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

Kaija Saariaho’s “Innocence,” one of the most important new operas of this century, finally made it to the Metropolitan Opera on Monday in a superb performance.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

Returning to the Metropolitan Opera this month, the Italian classic uses the lilting three-beat form as a unifying element in its tragic drama of a woman’s struggle with Parisian polite society.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 14, 2026

The Metropolitan Opera, for instance, commissioned “The Voyage” in 1992 to celebrate the 500th anniversary of Columbus’ arrival in the Americas, but the epic opera is nowhere to be found in our semisesquicentennial year.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 5, 2026

Lauren Snouffer, a soprano who recently made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera, appears in the Abrahamsen.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 14, 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