Watch Metropolitan Opera streams for free.
Watch Metropolitan Opera streams for free
Each day, a different encore presentation from the company’s Live in HD series is being made available for free streaming on the Met website, with each performance available for a period of 23 hours, from 7:30 p.m. EDT until 6:30 p.m. the following day. The schedule will include outstanding complete performances from the past 14 years of cinema transmissions, starring all of opera’s greatest singers.
Supertitles available
When you watch the live stream, click on the small box at the bottom right that is labeled “CC”. This will provide captions for you.
Schedule – All operas start streaming at 7:30PM EDT and stream through 3:30PM EDT the following day
Find the story of the opera here. Standard Stories from the Operas. Search for “Name of opera” and click on the link. And now the Met also has a synopsis for each opera.
UPCOMING SCHEDULE
Week 52
Verismo Passions
Monday, March 8
Puccini’s Manon Lescaut
Starring Renata Scotto, Plácido Domingo, Pablo Elvira, and Renato Capecchi, conducted by James Levine. Production by Gian Carlo Menotti. From March 29, 1980.
Tuesday, March 9
Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana and Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci
Starring Eva-Maria Westbroek, Marcelo Álvarez, and George Gagnidze; Patricia Racette, Marcelo Álvarez, George Gagnidze, and Lucas Meachem, conducted by Fabio Luisi. Production by Sir David McVicar. From April 25, 2015.
Wednesday, March 10
Cilea’s Adriana Lecouvreur
Starring Anna Netrebko, Anita Rachvelishvili, Piotr Beczała, and Ambrogio Maestri, conducted by Gianandrea Noseda. Production by Sir David McVicar. From January 12, 2019.
Thursday, March 11
Zandonai’s Francesca da Rimini
Starring Eva-Maria Westbroek, Marcello Giordani, Robert Brubaker, and Mark Delavan, conducted by Marco Armiliato. Production by Piero Faggioni. From March 16, 2013.
Friday, March 12
Giordano’s Fedora
Starring Mirella Freni, Ainhoa Arteta, Plácido Domingo, Dwayne Croft, and Jean-Yves Thibaudet, conducted by Roberto Abbado. Production by Beppe De Tomasi. From April 26, 1997.
Saturday, March 13
Giordano’s Andrea Chénier
Starring Maria Guleghina, Wendy White, Stephanie Blythe, Luciano Pavarotti, and Juan Pons, conducted by James Levine. Production by Nicolas Joël. From October 15, 1996.
Sunday, March 14
Puccini’s Tosca
Starring Sonya Yoncheva, Vittorio Grigolo, Željko Lučić, and Patrick Carfizzi, conducted by Emmanuel Villaume. Production by Sir David McVicar. From January 27, 2018.
Week 53
Viewers’ Choice
Monday, March 15
Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann
Starring Anna Netrebko, Kathleen Kim, Ekaterina Gubanova, Kate Lindsey, Joseph Calleja, and Alan Held, conducted by James Levine. Production by Bartlett Sher. From December 19, 2009.
Tuesday, March 16
Puccini’s La Fanciulla del West
Starring Eva-Maria Westbroek, Jonas Kaufmann, and Željko Lučić, conducted by Marco Armiliato. Production by Giancarlo Del Monaco. From October 27, 2018.
Wednesday, March 17
Donizetti’s Anna Bolena
Starring Anna Netrebko, Ekaterina Gubanova, Tamara Mumford, Stephen Costello, and Ildar Abdrazakov, conducted by Marco Armiliato. Production by Sir David McVicar. From October 15, 2011.
Thursday, March 18
Philip Glass’s Akhnaten
Starring Dísella Lárusdóttir, J’Nai Bridges, Anthony Roth Costanzo, Aaron Blake, Will Liverman, Richard Bernstein, and Zachary James, conducted by Karen Kamensek. Production by Phelim McDermott. From November 23, 2019.
Friday, March 19
Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia
Sstarring Joyce DiDonato, Juan Diego Flórez, Peter Mattei, John Del Carlo, and John Relyea, conducted by Maurizio Benini. Production by Bartlett Sher. From March 24, 2007.
Saturday, March 20
Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin
Starring Renée Fleming, Ramón Vargas, and Dmitri Hvorostovsky, conducted by Valery Gergiev. Production by Robert Carsen. From February 24, 2007.
Sunday, March 21
Handel’s Agrippina
Starring Brenda Rae, Joyce DiDonato, Kate Lindsey, Iestyn Davies, Duncan Rock, and Matthew Rose, conducted by Harry Bicket. Production by Sir David McVicar. From February 29, 2020.
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Carl B. & Alice T. Edwards says
We thoroughly enjoyed the opportunity to view some of the Met’s operas! Having only seen one production long ago in NY, however as long time season’s ticket holders to the Lyric, we qualify as Opera lovers and liked seeing the spectacular performances the Met produced!
My husband sent in a modest contribution to help keep that wonderful institution afloat and show our appreciation for wonderful seats up close to some old favorites and a couple of new operas!
Our undying gratitude for making this covid19 quarantine more pleasant!
Sincerely,
Alice T. & Carl B. Edwards
Carol says
I’m so glad you enjoyed it. Aren’t they fabulous? We’re so lucky to have the Lyric but all opera lovers have to go to the Met. This is the next best thing. Thanks for subscribing to the site. I’m trying my best to post interesting things but there isn’t a lot. Thanks again!