#celebrate valentine's day with the crushing misery of totalitarian bureaucracy or god's saddest russian man ruining his own life

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Opera Streams: Early-Mid February 2025

1st: Rameau's Castor et Pollux from Opéra de Paris. Featuring Jeanine de Bique, Marc Mauillon, Reinoud Van Mechelen, and Stéphanie d'Oustrac. Subscription or rental.

1st: Studio Showcase from Irish National Opera. Featuring developing talent singing selections by Mozart, Verdi, Donizetti, and more. Free!

7th: Strauss's Salome from Opera Ballet Vlaanderen. Featuring Allison Cook, Michael Kupfer-Radecky, and Thomas Blondelle. Free!

12th: Wagner's Die Walküre from La Scala. Featuring Klaus Florian Vogt, Elza van den Heever, Camilla Nylund and Michael Volle. Rental. (This may show as live from the 11th, but the performance is on the 12th).

14th: Von Einem's Der Prozess from Theater an der Wien. Featuring Robert Murray, Anne-Fleur Werner, and Alexander Grassauer. Free!

14th: Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin from Teatro Real. Featuring Iurii Samoilov, Kristina Mkhitaryan, and Bogdan Volkov. Subscription.

EDIT: The Met has announced that their production of X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X starring Will Liverman and the 1988 broadcast of Il Barbiere di Siviglia starring Kathleen Battle will be free to stream through the end of February in celebration of Black History Month!