Met Opera on Demand

Met Opera on Demand

By Metropolitan Opera Association, Inc.

Score: 3.4
3.4
From 5 Ratings

Description

Start your 7-day Free Trial or subscribe now in the app, through your iTunes account! Met Opera on Demand delivers instant and unlimited streaming of more than 850 full-length Metropolitan Opera performances on your iPad & iPhone—and on your HDTV or connected sound system as well via Apple TV with AirPlay. The Met Opera on Demand iPad/iPhone app is free to download. Explore the app and the catalog, and enjoy a sampling of free preview content. Now you can sign-up for the 7-day Free Trial or purchase a subscription right inside the app for complete and unlimited access to everything available. Highlights of this unparalleled collection of opera performances include: • More than 180 presentations from every season of the Met’s award-winning "Live in HD" series of global movie-theater transmissions, featuring opera superstars Roberto Alagna, Natalie Dessay, Joyce DiDonato, Renée Fleming, Juan Diego Flórez, Elīna Garanča, Jonas Kaufmann, Anna Netrebko, Deborah Voigt, and many more • Classic Met telecasts dating from 1977, including "Aida" starring Leontyne Price, "La Bohème" starring Luciano Pavarotti and Renata Scotto, and more • More than 600 radio broadcast performances dating back to 1935, representing nearly all of the most popular operas ever composed and many of the greatest singers in Met history including Björling, Callas, Corelli, Horne, Nilsson, Sutherland, Tebaldi, Te Kanawa, and Tucker All Met Opera on Demand videos include English subtitles, and many recent HD performances also include subtitles in French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish, as well as English Closed Captions (CC.) Videos released 2022 and later will also include Audio Description (AD). Subscribers can use AirPlay to watch all videos with the full offering of multi-language subtitles on their TV via Apple TV. New operas are added every month. The app also offers a “Continue Watching and Listening” feature that allows you to stop at any time and resume right where you left off whenever you’re ready. You can bookmark your favorite performances for easy access at any time as well. If you subscribe in the app: Met Opera on Demand offers two auto-renewing subscription types available for purchase through your iTunes Account: Monthly (with a free 7-day trial for first time purchasers) and Annual. Payment will be charged (after any free trial period, if applicable) to your iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase, at the price listed under "Choose Your Offer" (currently $14.99 US Dollars for a Monthly subscription and $149.99 US Dollars for an Annual subscription.) Depending on your App Store country or region, prices might be listed and payments charged in your local currency, US Dollars, or Euros. Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your iTunes Account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period, and identify the cost of the renewal. Subscriptions may be managed by the user and the auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user’s Account Settings after purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription. The Metropolitan Opera’s Terms & Conditions (http://www.metopera.org/user-information/terms-and-conditions/) and Privacy Policy (http://www.metopera.org/user-information/privacy-policy/) also apply.

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Reviews

  • App has gone downhill

    1
    By Rigolettosdaughter
    I used to love watching operas on this app. It was seamless to watch an opera, easy to continue watching an opera that I had not yet finished, and the quality was wonderful. Now my continue watching queue is wiped out and if I have to stop in the middle of an opera, when I go back to the video (after having to search for it again), it doesn’t pick up where I’ve left off. The worst quality is that the app stops at the end of each track so I have to keep hitting play throughout the opera. The app works fine on my Roku and it seems to be okay on my laptop (when I watch through the met opera website); however, on my iPhone it is a mess. I don’t know what the developer did, or what they were trying to achieve, but they have ruined this app. It is such a shame since the content that is available is priceless. What isn’t priceless is the $15 I pay a month for a now unusable app. Please go back to the old version. It was perfect.
  • Crashes

    1
    By Dis is Stephen
    Crashes constantly Updated and it still crashes nonstop please fix
  • I just want to watch opera

    1
    By Calikola
    The functionality of the app is terrible. God forbid I get logged out of it, I’ll have to wait until the planets align again before I’ll be able to log back in again.
  • Letdown for Audiophiles

    3
    By whabib
    There is a lot to love about the app and service if you are an opera fan, but I have on gripe for at least the TV OS app: while watching an opera, I can't Airplay the sound through my stereo system. Every other app I've used can do this, but this app fails. It seems like you'd want to cater to an audiophile audience with this app.
  • Disaster

    1
    By Mesa Diego
    The previous version worked very well. I’m not sure if developers have actually tried the new version. It’s a disaster. Doesn’t work well on landscape, difficult to find the videos, must press play at the start of each number. That is ridiculous. I don’t get it!
  • Annoying.

    1
    By TikiUWS
    I bit the bullet to join the app and can’t open anything without being prompted to register. Which I’d already done. It is SO frustrating!! Now I remember that I’ve had this experience before and so I had to cancel. Now I’ve rejoined and still can’t open something to watch and hear. If anyone has advice, please share!
  • You Ruined this App

    1
    By jby24
    I have watched hundreds of hours of opera on this app over almost a decade. The app is now unwatchable. It no longer plays in landscape mode on my iPad. “Full screen” is now barely 1/3d of the screen. The quality of the picture is worse, and I couldn’t get the substitutes to appear. If this would have been the quality of the app nine years ago, I never would have signed up.
  • Have you guys just given up?

    1
    By whabib
    Obviously the content can’t be beat, but you realize that people who subscribe to this are probably really into, you know, high quality audio? What can’t the Apple TV app airplay it’s audio to a higher quality source?
  • Doesn’t Play on Samsung Smart TV

    1
    By bkd1
    By far the worst app I have ever had. Poorly built, NO tech support- expensive and frustrating! I DO NOT RECOMMEND THIS APP FOR TV NOR WOULD I TAKE A YEARLY SUBSCRIPTION! Don’t tell me it’s the speed. Everything else works well on my tv. Your app does not. It’s a ripoff.
  • version 2.3.2 still buggy

    1
    By mKaneJeeves
    For audio-only performances, the track list does not update the “now playing” label’s location. It just sits on the first track. Two versions ago, a bug-free version that worked beautifully on audio-only performances, “now playing” updated continuously and accurately. If play is started from the performance banner’s play arrow, one track plays, and then stops. For continuous play, the performance must be started from the track list. Two versions ago, this app was fine. Now it’s very annoying. Please fix posthaste!!

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