael Laurenz (Dr. Cajus), Olga Bezsmertna (Alice Ford), Hila Fahima (Nannetta), Monika Bohinec (Mrs. Quickly), Margaret Plummer (Meg Page).

Visit this link to see the whole list.

Classical station WKAR has an extensive list of streaming concerts with some of your favorite artists, such as clarinetist Anthony McGill (this Friday). Click here to see the list.

I’ll keep adding to this list!