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Welcome
to Operacast.com - the place to find information
about operatic broadcasts on the Internet.
We
hope your visit here will be a pleasant one and that you will enjoy this service
and find it useful. We look forward to riding the wave of streaming opera on the
internet with you in the coming years and decades, and we thank you for your support.
The
List
of Opera Stations
is a comprehensive list of all stations of which we are currently aware that
broadcast
high-quality audio on the Net and who also broadcast regularly scheduled opera
programs. This page has links to each station's home page, to all of that
broadcaster's
high-quality audio streaming links, and to any additional technical help pages
which that station may provide.
The
Opera
Table -
our generic schedule page - lists the station, program name, and times (in both
Greenwich Mean Time and Eastern Daylight Time), for each regularly scheduled high-
quality
audio operatic broadcast of which we are aware currently available on the Net.
In addition, this page has links to each station's highest quality audio stream
and to its relevant scheduling info page.
We
have redesigned our schedule pages so that they will
load in your browser more rapidly. We now feature seven pages for the Current
Week - This Saturday, This
Sunday, This Monday
,
This Tuesday, This Wednesday,
This Thursday and This Friday
- and three for Next Week - Next
Saturday, Next Sunday
and Next Week - Monday to Friday
.
All programs will still be listed with their Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) start times
and equivalent times in Eastern Standard (or Daylight) Time. So you won't have
to jump back and forth between our List of Opera
Stations
and the schedule pages, we list all audio stream links
for each station on the schedule pages.
Two
pages on this site briefly discuss some technical
aspects
of today's live audio streaming. One page is simple, straightforward, and basic,
an introduction to Internet
Radio For Simpletons.
The second is intended for the more technically inclined, Internet
Radio for Techies
.
The latter page looks at some of the more quirky and esoteric aspects of broadcast
audio streaming. It is not intended to be an exhaustive or comprehensive study
of the technology but merely a personal semi-autobiographical review of aspects
of the invention which have struck your editor as being of some interest.
To
keep you abreast of the current state of the streams we list, we have started
a blog - OperaBlog - where we can
let you know when one of the streams is down or experiencing difficulties and
when it is working properly again. We also use OperaBlog
for the occasional tribute when an important singer has a milestone birthday or
passes away and for other commentary about the opera world.
If
you know of a regularly scheduled operatic broadcast which you do not see listed
here and which broadcasts in quality audio on the Net, or of some special upcoming
high-quality operatic webcast, please let
us know about it and we will add it to our posted information.