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As it was a Saturday afternoon, the opera was being broadcast worldwide as part of the Metropolitan's broadcast series. Peter Allen was later commended by many observers for keeping up an impressive, nearly entirely improvised, string of commentary during the extended intermission.
Sponsorship of the Saturday afternoon broadcasts by The Texas Company began on December 7, 1940, with a performance of Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro. Texaco's support continued for 63 years, the longest continuous sponsorship in broadcast history, and also included the early PBS television broadcasts.
Saturday Afternoon at the Opera is a Canadian radio programme, which airs Saturday afternoons on CBC Music.The programme airs live and pre-recorded opera concert performances, as well as interviews with opera artists and reviews of opera CDs.
Milton John Cross (April 16, 1897 – January 3, 1975) was an American radio announcer famous for his work on the NBC and ABC radio networks.. He was best known as the voice of the Metropolitan Opera, hosting its Saturday afternoon radio broadcasts for 43 years, from the time of their inception on December 25, 1931, until his death in 1975.
It was an emotional night for composer Andrew Lloyd Webber on Sunday, as the curtain came down one final time for Broadway's The Phantom of the Opera.After a 35-year run and almost 14,000 shows ...
His connection with the Metropolitan Opera began in 1973 when he served as the backup for Milton Cross who had been announcing the Met's Saturday afternoon broadcasts since their inception in 1931. In 1975, after Cross's sudden death, Allen took over as announcer for the Met [3] and continued in the job until 2004. The smooth, intelligent ...