Do Opera Screenings Cannibalise Opera Audiences?
English Touring Opera claims live cinema screenings do not grow the audience for opera, but research paints a mixed picture and the ECA defends existing practices. …
IHS Technology: Event Cinema Develops Into a Global Sector
IHS and Rentrak provide analysis of Event Cinema revenues in eight territories. The Event Cinema sector has been around for many years, with experiments taking place as soon as digital projection was a workable reality. Digital conversion has acted as…
Metropolitan Opera Announces “Live in HD” Series For 2015-16 Season
The annual announcement of The Metropolitan Opera’s upcoming season is always certain to spur a bit of highbrow cultural reportage among media outlets that go for that sort of thing. Such was the case today when The Met revealed the…
Opera Screenings Do Not Drive Actual Opera Attendance, Study Finds
A UK study just released has found that screening opera in cinemas is not boosting the interest to attend performances in actual opera venues. The research would seem to provide ammunition to those who claim that event cinema screenings of…
Daily Cinema Digest – Tuesday 29 April 2014
Canada: With shopping malls falling out of favour with US consumers, an interesting example from Canada Washington state of how to successfully convert underutilized shopping real estate to a successful multiplex. For example, in 2012, mall officials replaced a two-story Mervyn’s…
China Embraces Event Cinema With ‘Turandot’ and 3D ‘Farewell My Concubine’ (CJ EXCLUSIVE)
China’s two major opera houses are joining the ranks of distinguished institutions like the Met Opera and the Royal Opera House with the first recordings and screenings of their operas. Beijing’s National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) recording of Puccini’s…
Opera Industry Voices Concern Over Movie Theatre Broadcasts
Many who know me are aware what a big opera buff I am. I’ve held a subscription to the Los Angeles Opera‘s annual season for at least the past five years, and when I travel I make a point of…
Financials of Met Simulcasts Revealed
It’s no secret that with the success of the Metropolitan Opera’s high definition simulcasts into movie theatres, first rate opera companies around the world have jumped on the alternative content bandwagon and struck deals to have their performances beamed to…
DDCinema Beams Opera To European Cinemas
On Sunday January 27th, Distribution Digital Cinema (DDCinema), the joint venture between XDC, Qubo and Dynamic, jump started their operations by broadcasting a live performance of composer Arrigo Boito’s opera “Mefistofele” from the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, Italy to 19…
2007 – the Year of Opera at the Movies
If there was one true surprise in the digital cinema industry this year it was that people were prepared to pay a premium for a night at the opera at their local multiplex. It was the New York Metropolitan Opera…