Editing Metropolitan Opera (section)

===Television===
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The Met's experiments with television go back to 1948 when a complete performance of [[Giuseppe Verdi|Verdi]]'s ''[[Otello]]'' was broadcast live on [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]-TV with [[Ramón Vinay]], [[Licia Albanese]], and [[Leonard Warren]]. The 1949 season opening night ''Der Rosenkavalier'' was also telecast. In the early 1950s the Met tried a short-lived experiment with live [[closed-circuit television]] transmissions to movie theaters. The first of these was a performance of ''[[Carmen]]'' with [[Risë Stevens]] which was sent to 31 theaters in 27 US cities on December 11, 1952. Beyond these experiments, however, and an occasional gala or special, the Met did not become a regular presence on television until 1977.

In that year the company began a series of live television broadcasts on public television with a wildly successful live telecast of ''[[La bohème]]'' with [[Renata Scotto]] and [[Luciano Pavarotti]]. The new series of opera on [[Public Broadcasting Service|PBS]] was called ''[[Live from the Metropolitan Opera]]''. This series remained on the air until the early 2000s, although the live broadcasts gave way to taped performances and in 1988 the title was changed to ''The Metropolitan Opera Presents''. Dozens of televised performances were broadcast during the life of the series including an historic complete telecast of Wagner's ''[[Der Ring des Nibelungen|Ring Cycle]]'' in 1989. In 2007 another Met television series debuted on PBS, ''[[Great Performances at the Met]]''. This series airs repeat showings of the [[high-definition video]] performances produced for the ''[[Metropolitan Opera Live in HD]]'' cinema series.

In addition to complete operas and gala concerts, television programs produced at the Met have included: an episode of ''[[Omnibus (American TV program)|Omnibus]]'' with Leonard Bernstein ([[NBC]], 1958); ''[[Danny Kaye]]'s Look-In at the Metropolitan Opera'' ([[CBS]], 1975); ''[[Beverly Sills|Sills]] and [[Carol Burnett|Burnett]] at the Met'' (CBS, 1976); and the [[MTV Video Music Awards]] (1999 and 2001).