Hulu, Netflix, and Prime Video are great streaming services for video entertainment, but they're particularly lacking when it comes to classical music performances. Marquee TV aims to fill this void with a satisfying (if thin) catalog, as well as decent video and audio quality. It one-ups medici.tv and Symphony.live by including theater performances and with more app platform support, but it's sorely lacking in the depth of its content offering. medici.tv vastly outstrips it in the number of classical music showcases and live performances, earning that service our Editors' Choice award.

How Much Does Marquee TV Cost?

You can check out Marquee TV with a 7-day free trial. After that, you’ll pay either $8.99 per month or $89.99 annually for a subscription. Medici.tv costs somewhat more, at $12.99 per month or $129 per year. Symphony.live, another classical-focused video streaming service, costs $9.99 per month. It includes content from no fewer than a dozen top-tier orchestras, with some 4K streams (something that Marquee TV and medici.tv lack).

Mainstream video streaming services cost more, with Netflix charging $15.49 per month for its Standard plan and Prime Video costing $8.99 per month. Many specialized video streaming services run approximately $7.99 per month, including Crunchyroll, though some, like Curiosity Stream, start at $4.99 per month. Of course, the dominant internet social video service, YouTube, has loads of high-quality classical music at good sound and video resolutions, too. But if you don’t want distracting ads with Google’s service, you must pay $13.99 per month for YouTube Premium.

You can also subscribe directly to streaming video content from some performing institutions, such as Met Opera On Demand ($14.99 per month). The Berlin Philharmonic lets you stream its entire current season for 169 Euros, and NYPhil+ offers a selection of concerts from New York’s top orchestra. Carnegie Hall has a service, but it has strangely limited device support, with no web viewing. Even the excellent Cleveland Orchestra has its own streaming service, Adella, which has both free and premium ($14.99 per month) content.

What Platforms Have Marquee TV Apps?

Marquee TV has apps for many popular platforms. Of course, you can watch performances on your PC’s web browser, but there are apps for Amazon Fire TV, Android TV, Apple TV, Google TV, and Roku. There are mobile apps for both mobile platforms. If you sign up on a Fire TV, your payment can be conveniently charged to your Amazon account. One slight annoyance is that you can’t simply enter a code on your phone or computer to log in on your TV or streaming device, as you can with medici.tv.

Small Library, No Live Performances

Marquee TV offers content in Theater, Opera, Ballet, Dance, Music, Documentaries, Jazz. All of these categories, save theater, are also offered by medici.tv. You view content in Marquee grouped by Our Top Picks, Most Popular, and by the performing group name. Medici.tv offers more content-finding options—by composer, performer, period, instrument—and Symphony.live has Orchestras, Composers, and Conductors pages. Marquee TV offers none of this, just orchestra, popular, top picks. You can use a search box, but it often turned up no results in my tries. The All Music expanded to only 44 videos. Medici.tv offers 1,416 concerts, many of which are vintage performances.

Searching for “Beethoven symphony” turned up just three video results on Marquee TV, while Symphony.live yielded 19 and medici.tv found 125.

Another drawback to Marquee is that you cannot see what year the performances are from the website; you have to play the video for a little to find it in the titles, if at all. You do, however, see the cast and crew.

Music performances by the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the excellent, early-music-focused Age of Enlightenment Orchestra feature heavily in Marquee, as the company has exclusive partnerships with them. (The latter’s performance of Bach's St. John Passion alone is worth the price of subscription.) As on Medici, however, you’ll also find a few performances by the generally more-highly rated London Symphony Orchestra, though there’s more on medici.tv.  

You also get Movie Music Nights with Danish National Symphony Orchestra, and documentaries. I also found the rising Canadian conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin leading the Montreal Orchestre Métropolitain in Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony (the Sixth), and a Birmingham Symphony centennial concert under Simon Rattle. However, a lot of the content isn’t particularly fresh, with most dating from the last decade.

For opera, Marquee TV offers some, well, marquee performance groups, such as La Scala, the Royal Opera House, and Opera Australia. There’s a special collection section for the Glyndebourne festival. La Scala has its own rent-to-play streaming service, so Marquee TV saves you that rental fee for the performances it includes, though again, you won’t find recent ones.

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Marquee TV shines a little brighter when it comes to theater and ballet. Particularly compelling are the Shakespeare offerings, with much content from the Royal Shakespeare Company. But you also get some Broadway classics like Death of a Salesman and The Glass Menagerie.  

Ballet offerings are strong too, with sections for Contemporary, Hip-Hop Inspired, Unique Fusions, and American Choreographers. You get performances of the English National Ballet, the New York City Ballet, the Royal Swedish Ballet, and BalletBoyz.

Some appealing classic jazz is also available on the service, including performances by Thelonious Monk, Ella Fitzgerald, and Bobby McFerrin. A few jazz festivals and documentaries also appear in the catalog.

Medici and Symphony.live also top Marquee TV in this significant aspect: They offer plenty of live performances whereas Marquee TV only has prerecorded content. Those services also keep the live performance videos available for watching later.

Marquee TV's Video Player

The standard video player lets you turn on closed captions, change the resolution (all the performances I watched topped out at 1080p), and rewind 10 seconds back. You occasionally get a letterboxed view for widescreen shows, though that’s not Marquee TV’s fault. There’s no picture-in-picture feature like medici.tv and Symphony.live have. It’s only full screen, so you can’t add to your collection or share a video while it’s playing. Marquee TV also doesn’t remember where you left off if you leave and come back, as medici.tv does.

Marquee TV Video and Sound Quality

High-resolution video fans will be disappointed by both Marquee TV and medici.tv—the top video resolution I found on both was 1080p. No 4K content. Symphony.live, on the other hand, has a limited amount of 4K content. That said, the Marquee TV video looked sharp and enjoyable on my 4K Lenovo ThinkVision P27u-20 monitor.

Using my web browser’s developer tools, the classical services all stream audio at 16-bit 44.1kHz AAC—not as high-resolution as what you find on streaming music services such Amazon Music Unlimited or Qobuz, which have 24-bit content up to 192kHhz. But the recording equipment and engineering are just as big a factor as the codecs. In limited testing, Medici’s sound quality was richer and more lifelike. I listened on a pair of Beyer Dynamics DT 990 Pro headphones connected to a Topping D10 DAC capable of up to 32bit 386kHz. Forget about 5.1 or Dolby Atmos surround sound on these services; we can only dream that one day we’ll get those.

Marquee TV on Mobile

I installed the Marquee on my Samsung S21 Ultra Android phone, a Lenovo Tab M8 4th Gen Android tablet, and an iPhone X. The app was perfectly functional, nearly identical to the website. I like that, unlike YouTube, it forces the view to landscape when you start playing a video. What’s the point of seeing a tiny image of a grand concert?

Unfortunately, the updated app no longer lets you download content to mobile devices for offline viewing (despite still saying this is a feature on the App Store description; Google Play’s makes no such claims). So you won’t be able to watch Wagner’s Ring Cycle on your flight to Bayreuth.

Is Marquee TV for You?

If you’re someone who enjoys seeing classical music's top performers as well as hearing them, Marquee TV is worth a look. Its audio and video quality are good, and it offers apps for all major platforms. Fans of dance and theater may want to give the service a whirl with its free trial. But its catalog of classical performance is extremely lacking when compared with similar services. medici.tv, our Editors' Choice winner, has a far bigger library of performances and live streams for you to watch. Marquee TV also lacks 4K content, which you’ll find at Symphony.live, which also has a bigger library.