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Start your summer by streaming spectacular full-length productions of your favorite operas from the world’s renowned outdoor venues! From the Bregenz Festival in Austria, experience over-the-top stagings of Mozart’s The Magic Flute, Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, and Verdi’s Aida and Rigoletto. From the Arena di Verona in Italy, watch Puccini’s beloved La bohème. Also from Verona—and a Carnegie Hall+ first—Bizet’s Carmen will be presented in a free outdoor film screening at Bryant Park on August 3 as part of Carnegie Hall Citywide.

Bregenz Festival: Verdi’s Aida

Bridging ancient Egypt with the US today, this staging by Graham Vick unfolds at the Bregenz Festival’s outdoor stage. Carlo Rizzi leads the Vienna Symphony and a cast that includes soprano Tatiana Serjan as Aida.

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Bregenz Festival: Puccini’s Madama Butterfly

Puccini’s popular opera tells the story of a Japanese geisha and her tragic love for an American lieutenant. The venue for this new production is the floating stage at Bregenz on the Austrian shore of Lake Constance.

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Bregenz Festival: Verdi’s Rigoletto

Verdi’s masterpiece—disturbing yet compelling and beautiful—is an opera of extremes, staged at Austria’s Bregenz Festival as both a circus-like spectacle and an intimate chamber drama on the world’s largest floating stage.

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Arena di Verona: Puccini’s La bohème

Verona’s Roman amphitheater hosts a staging of Puccini’s beloved opera, which was inspired by tales of bohemian life in 19th-century Paris. The story follows a group of artists and the ill-fated love of the seamstress Mimì.

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Arena di Verona: Bizet’s Carmen

The Arena di Verona revives Franco Zeffirelli’s legendary 1995 production of Bizet’s masterpiece about a headstrong young woman of Seville. This performance features mezzo-soprano Elīna Garanča in the title role.

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Photography: Aida by Karl Forster, Madama Butterfly and Rigoletto by Anja Köhler, La bohème and Carmen by FotoEnnevi.