New App From the Metropolitan Opera

Met Opera on Demand, a new iPad application, allows viewers to watch Metropolitan Opera performances. Met Opera on Demand, a new iPad application, allows viewers to watch Metropolitan Opera performances.

April 1, 2012 | Read Time: 1 minute

For more than five years, the Metropolitan Opera has broadcast performances in movie theaters. Now the New York opera company is turning its attention to tablets.

Met Opera on Demand is a new application for the iPad that gives people access to 44 productions that have been part of the “Live in HD” series in movie theaters, as well as hundreds of television and radio broadcasts from the organization’s archives. From now on, “Live in HD” titles will be added to the service two to three months after their premiere in movie theaters.

“We want opera to be as widely available as technology permits,” Peter Gelb, the opera’s general manager, said in a written statement.

While the application is free, gaining access to streaming material requires a subscription. Plans start at $14.95 a month.

For more information: Go to metoperaondemand.org.

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Nicole Wallace is features editor of the Chronicle of Philanthropy. She has written about innovation in the nonprofit world, charities’ use of data to improve their work and to boost fundraising, advanced technologies for social good, and hybrid efforts at the intersection of the nonprofit and for-profit sectors, such as social enterprise and impact investing.Nicole spearheaded the Chronicle’s coverage of Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts on the Gulf Coast and reported from India on the role of philanthropy in rebuilding after the South Asian tsunami. She started at the Chronicle in 1996 as an editorial assistant compiling The Nonprofit Handbook.Before joining the Chronicle, Nicole worked at the Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs and served in the inaugural class of the AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps.A native of Columbia, Pa., she holds a bachelor’s degree in foreign service from Georgetown University.