Metropolitan Opera Summer HD Festival

Keep your fingers crossed for clear skies and cool breezes as the Met brings back its popular series of free encore screenings of its theatrical HD broadcasts. This year's lineup includes La traviata (Aug 24), Lucia di Lammermoor (Aug 25), The Tempest (Aug 26), Otello (Aug 27), La clemenza di Tito (Aug 28), La damnation de Faust (Aug 29), Maria Stuarda (Aug 30), Manon (Aug 31), Un ballo in maschera (Sept 1) and Aida (Sept 2).