Diverse Künstler | News | STAGE+ Celebrates World Opera Day with New App Suite for Google Play and Samsung Galaxy Stores

Full functionality and quality features – including 4K, Dolby Atmos and HighRes Audio – now also available in Google and Samsung ecosystems

The mobile app for Deutsche Grammophon’s streaming service STAGE+ is now available with full functionality for Android users. It can be downloaded from the Google Play Store and Samsung Galaxy Store. New customers can take advantage of a 30-day free trial to explore all features and content before subscribing to the platform.

STAGE+ offers over 50 livestreams per year of performances from the world’s most prestigious concert halls and opera houses. Every week, more audio and video releases are added to the platform’s extensive and exclusive archive, which now hosts over 1500 VODs (concerts, operas and documentaries) and over 7000 DG, Decca, ECM, Hyperion, Carus, CAvi and Myrios audio albums.

Streams are available in high-quality audio and video options, including 4K, Dolby Atmos and HighRes Audio, while optimised metadata allow subscribers to search recordings by composer, orchestra, artist or work. All content can be downloaded for offline listening and viewing, with push notifications to provide reminders of live events.

The STAGE+ app is now available on Apple iOS, tvOS and visionOS; Android Mobile, Android TV and Google TV (Smart TV); Amazon Fire TV (Smart TV and Fire TV Stick); Samsung Tizen (Smart TV); and LG webOS (Smart TV). It also supports Apple AirPlay and CarPlay or Google Cast and Android Auto.

New and existing subscribers are invited to immerse themselves in all the passion, drama and colour of opera as STAGE+ celebrates World Opera Day (25 October). Its specially curated selection of performances feature such stars of the opera world as Emily D’Angelo, Cecilia Bartoli, Benjamin Bernheim, Nadine Sierra, Bryn Terfel, Jonathan Tetelman and Pretty Yende.

Canadian mezzo-soprano Emily D’Angelo (‘Female Singer of the Year’, OPUS KLASSIK 2025) stars as a female fighter pilot in Jeanine Tesori’s acclaimed opera Grounded, with a libretto by George Brant. She performs alongside tenor Ben Bliss. Filmed at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Grounded is directed by Michael Mayer, with the Met Opera Chorus and Orchestra conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. The opera will premiere on STAGE+ on World Opera Day.

Four more operas from New York will appear on STAGE+ between now and early March 2026, as part of the platform’s new partnership with the Metropolitan Opera. One production will be premiered each month: Verdi’s La traviata, with Nadine Sierra and Stephen Costello on 29 November; Massenet’s Cinderella, with Isabel Leonard and Emily D’Angelo on 25 December; Puccini’s La rondine, with Angel Blue and Jonathan Tetelman on 24 January; and Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, with Nadine Sierra and Javier Camarena on 6 March.

A further 13 productions from the Metropolitan Opera have already been added to the STAGE+ archive. These encompass some of the company’s most iconic stagings of recent years, including Robert Lepage’s Ring cycle.

Also new to STAGE+ is a  library of 100 operatic productions  from Naxos. Filmed at such prestigious venues as Covent Garden, Glyndebourne and the Staatsoper Berlin, these additions enrich the STAGE+ core-repertoire archive but also feature some fascinating rarities – for example, the Deutsche Oper Berlin production of Korngold’s Das Wunder der Heliane, directed by Christof Loy.

STAGE+ also enjoys partnerships with the Royal Ballet & Opera; Opéra national de Paris; Bayreuth Festival; Teatro alla Scala, Milan; Wiener Staatsoper; Bayerische Staatsoper; Teatro Real, Madrid; Deutsche Oper Berlin; Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin; Salzburg Festival; and Zurich Opera.

As part of this year’s World Opera Day series, STAGE+ is offering three streaming events free of charge: Pretty Yende and Nadine Sierra in Concert from the Philharmonie de Paris; Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, with Nadine Sierra and Bryn Terfel; and Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro from the Wiener Staatsoper, with Andrè Schuen as the Count. There are also a huge number of operas waiting to be discovered in its audio archive, from Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo to Saariaho’s Adriana Mater.  

24 October, 7pm CEST, Premiere
Joana Mallwitz conducts Der Rosenkavalier – with Diana Damrau
Opernhaus Zürich

28 October, 8pm CET, Premiere
Fabio Luisi & Julius Asal: Scriabin’s Piano Concerto
with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra

8 November, 8pm CET, Premiere
Yannick Nézet-Séguin & Seong-Jin Cho: Bruckner & Beethoven
Lucerne Festival

15 November, 8pm CET, Premiere
Mikhail Pletnev plays Chopin & Scriabin
Laeiszhalle, Hamburg

22 November, 7.30pm CET, Livestream
María Dueñas, Antonio Pappano & the COE: Lalo & Dvořák
Esterházy Palace