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[7] [8] As network radio waned with the rise of television, the Met founded its own independent Metropolitan Opera Radio Network in 1960, which is now heard on radio stations around the world. The Met's first live closed-circuit television transmission was Carmen with Rise Stevens , sent to 31 movie theaters in 27 US cities on December 11, 1952.
Metropolitan Opera Radio may refer to: Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts, weekly Saturday live broadcasts from New York City's Metropolitan Opera;
Metropolitan Opera Radio is an all-opera radio station on Sirius Satellite Radio channel 75 [1] (previously 78) and XM Satellite Radio channel 75 [2] (previously 79). Originally on channel 85, Met Opera Radio was shifted to channel 78 on June 24, 2008. In December 2020 it was moved again — this time to channel 355. It is also on Dish Network ...
The Metropolitan Opera is an American opera company based in New York City, currently resident at the Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center, situated on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Referred to colloquially as "the Met" [ a ] , the company is operated by the non-profit Metropolitan Opera Association, with Peter Gelb as the general ...
Debra Lew Harder (born 1960 or 1961) is an American pianist and radio announcer and host of the Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts. Harder was named as the fifth host of the broadcasts in 2021, succeeding the retiring Mary Jo Heath. Harder was previously an announcer for classical music on radio station WRTI in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Edward Olin Davenport Downes (August 12, 1911 – December 26, 2001) was an American musicologist, professor, radio personality, and music critic. [1] [2] He was the host of the Texaco Opera Quiz on the Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts for nearly forty years. [1] These broadcasts were heard across North America and Europe. [2]
Peter Allen (born Harold Levy; September 17, 1920 – October 8, 2016) was a Canadian-born American broadcaster and radio announcer, noted for hosting the Saturday afternoon radio broadcasts of the Metropolitan Opera for some 29 years.
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