Feeling stressed over finals?  Your problems will seem small compared to the mayhem, murder, madness, and more seen each week on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.  Dial up a little schadenfreude by watching and listening to the hundred of performances now available to you through the Met Opera on Demand.

Metropolitan Opera House
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This new service offers more than 600 full-length Metropolitan Opera performances, with more than 90 HD video performances as well as classic telecasts from the 1970s, 80s, and 90s and audio from radio broadcasts back to 1935.  Browse by opera title, by composer, or search for specific artists.  See and hear Leontyne Price in Aida or Samuel Ramey in Nabucco, Watch Franco Zeffirelli’s gorgeous production of Turandot or the German Expressionist images in Lulu. Have your heart broken by Madame Butterfly and that physics final won’t seem so bad.  Good luck on finals!