Gelb began to concoct the idea of expanding the Met's reach electronically even before he took over as general manager in 2006. As head of the American division of Sony Classical, he watched ...

The Metropolitan Opera, the largest opera company in the United States, is struggling. Its ticket sales are way down — to 66 percent of capacity last season. Its general director, Peter Gelb, has had ...

(click thumbnail)The Metropolitan Opera launched its HD theater presentations with "The Magic Flute" on Dec. 30.Shortly after Peter Gelb became general manager of the New York City Metropolitan Opera ...

On a Saturday afternoon last December, I picked up my ticket for the Metropolitan Opera’s Falstaff and hurried down the backstage corridors to a trailer behind Lincoln Center. The crew of Live in HD, ...

World Cup soccer wasn't the only HD coming out of Germany last week. European satellite firm SES Astra said the German-French public channel Arte broadcast in HD for the first time last week, using ...

The Metropolitan Opera’s annual Summer HD Festival will return to Lincoln Center Plaza in New York City starting tonight, Friday, August 22, through September 1. LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - DECEMBER 12: ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... What began in December 2006 as a daring idea to bring live, high-definition broadcasts of Metropolitan Opera productions into movie theaters worldwide has ...

Summer reruns are not limited to your favorite prime-time TV shows. Opera fans also will have another opportunity to see performances they might have missed the first time around —or productions they ...

You just know that if times are tough for consumer electronics, they're really bleak for public schools. With that in mind, we're calling out the bright spot that is The Metropolitan Opera's "HD Live ...