Saturday Afternoon at the Opera, which airs the Met performances, along with European and Canadian programming. And I'm not alone in that." Although his attempts to found an opera club at his local high school failed - the other kids didn't know what opera was - Hamilton was hooked.īut with classical-music institutions facing financial difficulties and dwindling audiences across the continent, is opera on the radio an idea whose time has passed? Not according to Robert Cooper, executive producer of the CBC's But it was the Met broadcasts that got me going on opera. I was 12 - I was already studying the piano, and I had a sister who sang. "I first heard Met broadcasts in 1943, in Regina, Sask. "The broadcasts have been of inestimable value in developing opera in Canada," says Toronto-based singing coach Stuart Hamilton, who has frequently appeared as an intermission panelist on opera broadcasts.
Met general manager Joseph Volpe has since said he is determined to find a sponsor to put up $7-million (U.S.) to keep the broadcasts alive, which in Canada are heard coast to coast on CBC radio. announced earlier this week that it will end its 63-year-old sponsorship of the Met's Saturday afternoon opera broadcasts next year.
The opera world has been rocked by the announcement that New York's Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts are under threat.ĬhevronTexaco Corp.
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