Arte Webcasts

For years, I have been lamenting the fact that we cannot get Arte, or a comparable American channel, on televisions on this side of the Atlantic. Now, one can see the channel's most desirous desirable programming, the live broadcasts of operas and concerts from Europe, which is especially useful now during the summer festival season -- by webcast, my new favorite way to spend extra summer hours. In addition to the broadcast of Szymanowski's King Roger, noted earlier this week, add the following to your list of performances to watch:

• Handel, Jephtha (Opéra National du Rhin, May 29), with the Freiburger Barockorchester, cond. Ivor Bolton, staged by Jonathan Duverger and Jean-Marie Villégier
  
• Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, cond. Pierre Boulez, playing Schoenberg's Verklärte Nacht and Variations for Orchestra (Salle Pleyel, February 20)
  
• Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, with François-Frédéric Guy (piano), Beethoven 5th concerto, Bartók's Wooden Prince (Salle Pleyel, May 15)
  
• Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Waltraud Meier (mezzo-soprano), music by Chausson and Bernstein (Salle Pleyel, June 5)
  
• Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, with Deborah Voigt (soprano), music by Debussy, Wagner, Mahler et Strauss (Salle Pleyel, June 24)
  
• Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, with Renaud Capuçon (violin), cond. Gustavo Dudamel, Korngold violin concert, Mahler first symphony (Salley Pleyel, June 26)
  
• Parades, inspired by the Cocteau work, Festival d'Aix-en-Provence (June 27)
  
• Concert by György and Márta Kurtág, with Hiromu Kikuchi (violin), Festival d'Aix-en-Provence (July 5)

Concert coming up that are definitely on my list to watch: Magdalena Kožená and Camerata Salzburg (Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, July 10); Mozart's Idomeneo, cond. Marc Minkowski, staging by Olivier Py (Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, July 10); Offenbach's Orphée aux Enfers (Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, July 16).

Add to this the already noted video offerings from Medici TV, which include at the moment, from the Festival de Saint-Denis: Pergolesi's Stabat Mater, with Christophe Rousset, Sabina Puertolas, Vivica Genaux, Les Talens Lyriques; from the same forces, Handel's Il Pianto di Maria and Leo's Salve regina (June 23); Verdi's Requiem, Riccardo Muti, Orchestre national de France (June 8). Also, the Berlin Philharmonic at the Waldbühne (Simon Rattle with Yefim Bronfman, June 21) and, starting on July 17, the broadcasts from the outstanding Verbier Festival.