LB’s Rambles: Fandom of the Opera

Here is another nice write up from Les Blatt about Thursday’s breakfast featuring Mark Schubin

October 29, 2009

Fandom of the Opera

If you enjoy opera, and you’re curious about the technologies involved in producing and distributing the Metropolitan Opera to television, movie theaters and mobile devices, you would have enjoyed a breakfast this morning featuring Mark Schubin. He’s a Fellow of the Society of Motion Picture & Television Engineers (SMPTE) and also the engineer in charge of the Met’s media department.

Schubin was the featured speaker at one of Bill Sobel’s SobelMedia breakfasts at the Samsung Experience in NYC, presenting a lively talk and slideshow called “Fandom of the Opera.” If you think that opera occupies a relatively small and obscure niche in our culture, Schubin will disabuse you of that notion. Some of those live broadcasts have reached as high as #11 at the box office in the weekly movie attendance figures – and that’s impressive (not to mention lucrative). Super Bowl popularity? No. But pretty impressive all the same.

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