Well, March 2020 certainly has been interesting, hasn't it? ::) :P :-X ::)
I think I'm glad the month is over, if only because that means we are a little bit closer to the end of social distancing. I know I'm glad to have the forum and our occasional discussions.
Many places have added streaming to help entertain us. The latest email I got from the Taronga Zoo in Sydney is that they now have three webcams and some zookeeper chats. You can find them here at Taronga TV (https://taronga.org.au/taronga-tv). What is nice about this is that Sydney is 13 hours ahead of me so I can watch their animals when it is night here.
I finally watched the Met's entire LePage Ring cycle online over four nights last week, along with Susan Froemke's making-of documentary, Wagner's Dream, on Sunday.
At that time it seemed as though their entire video archive had been opened up for free viewing, at least if you entered it through a certain slightly roundabout sequence of pages. But now they've either closed the gap, or I'm just misremembering those specific steps and therefore not navigating them properly, because I can no longer seem to get past the subscription paywall.
They are, however, offering a free week to lure new VOD subscribers. And if even that seems like too much of a commitment, they're also streaming one free opera every night (https://www.metopera.org/season/on-demand/) (which remains viewable-on-demand until the following night), so maybe I'll tune back in and catch a few more. It's been a very long time -- childhood, more or less -- since I really explored opera with any regularity; my total in-person trips to the Met since I moved here thirty years ago number roughly three. (I fared only slightly better with City Opera: maybe four or five visits over the years, and at least one of those was a musical -- 110 in the Shade, which first brought Karen Ziemba to my attention as a radiant and sympathetic Lizzie -- while another was the recent Candide revival a year or two ago, whatever genre you want to call that; operetta, I guess).