I got an e-mail today from the Metropolitan Opera announcing that streaming video of HD performances from the Met are now available. I am very excited. I love opera. I don't get to attend live performances often, but over the past two years, I've been able to attend the Met's Live in HD broadcasts at a movie theater. Now that I have moved, that is not as easily done. This is not quite as good as going to the movie theater. However, it is much more convenient.
I highly recommend the performance of Eugene Onegin, which I saw two years ago. It was fantastic. I recommend skipping Peter Grimes. The voices were good, but the sets are dreadful. I am looking forward to watching The Magic Flute, one of my favorite operas. It has a singing parrot, a lost princess, a melodramatic queen-mother, a prince, and a stretch where the characters are not allowed to make a noise. How could it be anything but fun?
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