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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Eric Owens and Angel Blue star as Porgy and Bess, April 23 @ 1pm (Nov 2021)
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The Metropolitan Opera will present "A Concert for Ukraine" on Monday, March 14, at 6:00pm ET, with Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin leading the Met Orchestra and Chorus, featuring a roster of star soloists.
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Soprano Joan Sutherland and tenor Luciano Pavaroti had a unique lifelong relationship that was seldom anything less than an experience of a lifetime. They not only had phenomenal voices, but they used them to touch people's hearts in their own unique way.
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The Met looks back at its first decade on air (2/5) and celebrates Black History Month (2/26)
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In honor of the 90th anniversary of The Met and the 150th anniversary of Aida, we hear a special celebration of great Aida performances through the years. Christmas day at 1pm.
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The Metropolitan Opera recently announced that it has appointed Debra Lew Harder as the new host of its radio broadcasts, the longest-running "classical music" program in American radio history, which began 90 years ago in 1931.
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Known since its founding in 1954 as the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, the competition name has been changed in recognition of a generous…
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6/5 Britten’s Billy Budd (Performance from March 8, 1997)Steuart Bedford; Philip Langridge (Captain Vere), Dwayne Croft (Billy Budd), James Morris…
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On Saturday, May 8, 2021, Mary Jo Heath informed listeners that she has decided to retire as the Met’s radio host at the end of this season. Mary Jo began…