We have lift off... #metgala

Peter Gelb begins strongly by saying “Anita Rachvelishveli” without hesitation

I cannot quite shake off the idea that Piotr Beczala has a Bond villain lair in this “small remote Polish village”

Starting “in the Stockholm archipelago” has a definite Eurovision vibe

Wait who is the pianist in the Alagnas’ house

Forget the Elisir, Alagna is already hammered and frankly fair play #metathomegala

All I’m saying is Angela and her dentist will struggle to do better than this

The Alagnas have a double photo on the wall but I am hoping someone like Sonya Yoncheva will have a full length portrait in oils

OVER TO THE TBLISI JURY HELLO ANITA

Is that her husband, boyfriend or security guy on the piano

NO AUTOGRAPHS

I guess we all feel a bit like Lensky right now.
(And also, good news, it’s still safe to have a duel to the death if you shoot from two metres away)

Adore Renée’s house, can we have a full tour. Even the bathrooms are going to be spectacular

Is that a Cy Twombly?

Respect to the Met musician with a moose skull on the wall

(She’s in the bottom left quadrant)

It might be a cow. Perhaps a relic of a Zeffirelli Carmen.

Surprise Joyce was on my bingo card!!!

Your semi-regular reminder that Jonas Kaufmann unfortunately sounds like the Swedish chef from the Muppets (but not when singing, thankfully)

In case you’re wondering, I don’t think Helmut Deutsch lives with Jonas Kaufmann - social distancing rules have changed in Germany

But I can’t rule it out, as he does have form
https://twitter.com/nfmusic/status/1081167247492743174?s=21 https://twitter.com/nfmusic/status/1081167247492743174

Ballsy choice, Jonas, ballsy choice
#metathomegala

Oh good the first of our tax exiles in Switzerland

Briefly thought Maestri lived with Roberto Benigni but it’s Marco Armiliato.

You get a lot of space for your £ in Connecticut. Willing to buy off plan.

Well *that* was someone who had their weetabix.

A lot going on in the Elza van der Heever cabinet of curiosities

I bet: Fuor del Mar.
We got: Danny Boy
#Metathomegala

The Polenzani family lasagne can now be served

Is that a caricature of Garanca behind her?

*clutches ringbinders suggestively*

Altogether now: “doppelte Geiger, herr Direktor, muss ma’zahlen”...

We’re up! Hello Bryn! 12 points to us!

Easter didn’t come in late. That joke doesn’t work sorry.

I am very much going with @jbartonmezzo’s Eboli, and for extra meaning am imagining the yucca plant is the Grand Inquisitor

Ok, let’s just finish the whole of Don Carlo while we’re at it. Who’s doing the Caballé scream?

Some of us moved their nanny in, you moved in your accompanist no one is allowed to judge

That is the old Met behind Angel Blue.

Delighted to say a) @EPWilliamson has made me a gin, and b) I’m now casting this to my TV.

The Rene Pape shagpad. Come on we’re all thinking it

Renée and Réne win the homes and interiors awards so far

Oh the Moscow wallpaper is everything we wanted from Moscow wallpaper

MALTESE FISHTANK KLAXON

Can we just briefly cut to Renee, now in her evening gown, lighting the candles, popping the Cristal.

Wait how did Costanzo get a whole miniature baroque ensemble

I’ve worked it out. The head on the piano is a joke about “da capo”.

The thing is, Yoncheva was probably also wearing this to clean the downstairs lav.

I will also defend *anyone* who adds the hairdresser to their household ahead of quarantine rules

Wait, is that Joe Exotic with the cowboy hat? #metathomegala

Cimbasso stole it.

Nadine, the velociraptors are behind you! In the jungle foliage!

Can I break character and say she’s really, really wonderful?

I have so many questions. The curtains made of doily. The chandelier. The low ceiling.

Let’s do Onegin right here!

Now there seems to be a chandelier on the kitchen table

The electric guitar is so tantalising. Prog rock interlude between aria and cabaletta?

Drains his beer like a boss.

I think we have all fallen in love with Gunther Groissböck.

Nooooooooooooooooooo

No Trebs, just Mr Trebs and a pianist with blue hair.

To think, if Grigolo hadn’t been fired we’d probably be seeing inside his house.

The world:
Wish I was quarantined with him/her

I like it when singers say other singers are “rising stars.” It has a pleasing whiff of froideur

Nifty tech means in Baton Rouge we can actually see the pre-recorded pianist!

I think the moral of all this is find yourself a man who is either a baritone or plays the piano or paid for the house

I’m sort of imagining that this will continue now until the end of quarantine/recorded time with the face of Peter Gelb cueing in opera singers across the time zones

I STILL HAVE MY CABALETTA BASTARDS

THANK YOU ZURICH JURY DOBRE VECER PLEASE

Trebs! Back for her finale. She’s fixed the Skype and had a vodka.

(Well, pre recorded).

Having laughed along and been taken to many other places for four hours, I am donating to the Met.
#MetAtHomeGala.