Staying Home & Stayin' Alive With The Met

I've gotten a bit behind in both keeping track of and in watching The Met's free opera streams. Not for lack of love, just for lack of time and the complications of living sequestered with two autistic adults.

But this afternoon Joe told me he wanted to watch an opera with me (unprompted!), so we fired up The Met app * and watched Aida--featuring some fantastic Egyptian sets and the fabulous Anna Netrebko. Also featuring some most excellent ballet moments, which I've long felt was lacking in many operas. We want it all, man!

At one point Joe scooped up Jet i, our opera cat, and I wanted to get a picture of the two watching together, but had only a limited field of view, so I did a triptych...

...and then did a little splicing and lightening to come up with what I thought was a pretty impressive bit of work:

Anyway...here's the schedule for the rest of the week:


April 7: Puccini’s La Fanciulla del West
Conducted by Nicola Luisotti, starring Deborah Voigt, Marcello Giordani, and Lucio Gallo. (Originally broadcast January 8, 2011.)

April 8: Verdi’s Falstaff
Conducted by James Levine, starring Lisette Oropesa, Angela Meade, Stephanie Blythe, and Ambrogio Maestri. (Originally broadcast December 14, 2013.)

April 9: Wagner’s Parsifal
Conducted by Daniele Gatti, starring Katarina Dalayman, Jonas Kaufmann, Peter Mattei, and René Pape. (Originally broadcast March 2, 2013.)

April 10: Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette
Conducted by Gianandrea Noseda, starring Diana Damrau and Vittorio Grigolo. (Originally broadcast January 21, 2017.)

April 11: Donizetti’s Don Pasquale
Conducted by James Levine; starring Anna Netrebko, Matthew Polenzani, and Mariusz Kwiecien. (Originally broadcast November 13, 2010.)

April 12: Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte

Conducted by David Robertson; starring Amanda Majeski, Serena Malfi, Kelli O’Hara, Ben Bliss, Adam Plachetka, and Christopher Maltman. (Originally broadcast live March 31, 2018.)

Be there or be ☐.



* In case you haven't already, you can watch the free opera stream (there's been a new one every night for the past three + weeks, but they go away when the next one comes up at 7:30 pm) either by going to The Met's website (https://www.metopera.org/season/on-demand/), where it's self-explanatory, or by downloading The Met App, where you'll probably get a better experience, but it takes a little finagling. After the app is downloaded, open it, and go to the Browse & Preview button. Enter. Toggle over the the first Free Nightly Met Opera Streams entry. It will say Free Preview, but it's actually going to be the whole opera. Hit enter, then Play Preview, then OK. You're on your way. But you'll have to turn the subtitles on your own self. Which is worth doing. Enjoy.