Surround Yourself With Renée Fleming

Those of you who get your Saturday-afternoon opera fix with the Metropolitan Opera’s live radio broadcasts have a new option, beginning Dec. 30: The Metropolitan Opera Goes to the Movies. Theaters around the country will present the live broadcasts on high definition screens with surround sound.
The process of navigating through the various web pages to purchase your tickets is a bit complicated. But isn’t it worth a little trouble to be surrounded by the sound of “the dashing young Peruvian tenor Juan Diego Flórez“? Unlike some of the other productions, his “Barber of Seville” (which you may already have previewed on Letterman’s Stupid Met Tricks) is at a theater in Manhattan—at Union Square.
What if you live in Topeka? Not to worry: You’ll have to drive only 50 miles, to Olathe, Kansas. OLANTHE? Who knew?
Let’s see, should I go to Union Square to see Tan Dun‘s new opera, “The First Emperor,” with “legendary tenor Plácido Domingo as Emperor Qin”?
Come to think of it, my closest theater is the Metropolitan Opera House. And I’ve already got my tickets!