Think you can't afford the finer things? Think again. We've got the hookup on free opera.
Head to Lincoln Center for an end-of-summer tradition, the Met Opera's Summer HD Festival. This free, outdoor festival features 11 evenings of classic and contemporary operas with a little something for everyone.
Here's the full schedule:
— Friday, August 23, at 8pm: The Red Violin
— Saturday, August 24, at 7:30pm: Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette
— Sunday, August 25, at 8pm: Verdi’s Nabucco
— Monday, August 26, at 8pm: Daniel Catán’s Florencia en el Amazonas
— Tuesday, August 27, at 8pm: Puccini’s La Rondine
— Wednesday, August 28, at 7:30pm: Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking
— Thursday, August 29, at 7:30pm: Mozart’s Don Giovanni
— Friday, August 30, at 7:30pm: Anthony Davis’s X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X
— Saturday, August 31, at 7:30pm: Bizet’s Carmen
— Sunday, September 1, at 7:30pm: Verdi’s La Forza del Destino
— Monday, September 2, at 8pm: Puccini’s Madama Butterfly
This free, annual event features screenings of the Met Opera’s past Live in HD captures displayed on an enormous screen on the façade of the opera house at Lincoln Center. Seating is first-come, first-served on the plaza, and attendees are free to bring their own chairs elsewhere on the Lincoln Center plaza.