
The Metropolitan Opera is a vibrant home for the most creative and talented singers, conductors, composers, musicians, stage directors, designers, visual artists, choreographers, and dancers from around the world.
Since the summer of 2006, Peter Gelb has been the Met’s general manager—the 16th in company history. Under his leadership, the Met has elevated its theatrical standards by significantly increasing the number of new productions, staged by the most imaginative directors working in theater and opera, and has launched a series of initiatives to broaden its reach internationally. These efforts to win new audiences prominently include the successful Live in HD series of high-definition performance transmissions to movie theaters around the world. To revitalize its repertoire, the Met regularly presents modern masterpieces alongside the classics.

Starting with the 2018–19 season, Yannick Nézet-Séguin took the musical helm of the company as the Met’s Jeannette Lerman-Neubauer Music Director.
In September 2021 Debra Lew Harder became the new host of The Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts. Only the fifth person to serve in this capacity, Ms. Lew Harder follows in the footsteps of former legendary voices of the Met, Milton Cross (1931–1975), Peter Allen (1975-2004), Margaret Juntwait (2004–2015), and, most recently, Mary Jo Heath (2016–2021).
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Herman Melville’s famously sprawling, richly meditative Moby-Dick is a work about nearly everything. In translating the grandiose source material for the stage, composer Jake Heggie and librettist Gene Scheer distilled the story to its core elements, while nonetheless retaining the novel’s speculative allegory alongside its gritty realism.
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The Metropolitan Opera's Artist's Choice is a series of broadcasts that feature performances chosen by artists. The broadcasts are available on radio and other platforms.
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The wonderful Virginia Woolf triptych brings together Renée Fleming, Kelli O’Hara and Joyce DiDonato
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Performance from December 1, 1962
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Read the Synopsis of the opera