Just in case your appetite for Covent Garden's La bohème is not fully sated, Travelzoo have a half price ticket offer for July performances.
Stalls seats for matinee shows are 'only' £95 (a saving of up to 50%) with the code tzooboheme (case sensitive). Dates applicable are Sunday 13 July (12pm) and Saturday 19 July (2pm).
This is the last chance to see John Copley's production before it finally bows out in 2015.
Sunday 8 June is the date for the first of this year's Glyndebourne not-quite-livestreams.
Der Rosenkavalier can be seen on the Glyndebourne and Daily Telegraph websites (free), and in cinemas (£££). The live show begins at 3.20pm but the streaming doesn't start until 4.30pm so that home audiences are spared most of the extended dinner interval.
The Vienna State Opera are kindly giving Intermezzo readers the chance to try out their live streaming service (normally €14 a pop) for free.
The service, launched in late 2013, offers live opera broadcasts in Full HD. While you're watching, you can switch between the standard multicamera setup with close ups and a fixed full screen view (as if you're sitting in the auditorium). Multilingual subtitles are available on a separate device, and you can choose whether you start the stream live, or delay it for a few hours.
Here's the message from the Vienna State Opera:
The Royal Opera House is to stream the 20 May performance of La traviata live online. This is not the first opera to be streamed from Covent Garden but it is the first to go out as it happens. It will also be shown free on various outdoors screens around the country.
According to the oddly-worded ROH statement, the event "will mark 25 years of support from BP" - does that mean they've paid for it, or not? Whatever, it's unlikely that the ROH will want to cut into their cinema revenues by making a habit of free streaming, so catch it while you can.
The Proms guide, or BBC Proms 2014: The Official Guide
It's not 'released' until the day of the official season announcement, 24 April. However readers have previously reported it being delivered on the release date, if not the day before, giving you the opportunity to whinge about this year's programme hours before anyone else. An unbeatable offer.
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