Peter Mattei as Lincoln, Joshua Blue as Thomas Havens, and Janai Brugger as Mrs. Francis Hodge in Missy Mazzoli’s “Lincoln in the Bardo.” Photo: Karen Almond / Met Opera

“This broadcast –the first of its kind for the Met on YouTube,” says the Met Press Office, “will support the company’s $1.5 billion Make the Met Forever fundraising campaign, inviting viewers to donate and interact via live chat.”

Of course, members of cher public are no strangers to sounding off in real time — our chatroom will be open and ready to receive your thoughts on the Met’s most anticipated world premiere in years and what our critic Sylvia Korman called “a lushly scored and beautifully sung little slice of death.”

The sold-out final performance — which features Peter Mattei, Christine Goerke, Anthony Roth Costanzo, Jonah Hoskins, Ryan McKinny, and Yannick Nézet-Séguin — will include a brief documentary about the making of the opera by Dua Lipa‘s “global cultural platform, Service95” during the intermission.