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

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

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

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

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