My Opera Subscription

I've kept rolling over my Met subscription as dates were cancelled during the pandemic. Eventually, I figured, the Met would come back and I'd still want to have a subscription, and in the meantime letting them keep the money was a small way to support the arts.

Anyway, it's looking like there will be a fall season, and I think I will feel comfortable attending. I got an email from the Met confirming my subscription, albeit cancelling Gluck's Iphigenie en Tauride for tech upgrades.

At present, this apparently is my subscription package:

Fire Shut Up In My Bones
10/19/2021 7:00 PM

Rigoletto
01/11/2022 7:00 PM

Ariadne auf Naxos
03/08/2022 8:00 PM

Elektra
04/05/2022 7:00 PM

La Bohème
05/24/2022 8:00 PM


I do not remember selecting this subscription package, but it's plausibly something I would choose. Only one of the shows is new to me- I've seen the Met's Rigoletto, Ariadne, Elektra, and La Boheme. Rigoletto and Ariadne are two of my favorite operas, La Boheme is the most tolerable Puccini, and I guess I'm giving Strauss another chance to win me over with Elektra. The Gluck opera probably was part of what sold me on the package, but oh well, it all should be good.

But I am most excited for Fire Shut Up In My Bones, a Met premiere by jazz trumpeter and composer Terence Blanchard. I saw him play a mindboggling set at lPR a couple years back, and he is going to be the first black composer to have his work staged by the Metropolitan Opera. (As usual, no cookies for Peter Gelb.)

As always, I have an extra ticket, so if anyone is interested in joining me for any of these shows, let me know.