If you’re working from home and tired of watching news about the coronavirus, you can stream past performances of New York’s Metropolitan Opera each night. The performances go live at 7:30 p.m. ET and will be active for 20 hours. Here’s the lineup for this week:
- Monday, March 16: Bizet’s Carmen (from January 16, 2010)
- Tuesday, March 17: Puccini’s La Bohème (from April 5, 2008)
- Wednesday, March 18:Verdi’s Il Trovatore (from October 3, 2015)
- Thursday, March 19: Verdi’s La Traviata (from December 15, 2018)
- Friday, March 20: Donizetti’s La Fille du Régiment (from April 26, 2008)
- Saturday, March 21: Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor (from February 7, 2009)
- Sunday, March 22: Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin (from February 24, 2007)
At metopera.org or via the Met’s on-demand apps. I’m gonna try to catch some of these. The only opera I’ve seen in person is Bizet’s Carmen in LA.