The Best Operas You Should Stream While They’re Free

As the coronavirus cancels live performances all over the world, you can still watch these great, free opera livestreams

The Metropolitan Opera is streaming past performances nightly, attracting such large audiences that on opening night of its new virtual season, even before the curtain went up on Carmen, the site crashed. Photo: Ken Howard/The Metropolitan Opera The worlds of opera and classical music have had plenty of experience preparing for the day when their public would vanish, though they did think it would happen more gradually.

The Metropolitan Opera is streaming past performances nightly, attracting such large audiences that on opening night of its new virtual season, even before the curtain went up on Carmen, the site crashed. The company has a copious and well-curated archive of live performances, so a week at the virtual Met is a week without duds or off nights. I’m looking forward to the March 22 stream of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin.

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