Classical Opera On American Television As Well As Radio? Public Broadcasting System (PBS) Launches Great Performances @ The Metropolitan Opera House

Opera on Film: Great Performances at the Met: "The Magic Flute" (Condensed)
Air date: January 24, 2007 9 PM (check local listings)

Opera on Film: Great Performances at the Met: "I Puritani"
Air date: February 2007 (check local listings)

Opera on Film: Great Performances at the Met: "The First Emperor"
Air date: March 2007 (check local listings)

Opera on Film: Great Performances at the Met: "Eugene Onegin"
Air date: April 2007 (check local listings)

Opera on Film: Great Performances at the Met: "The Barber of Seville"
Air date: May 2007 (check local listings)

Opera on Film: Great Performances at the Met: "Il Trittico"
Air date: June 2007 (check local listings)

Major corporate support for Great Performances at the MET is provided by Toll Brothers, America's Luxury Homebuilders, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Corporation for Public broadcasting, the Charles E. Culpeper Foundation, the Arthur F. and Alice E. Adams Charitable Foundation, Miami, Florida, and PBS.


Source: PBS/WNET














American singer Nathan Gunn, as Papageno in The Magic Flute, leads 21st century American television viewers, and American culture as a whole, into uncharted and mythic territory.

Photo credits: Ken Howard/The Metropolitan Opera via PBS Great Performances @ The MET homepage. With thanks.