Como haya un tercer cese voy a empezar a pensar que no tiene que ver con nada operístico...

The bar hushed as one of the most dangerous songs to be found on any karaoke machine began to play: Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody.” Its Freddie Mercury high notes and falsetto rock choruses once led Buzzfeed to warn: “Do not attempt without alcohol.”

No Dutch courage was necessary for these singers, though. Those perilous high notes rang out effortlessly (“Galileo!”), and the song’s mock-operatic passages sounded second nature — because they were. These rhapsodists were actually Metropolitan Opera stars, cutting loose on their night off with a slightly different art form on the Saturday of Thanksgiving weekend.
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The ringleaders were the mezzo-soprano Susan Graham and the tenor Paul Groves, who had spent the day rehearsing Lehar’s “The Merry Widow,” which runs at the Met through Jan. 11. In recent years they have made a habit of organizing let-your-hair-down karaoke nights with castmates around their appearances together in cities including Paris, Chicago, San Francisco and New Orleans.

The singers found themselves trading lines in “Bohemian Rhapsody” with the ebullient tenor Barry Banks and rocking out with air guitar solos that would have been right at home in the movie “Wayne’s World.” When the bar door opened and the mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton (currently starring in a revival of “Norma”) walked in, they pulled her to a microphone just in time to join them for the song’s melancholy “nothing really matters” finale. They basked in the whoops and cheers of colleagues and strangers alike.