Met Opera on Demand

The Metropolitan Opera

About this app

Met Opera on Demand delivers instant and unlimited streaming of more than 750 full-length Metropolitan Opera performances on your Android smartphone or tablet—and on your HDTV or connected sound system as well with Chromecast.

The Met Opera on Demand app is free to download. Met Opera on Demand subscribers can sign in anytime for complete and unlimited access to everything available. Free 7-day trial available for new users.

Highlights of this unparalleled collection of opera performances include:

• More than 175 presentations from the Met’s award-winning "Live in HD" series of global cinema transmissions, featuring opera superstars Nadine Sierra, Lise Davidsen, Joyce DiDonato, Kelli O'Hara, Renée Fleming, Peter Mattei, Juan Diego Flórez, Elīna Garanča, Eric Owens, and many more

• Classic Met telecasts dating from 1977, including "Aida" starring Leontyne Price, "La Bohème" starring Luciano Pavarotti, and many more

• More than 500 radio broadcast performances dating back to 1935, representing nearly all of the most popular operas ever composed and many of the greatest singers in Met history including Björling, Callas, Corelli, Horne, Nilsson, Sutherland, Tebaldi, Te Kanawa, and Tucker

All Met Opera on Demand videos offer English subtitles, and many recent HD performances also include subtitles in French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish. Subscribers with Chromecast can watch all videos with the full offering of multi-language subtitles on their TV. New operas are added every month. You can bookmark your favorite performances for easy access at any time, and choose performances to watch and listen to offline.

(Content availability is subject to change.)

Ratings and reviews

Everytime I open up the app and log in (because I never close the app while logged in because I know how finnicky it can be) and then try to resume a recording I'm in the process of listening to, it closes the app right away before anything can even happen. I don't know if anyone else is having the same problem on an Android, but, like someone else said, this is a paid subscription. There shouldn't be problems like this. There seem to be other people who aren't very happy with it, either.

Straight up doesn't work on the newest Chromecast. Connects, hiccups a bit like it's going to start streaming, and then does nothing. You can't even disconnect from the non-stream in the app - it just displays "no media selected". Staggering that they charge fifteen bucks a month for this service and then let their Android app get over two years out of date.

App is built for an older version of Android. Lots of glitches render much text illegible. It took ages to get working. Appears to be lacking Chromecast integration. A good workaround now that Android has finished integrating screencasting: cast your whole screen to your Chromecast. You have to leave your phone screen awake, so may need to plug in and/or change display settings. Despite these problems, THANK YOU for putting up some free recordings during the covid19 pandemic.

What's new

Back-end updates and bug fixes