Metropolitan Opera Offers New App for for iPads March 13, 2012, 4:00 pm Now you can prop yourself up in bed with Aida, Salome and Gilda. The Metropolitan Opera said on Tuesday that it was extending its opera on-demand service to iPads through a new app. The app is free but the streaming service starts at $14.99 a month, giving viewers access to several hundred radio and television broadcasts and more recent "Live in HD" transmissions to movie theaters, with more to be added regularly. The Met already provides an on-line streaming service through its Web site.