Metropolitan Opera

Cultural  

1. The most prominent opera company in the United States, often called “the Met” for short. It is based in New York City.

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Example Sentences

Krause, whose website dubbed the Queen of the Night in “The Magic Flute” as her signature role, debuted in that role at the Metropolitan Opera over the holidays.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2026

London and New York saw “Traviata” the next year, and in 1883 it was featured with a more contemporary setting in the first season of the Metropolitan Opera.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

It is thus fitting that his Metropolitan Opera debut production, which opened on Monday, was Wagner’s long and unwieldy “Tristan und Isolde,” which offers plenty of space for interpretation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026

His expansive theatrical vision embraced the outstanding work of the top-flight cast headed by Michael Spyres and Lise Davidsen in the title roles and the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra under Yannick Nézet-Séguin.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026

Its theater contained more than four thousand seats, twelve hundred more than New York’s Metropolitan Opera House.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson