Why bother getting gussied up, acting all proper-like and messing with those highfalutin glasses when you can have your opera and eat Whoppers, too? Heck, why not even sneak in some booze and play opera drinking games* when a filmed version of the New York Metropolitan Opera’s Peter Grimes is broadcast at five local theaters this weekend? Some sample rules: Drink once every time villagers gang up on the titular Grimes. Drink once every time you wonder why a guy needs a fishing apprentice. Shriek “Oh no, you didn’t!” every time Grimes hits his lady-friend Ellen. Down the entire flask when you realize Grimes contains storylines NAMBLA might support.
Live broadcast March 15 at 10:30 a.m. at the Colonnade, Village Square, Sam’s Town, Orleans and Santa Fe Station. Encore March 16 at noon at Sam’s Town, Orleans and Santa Fe Station. Tickets $15-$22. fathomevents.com.
*Las Vegas Weekly neither supports nor condones unlawful drinking in theaters. Or at workplace computers, either.