The Met mines the archive for intermission features during the broadcasts.
A taped intermission feature offers rehearsal scenes and explorations of what is so distinctive and special about chamber music, both for musicians and audience.
Audience surveys as well as mail suggest that listeners love the intermission features.
And we get our most favorable feedback from listeners about the intermission features, like the Texaco Opera quiz.
Spanish commentary and intermission features are inserted for Spanish-speaking countries.
Because live opera includes lengthy intermissions between multiple acts, the Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts offer informative and entertaining opera-related intermission features.
The Peabody announcement noted Goldovsky's contagious enthusiasm for opera, evident in his decade of hosting intermission features and interviews on the Met broadcast series.
He also produced slide shows and publications for a variety of guild functions, and intermission features for the "Live From the Met" telecasts starting in 1977.
And the hoary old intermission features and the genteel atmosphere of the broadcasts only perpetuate this museum atmosphere.
He has also been a real estate developer in addition to doing three intermission features on the Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts.