But we have the opportunity now to welcome in everyone who has reached out to us in this time and think about creative ways to keep engaged.” A TREASURE TROVE OF ARCHIVAL CONTENT “What we want more than anything, and I think our audience wants more than anything, is that we return to performing on our stage, hopefully as quickly as we can. It’s changed the game in some sense for us,” says Mia Bongiovanni, Assistant General Manager of Media at the Metropolitan Opera.

It has completely expanded our audience in such wonderful and exciting ways. “The combination of the arts and technology is pretty powerful.

For the Met, rising to the challenge of the past year has meant using video to unlock new ways to engage fans, monetize content, and grow its audience, even with its entire performance season cancelled. So what happens when that connection is broken? Can it be made in other ways?Īnswering those questions takes creativity, which, fortunately, performing arts organizations have an abundance of. An audience’s enthusiasm pushes performers to new heights, which only intensifies the audience’s reaction. Outside of the free viewing window, these productions may be available for a rental fee.There's a special connection between performers and their audience, an almost electric energy that flows between them. To access them without logging in, click “Browse and Preview” in the apps for connected TV, and “Explore the App” on tablets and mobile devices. The streams are also available through the Met Opera on Demand apps for Apple, Amazon, and Roku devices and Samsung Smart TV. The schedule will include outstanding complete performances from the past 14 years of cinema transmissions, starring all of opera’s greatest singers. Each day, a different encore presentation from the company’s Live in HD series is being made available for free streaming on the Met website, with each performance available for a period of 23 hours, from 7:30pm Eastern / 4:30pm Pacific until 6:30pm Eastern / 3:30pm Pacific the following day. From April 3, 2003.ĭuring this extraordinary and difficult time, the Met hopes to brighten the lives of our audience members even while our stage is dark. Starring Deborah Voigt, Natalie Dessay, Susanne Mentzer, and Richard Margison, conducted by James Levine.

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