Popcorn Opera

The Metropolitan Opera’s increasingly popular HD Live Series kicks off Saturday with Richard Strauss’ Salome. The live event on Saturday is about $22/ticket, and the encore performance is about $15. If the cost is keeping you from attending, consider the encore performance. Also, you might find it interesting to know that half of the ticket [...]

Peter Gelb and the Metropolitan Opera keep ramping up the operasphere and the entire cultural community with groundbreaking initiatives. The latest of these is the new Met Player. On October 22, the Met will offer 170 full-length opera performances via this new online streaming service. The new player claims to be the best viewing experience [...]

I attended the Metropolitan Opera’s Opening Night Gala transmission locally and was not disappointed! From the red carpet to the orchestra pit, everything was magical!
This gala evening, hosted by mezzo-soprano Susan Graham in the opera house, included interviews with Met General Manager Peter Gelb, Met Music Director James Levine, Renée Fleming, Ramón Vargas, Thomas Hampson, [...]

Monday, September 22, 2008, the new season opens with an exciting gala featuring Metropolitan Opera icon Renée Fleming in fully staged excerpts from Verdi’s La Traviata, Massenet’s Manon, and Strauss’s Capriccio.
Although the New York City event is sold out, you can still get tickets for your local movie theater’s simulcast. Unlike the rest of the [...]

Welcome to my blog about enjoying opera outside the traditional opera house, in other words, opportunities to watch opera AND eat popcorn! I will focus primarily on the Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD series that plays live broadcasts to movie theaters all over the world. The San Francisco Opera Cinemacast schedule isn’t out yet,  and [...]