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Live Transmissions from Metropolitan Opera in New York in Czech Cinemas

Czech cinema-goers will be able to enjoy live broadcasts from the Metropolitan opera in New York already later this year. The project named Metropolitan Opera: Live in HD, which covers live transmission of some selected performances given at that world-known opera house, was launched in 2006, when performances were broadcast live from the MET to cinemas in North America, Europe, and Japan. The possibility of watching live performances by top artists at the prestigious New York stage immediately aroused major audience response, resulting in hopelessly sold out cinema houses. The transmissions have been executed via the satellite in the highest available HD (high-definition) video and 3D 5.1 sound quality.

Mr Peter Gelb, the general manager of the Metropolitan Opera in New York comments on the project: “We are very pleased by the enthusiastic reception to the Met’s HD series, which has increased the opportunity for audiences around the world to experience the art form in a new way. He added that MET’s agreement with its partner in the Czech Republic would bring the excitement of live opera to people in Eastern Europe and in particular in Prague, which is a city with an outstanding opera tradition dating back several centuries.”

The live transmissions to the Czech Republic have been initiated by Jednota hudebního divadla (Musical Theatre Society). ”The Musical Theatre Society, thanks to its Musical Theatre Festival OPERA has been enriching the operatic life in Prague since the beginning of the 1990’s”, says Mr Josef Herman, Chairman of the Musical Theatre Society. “The project Metropolitan Opera: Live in HD is thus considered a logical enhancement of our activities. We firmly believe that top arts presented by the Metropolitan Opera in New York, after reaching the Czech Republic via the satellite orbiting around the Earth, will please all Czech opera lovers, and that it would at the same time ripple the dead Czech opera waters.”

Detailed information about the places in the Czech Republic where the live transmissions would take place will be published shortly. The first transmission is to take place on December 15, 2007, of the opera Romeo et Juliette by Charles Gounod, with Anna Netrebko and Robert Alagna, under the baton of Plácido Domingo.

The Prague State Opera is the marketing partner of the project in the Czech Republic

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