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product-review sWhen the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic shut down industries across the United States in March 2020, the effects were particularly acute among performing arts organizations. The Metropolitan Opera (the Met), for instance, canceled the final fifty-eight performances of its season, furloughed its musicians indefinitely without pay, and by one estimate lost $150 million in earned revenues while the theater stood dark.1 Perhaps the only bright spot for the company was its online streaming service, Met Opera on Demand (MOD). In the first five weeks of the shutdown, paid subscriptions to the service doubled to 30,000, as opera aficionados sought virtually what they could no longer experience in person.2sThis remarkable shift in operatic consumption is understandable. MOD offers a simple, intuitive interface, accessible via Internet browsers as well as apps on Apple, Android, Roku, and other common devices. Most importantly, it boasts an unparalleled catalog comprising historic and recent radio broadcasts as well as standard- (SD) and high-definition (HD) video recordings. The audio-only broadcasts number more than 500, with the earliest recordings—such as Rosa Ponselle's star turn as Violetta in La Traviata—stretching back to 1935. The SD videos include more than eighty telecasts broadcast live on television from http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of the Society for American Music Cambridge University Press

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Ebright, Ryan
Journal of the Society for American Music , Volume 16 (2): 2 – May 1, 2022
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Cambridge University Press
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Society for American Music
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1752-1971
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sWhen the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic shut down industries across the United States in March 2020, the effects were particularly acute among performing arts organizations. The Metropolitan Opera (the Met), for instance, canceled the final fifty-eight performances of its season, furloughed its musicians indefinitely without pay, and by one estimate lost $150 million in earned revenues while the theater stood dark.1 Perhaps the only bright spot for the company was its online streaming service, Met Opera on Demand (MOD). In the first five weeks of the shutdown, paid subscriptions to the service doubled to 30,000, as opera aficionados sought virtually what they could no longer experience in person.2sThis remarkable shift in operatic consumption is understandable. MOD offers a simple, intuitive interface, accessible via Internet browsers as well as apps on Apple, Android, Roku, and other common devices. Most importantly, it boasts an unparalleled catalog comprising historic and recent radio broadcasts as well as standard- (SD) and high-definition (HD) video recordings. The audio-only broadcasts number more than 500, with the earliest recordings—such as Rosa Ponselle's star turn as Violetta in La Traviata—stretching back to 1935. The SD videos include more than eighty telecasts broadcast live on television from

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