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.
Each showing is presented on a massive screen located on the Met Opera House facade, with seating across the plaza and around the fountain. Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis, with no rain dates.
Here's the full schedule:
— Friday, August 25, at 8pm: Moonstruck
— Saturday, August 26, at 8pm: Verdi’s La Traviata
— Sunday, August 27, at 8pm: Cherubini’s Medea
— Monday, August 28, at 8pm:Kevin Puts’s The Hours
— Tuesday, August 29, at 8pm: Verdi’s Falstaff
— Wednesday, August 30, at 7:30pm: Brett Dean’s Hamlet
— Thursday, August 31, at 7:30pm: Mozart’s Così fan tutte
— Friday, September 1, at 8pm: Giordano’s Fedora
— Saturday, September 2, at 8pm: Terence Blanchard’s Champion
— Sunday, September 3, at 8pm: Verdi’s Rigoletto
— Monday, September 4, at 8pm: Puccini’s La Bohème
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.