Bongiovanni declined to disclose the revenue from the Met's "Live in HD" broadcasts and online catalog subscriptions but said the company this year projects revenue in the low seven figures across all of its digital activities. Recently added recordings include a legendary 1938 performance of "Tristan und Isolde" by Kirsten Flagstad and Lauritz Melchior that was painstakingly restored, and the Met's 1974 "Death in Venice" with Peter Pears, including an interview with the tenor from the original live broadcast. The catalog includes videos created for "Live in HD" that are available with subtitles in seven languages.įive or six titles are added to the catalog each month, as technicians work to digitize the company's complete recording archives-more than 2,300 radio broadcasts and 168 audiovisual productions preserved in at least a dozen formats. Schools in England, Switzerland and Germany are participating in trials. Those who have signed up include some of the country's top conservatories, as well as Williams College, Columbia University, the University of Southern California and the Sorbonne in Paris. Subscription rates are based on student population and start "in the low thousands" per year, she said. Twenty-six schools have subscribed, and another 27 are participating in trials, offering access to more than 200,000 of students in the U.S. Peter Pears and John Shirley-Quirk in 'Death in Venice' by Benjamin Britten.Īnthony Crickmay/Metropolitan Opera Archives Students, he said, are arriving at rehearsals more familiar with the repertoire they are studying, and faculty listen to the recordings in their offices as they work. "It's like being given the keys to a marvelous private library," said Brian Zeger, artistic director of vocal arts at the Juilliard School, which helped the Met in beta-testing over the summer and is now a subscriber.
The company sent pitch letters to music schools and music libraries over the summer and launched the student catalog in September. The Met's foray into academia has sparked broad interest. The streaming service, launched in 2008, now has some 6,000 subscribers. The Met's general manager, said in an interview earlier this year. That's a kind of unique social-artistic experience," Opera fans, it turns out, have been far more excited by the communal experience of watching "Tosca" at the cinema than browsing a catalog of recordings on their computer or iPad. Placido Domingo in Jeremy Sams's 'The Enchanted Island.'
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