I like opera but don’t listen to it much or go to them very often. However, this sounds to me like great news: Sirius Radio is launching a new channel that will play Metropolitan Opera performances, both live and from some 1,500 radio broadcasts recorded during the past eight decades. It would be even better if other productions were included as well, but the Met is very good indeed, and the station should be worth listening to. It’s something that I’d visit every so often if I had their service.

Parenthetical rant:

I get XM with my DirecTV subscription, but I never listen to it because the dirtbags at XM dropped their progressive rock station.

Actually, the prog rock station was pretty crappy anyway, as it was dominated by long performances by jam bands and very little prog. I have nothing against jam bands, mind you, but an actual prog rock station is little enough to ask for, people.