In addition to a synopsis for every opera, many videos include links to regularly-published Metropolitan Opera content such as the In Focus series. Listening to the history of this work at the company provides an unparalleled research tool for scholars of opera and performance practice.Įducational content is linked to the streaming site, as well.

Notably, Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde appears eight times-the earliest performance featuring Kirsten Flagstad and Lauritz Melchior from the 1938 radio broadcast and the most recent featuring Deborah Voigt and Roger Dean Smith in a high-definition performance from 2008.

Many operas are represented by multiple productions. The high-definition catalog alone includes important American works like John Adams’s Nixon in China and Doctor Atomic alongside company premieres like Tan Dun’s The First Emperor, and the baroque pastiche The Enchanted Island. Many important productions are represented. In addition to the streaming video content, there are 336 audio-only productions available dating back to the 1936 broadcast of Wagner’s Götterdammerung.1 Additional video content consists of sixty-eight standard–definition streaming video productions. Many of these productions include the originally-broadcast introductions and intermission interviews with artists.

Currently, the service includes sixty-seven high-definition streaming video productions originally presented through the Met’s Live in HD theater broadcasts, which began in 2006 with Mozart’s The Magic Flute. The student access platform also provides links to curated educational content on the operas, composers, productions, and singers featured in the catalog.Īll of the content presented in the database consists exclusively of Metropolitan Opera productions and curated educational content. This online product provides users with high- and standard-definition video of Metropolitan Opera productions as well as audio from historic Metropolitan Opera broadcasts. After a 2006 launch that was only available to individual subscribers, the Metropolitan Opera has recently made institutional access to their Met on Demand services available through Met Opera on Demand: Student Access.

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