Quite an accomplishment as audiences in more than 800 local venues across North America enjoy the best seats in the house for the Metropolitan Opera’s 125th season which furthers the Metropolitan's mission of opera for the masses. SES AMERICOM and All Mobile Video are delivering a series of live Met performances to hundreds of theaters and thousands of fans across the U.S. and Canada. Productions from the Met’s entire new season, which includes Doctor Atomic and Madama Butterfly, will air live in HD via satellite on big screens on select Saturday afternoons through spring. Every seat in the theater provides a great view. SES AMERICOM satellites and programming distribution expertise combined with All Mobile Video’s event video and audio production team and technologies have made the lofty program a reality for the Met Opera and opera fans across North America.

“We’ve combined the latest satellite transport and mobile video and audio production technologies to open the doors to the Met Opera to thousands of people who otherwise wouldn’t ever see these amazing performances,” said Lenny Laxer, vice president of operations for All Mobile Video, which has also recently tapped SES AMERICOM’s satellite fleet to deliver live television news coverage of hurricane damage, political conventions and the highly anticipated, upcoming U.S. presidential election. “We put all of our satellite transport eggs in one basket, because SES AMERICOM has always delivered with the reliable bandwidth we need, whenever we need it.”

“A front row seat at the Metropolitan Opera has long been just a dream for thousands of opera enthusiasts around the world,” said Bryan McGuirk, senior vice president of media services for SES AMERICOM. “SES AMERICOM is proud to be working with the event production leaders at All Mobile Video to make that dream come true by bringing the Metropolitan Opera and all of its incredible sights and sounds to local U.S. and Canadian theater audiences live in HD. It’s just like being there.”

The Met: Live in HD performances are also rebroadcast to the same theaters at various times throughout the season, allowing more opera enthusiasts to enjoy the very best in the big stage on the big screen at their local theater. The Met’s 2008-09 opera season kicked off with a performance that was broadcast via satellite to jumbo screens in Time Square on September 22. The Met: Live in HD performances from the 2007-08 season are now available on DVD and have aired on PBS nationwide.