Met Opera to step up live broadcasts in season of classics

2015/02/19 01:16:24 @Entertainment News Headlines — Yahoo! News

New York & #039;s Metropolitan Opera aims to reach a wider audience as it steps up live broadcasts to cinemas around the world during an upcoming season that features six new productions. Next year will mark one decade since the Met launched live broadcasts into cinemas, an idea that initially struck some purists as offbeat but which the opera house says now pulls in a global audience of 250,000 per performance. Met general manager Peter Gelb, who has championed the initiative known as & quot;The Met: Live in HD, & quot; said that the broadcasts have helped attract a younger audience by showing the immediacy of opera.
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