Metropolitan Opera

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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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Metropolitan Opera

The work, with music by Missy Mazzoli, will premiere in October at the Metropolitan Opera.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

James Levine had become an operatic legend as music director of the Metropolitan Opera for nearly three decades and had been a mentor to and champion of Conlon.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026

He is the principal conductor and music director of the Metropolitan Opera, which earlier this month finished a season so depressing that even long-in-the-tooth opera-goers can’t remember its like.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026

Of late, ABT had given two local runs—a fall one at the Koch and an early-summer stint at the Metropolitan Opera House.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 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