Continuing our search for virtual entertainment and educational content during this time of “social distancing”, the Law Library’s hope is that these resources provide opportunities for community engagement at home. For more free access, see our featured guide, Continuing Mission: To Explore Our World.

Metropolitan Opera Live in HD!
The Met is offering a nightly series of free web streams that will bring opera to audiences while the house is dark. For the duration of the Met’s closure, an encore presentation from the company’s Live in HD series will be made available from 7:30 pm ET until 3:30 pm ET the following day.

#ASonnetADay
Sir Patrick Stewart reading William Shakespeare’s sonnets… Can it get any better than this? To follow Sir Patrick on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SirPatStew.

Great Performances
PBS is providing access to five of its standout Great Performances productions: including Noel Coward’s Present Laughter, Much Ado About Nothing, Red, The Sound of Music, and Harold Prinace: The Director’s Life.

Penn State Presents!
Scheduled April 9-12, 2020 performances by Penn State performing arts students, alumni and “special guests”.

Digital Concert Hall
Let the Berliner Philharmoniker come to you during this pandemic to receive free access to all concerts and films (use the voucher code BERLINPHIL).

NPR Music
NPR Music is compiling a list of (mostly) free live audio and video streams from around the world, categorized by date and genre, with links out to streaming platforms such as Facebook, Instagram and YouTube. NPR is updating the list daily.

The Shows Must Go On!
Love Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musicals? Watch them online for free every Friday evening at 7:00 pm, starting April 3. The first streaming musical is Joseph and the Technicolor Coat. Other shows will include Cats, Jesus Christ Superstar, The Phantom of the Opera, Love Never Dies, and more!

NY Phil Plays On
Welcome to the new portal of free digital content from The New York Philharmonic. The symphony orchestra is making 150 hours of its performance footage, both new and past, available during the pandemic while its doors are closed, and will be releasing more as it becomes available.

GRAMMY’s Museum at Home
The GRAMMY Museum now offers its archives of music, interviews, and educational content available to the public.