

13, might well have been a mix of singing and static. One of the reporters asked what the Morse code said, and it was, 'I have just taken my beer and now I take my seat.' " One of the radiotelegraph operators did not abide by the silence code, and there were crackles of static coming from his transmission of Morse code. "But on the 13th, the inventor of the equipment used to pick up the opera decided that he should invite the press. 12 experiment, and they did," Schubin says.

"The inventor who had arranged for the broadcast, Lee de Forest, had asked the radiotelegraph operators if they would kindly refrain from transmitting during the Jan. Mark Schubin is the Met's unofficial media historian. It was an experimental broadcast, a decade before the appearance of the first radio stations in the U.S. The marriage of opera and broadcasting began on Jan. And 2010 also marked the centennial of the first time an opera was broadcast from the Met's stage. 18, the broadcasts launched their 80th season, making them part of the longest-running classical-music program in the U.S.

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