Carnegie Hall will offer free live webcasts of its concert presentations for the first time later this year, it plans to announce on Thursday. It will stream four concerts in November and December in partnership with Medici.tv, the classical streaming service.
Carnegie’s first live webcast — it has been broadcasting events on the radio since at least 1923 — will be on Nov. 4, when it streams a recital of Venetian songs by Joyce DiDonato, the acclaimed mezzo-soprano. That webcast will be followed by concerts featuring the violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter on Nov. 18; the violinist Leonidas Kavakos and the pianist Yuja Wang on Nov. 22; and the pianist Daniil Trifonov on Dec. 9.
They will be streamed live on medici.tv — which can be seen on computers, smartphones, tablets and smart televisions — and will be available for free for 90 days following each performance.
While some outside producers have streamed events from Carnegie, these concerts will mark the first time Carnegie will offer live webcasts of its own presentations. The streaming was made possible in part by the labor agreement that the hall reached last year with Local 1 of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, which represents its stagehands.
Clive Gillinson, the executive and artistic director of Carnegie, said in a statement that he was thrilled “to be able to extend the reach of these extraordinary performances.” And Hervé Boissière, the founder of Medici.tv, said that the streams would allow music lovers to realize the dream of attending a concert at Carnegie, which he called “the hall of fame of classical music.”