O brave new opera that has such music in it!

A reminder - the Met is always with you. They are now on week 65 of their free livestreams, and this week they screen a series of classics in modern settings. Something good most nights. Go here to see the schedule, and remember the screening is a day later our time.

Changing the Scene: Updated Settings for Classic Operas

Pick of the bunch? My choice screens Saturday 12 June our time -

Thomas Adès’sThe Tempest with Simon Keenlyside as a splendidly vindictive Prospero. Here's his final act aria 'Their brains are boiled.'

This production screened several times in these lockdown months, but if you've missed it, don't bypass it this time. The amazing Audrey Luna is Ariel, and a very sweet Isabel Leonard is his precious daughter Miranda and Alan Oke as a truly fascinating Caliban.

Comic characters Iestyn Davies, Kevin Burdette - with Alan Oke as Caliban

Thomas Adès conducts. Production by Robert Lepage. Here's our recent post about it. And more here from the early days of this course when we surveyed operas from Shakespeare.

Then week 66, they offer some operatic fathers for Father's Day!!

A mixed lot of gods and humans, including Wotan, Boris G., and of course pere Germont, Alfredo's stern father - here sung by a gnetle Dmitri Hvorostovsky,

And that takes you on wings of opera across most of June.Thanks, Met.

Lyn, 8 June 21.