Throughout its history, the Metropolitan Opera has been at the forefront of adopting new technologies to bring opera to a wider audience. Last year, the company introduced Met Player—an online streaming service available worldwide and offering nearly 200 full-length operas captured live on the Met stage. Most of the operas from the first three seasons of the Met’s groundbreaking Live in HD series are available in stunning high quality, along with 140 historic radio broadcasts and more than 40 televised Met performances, thanks again to the Met’s embrace of the latest technology.

On the occasion of the Met’s 125th anniversary, Met Player, the company’s online streaming service, is the single best destination for revisiting many of the most memorable and noteworthy Met performances! Today the Met Player catalog spans more than 70 years of Met performances, going all the way back to a 1937 performance of Carmen starring Rosa Ponselle in the title role and up through four productions presented in HD during the current season. Here are just a few of the highlights you can find at metplayer.org:

• Risë Stevens sings one of her signature roles in Thomas’s Mignon—a true operatic rarity, not heard at the Met since Stevens last did it in 1949.
• Jussi Björling and Bidú Sayão as the star-crossed lovers in Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette from 1947.
• Renata Tebaldi, Richard Tucker, and Leonard Warren headline Puccini’s Tosca in a radio broadcast from 1956.
• Maria Callas’s only live broadcast from the stage of the Met in Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor from 1956.
• An all-star cast, including Birgit Nilsson, Leonie Rysanek, Christa Ludwig, and Jon Vickers, in a 1968 performance of Wagner’s Die Walküre.
• The legendary pairing of Joan Sutherland and Marilyn Horne in Bellini’s Norma in a radio broadcast from 1970.
• The first televised Met performance, from March 15, 1977, of Puccini’s La Bohème, starring Renata Scotto and Luciano Pavarotti.
• Plácido Domingo’s turn as both Turiddu in Cavalleria Rusticana and Canio in Pagliacci in a televised performance from 1978.
• Leontyne Price’s unforgettable farewell performance as Aida on January 3, 1985.
• The entirety of Otto Schenk’s beloved production of Wagner’s Ring cycle from 1988 and 1989, under the baton of Maestro James Levine, with a cast that includes Hildegard Behrens, Christa Ludwig, Jessye Norman, and James Morris.
• A stylish production of Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro from 1998 starring Renée Fleming as the Countess, Cecilia Bartoli as Susanna, and Bryn Terfel as Figaro.
• The first Live in HD performance from December 2006: Julie Taymor’s hit production of Mozart’s The Magic Flute.

First-time users of Met Player can view free sample clips and sign up for a free 7-day trial of the service. Affordable monthly and annual subscriptions offer unlimited access to everything available on Met Player, while one-time rentals offer an easy way to enjoy one opera at a time. Visit metplayer.org today to explore this exciting new opera destination.