Met Opera Radiois on the move! You’ll now find it on Channel 355, with classic performances, arias, oratorios, and more by opera’s greatest composers and artists. Enjoy broadcasts and performances from beloved
• More than 600 radio broadcast performances dating back to 1935, representing nearly all of the most popular operas ever composed and many of the greatest singers in Met history including Björling, Callas, Corelli, Horne, Nilsson, Sutherland, Tebaldi, Te Kanawa, and Tucker ...
Alastair Macaulay attended the opening night of Richard Jones’s The Valkyries at English National Opera, heading soon to the Met. Here’s his exclusive review for Slippedisc.com:Richard Jones’s new production of Wagner’s “The Valkyrie” deliberately strips this music drama of grandiosity or ...
The symphonic poem “Shattyk otany” (homeland of joy) earned recognition at the World Festival of Youth and Students in Bucharest and was awarded the National Prize named after Zhambyl a year later. This symphony was broadcast daily by Kazakh Radio for 25 years starting in 1953. ...
worldwide arena draw performing SRO events around the world. Having performed together for more than 40 years, TOTO remains one of the top selling touring and recording acts in the world. The band’s repertoire continues to be current via high profile usage on both broadcast television and in...
Widely hailed as one of science fiction’s most beloved masterpieces, this richly detailed space opera partly set on a desert planet is less known as springing from the Pacific Northwest. Herbert, a resident of Port Townsend, was inspired by the sand dunes of Florence, Oregon, to create a ...
START-UP AT THE NEW MET: The Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcasts, 1966-1976Miller, James
Part I. Focuses on the development of radio opera in the United States. Contribution of Iowa-born Lee De Forest in the history of broadcast opera; United States station that made history by broadcasting an opera; Creation of the National Broadcasting Company in the fall of 1926.McPherson...
In all these electronic new beginnings, it's ironic that the future of the Met's original franchise, the Saturday afternoon radio broadcasts, has been in doubt since Texaco pulled its sponsorship a couple of years back. The broadcasts have continued on the Toll Brothers-Metropolitan Opera ...