Countdown to the First Transmission
Posted by Matt Dobkin on 12/30/2006The cable trucks are parked outside the Metropolitan Opera House and set to transmit this afternoon’s live performance of Mozart’s The Magic Flute to an international audience. With minutes to go before this historic global, high-definition event, tickets are sold out in theaters across the U.S., Canada, Europe and Japan. A worldwide audience of 30,000 people will share in the live big-screen experience.
The opera will be seen in approximately 100 cinemas across the globe, as well as two kabuki theaters in Japan. Future live transmissions from the Met are Bellini’s I Puritani starring Anna Netrebko (January 6), Tan Dun’s The First Emperor starring Plácido Domingo (January 13), Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin starring Renée Fleming and Dmitri Hvorostovsky (February 24), Rossini’s The Barber of Seville starring Juan Diego Flórez, Joyce DiDonato, and Peter Mattei (March 24), and Puccini’s Il Trittico featuring a stellar ensemble cast (April 28).
December 30th, 2006 at 6:52 pm
I CAN’T TELL YOU HOW MUCH IT WOULD DO FOR OPERA IF THE MET (THE GREATEST) WAS AVAILABLE ON THE NET TO INDIVIDUALS. I KNOW THERE ARE PROBLEMS WITH COPYRIGHT, BUT I WOULD LOVE TO BE ABLE TO ENJOY PERFORMANCES ON MY HDTV FROM THE NET, LIVE. THINK OF IT. (I’M SURE YOU HAVE)MY EARS ARE SALIVATING! WINE (OR SCOTCH) ON SATURDAY AFTERNOON. OH MY! LOOK, IF PAY PER VIEW ON WWF CAN DO IT SO CAN WE. THERE’S NO REASON TO THINK MET PERFORMANCES WILL TAKE ATTENDANCE AWAY FROM LOCAL PRODUCTONS. THE OPPOSIRE IS MORE LIKELY - WHEN YOU SEE THE GREASTEST, YOU WANT MORE, NOT LESS! TELL YOUR NEW CEO (OR WHAT EVER HIS TITLE IS - HE LOOKS LIKE AN OKAY GUY TO ME). DO IT!