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

Given its well-documented financial woes, the Metropolitan Opera might not seem a likely place to find multiple bold and costly new creative projects.

From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2026

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

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

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

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