http://www.norway.org/restech/researchnews/verdensteatret+and+the+met.htm

Program:

13.00-13.15 Welcome
13.15-14.15 " Opera on Screen: Transmitting or Producing " by Mark Schubin, Engineer-in-Charge, The Metropolitan Opera, New York
14.15-14.30 Coffee break
14.30-15.00 discussion
15.00-15.30 " Around the Opera - Intermission show, texts etc." by Karen McLaughlin, the intermissions associate director of the Met cinemacasts, The Metropolitan Opera, New York
15.30-16.00 The World Opera : introduction to a vision of a distributed Opera House by Niels Windfeld Lund, The World Opera, Tromsø

Note on Guest speakers:
Mark Schubin has been working professionally in television since 1967 and on opera and music television since 1972. I'm technological consultant to "Live
from Lincoln Center" and the Met's engineer-in-charge. He is a fellow of the Society of Motion-Picture and Television Engineers and have written
hundreds of articles on television technology. He was awarded a U.S. patent for a pay-TV system designed specifically for music programming.

Karen McLaughlin is a Juilliard-trained harpsichordist who has been working on opera and other music on television since the 1970s. She is currently the television directorfor the distance-learning program at Carnegie Hall (one recent project involved musicians collaborating in New York and Bamako, Mali). She is production consultant to "Live from Lincoln Center" and has served as
producer, director, and associate director on many television-music projects. She has also served as an opera-company evaluator for the U.S. National Endowment for the Arts.

They have worked on not only the Met's TV shows but also those shot at Glimmerglass Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Los Angeles Opera, New York City Opera, Opera Company of Philadelphia, San Francisco Opera, Santa Fe Opera, and Washington National Opera (they have also worked at the Paris Opera, the Monaie in Brussels, and Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires but on dance shows). Both have won Emmy Awards for their work.

The World Opera has joined as a partner in the Metropolitan High-definition broadcast project. As announced today at a press conference at the World Theatre (Verdensteatret) we will bring World Class live performances from the Metropolitan Opera to a theathre in Tromsø, Norway, Paris of the North: namely the World Theatre.

The broadcast will be sent per sattelite from New York via England to Norway. There will be six live shows this winter/spring, beginning as soon as December 30, the day before New Years eve, with an English-language version of Mozart's «The Magic Flute»