Metropolitan Opera

About Metropolitan Opera

The Metropolitan Opera Association of New York City, founded in April 1880, is a major presenter of all types of opera including Grand Opera. Peter Gelb is the company's general manager and James Levine is music director.

The Metropolitan Opera is America's largest classical music organization, and annually presents some 240 opera performances, either as new productions (sometimes productions borrowed from or shared with) other major opera houses in America and abroad. The home of the company, the Metropolitan Opera House is one of the premier opera stages in the world, considered by some as one of the best and is among the biggest in the world. The Met, as it is commonly called, is one of the twelve resident organizations at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.

The Met presents a wide array of about thirty operas each year in a season which lasts from mid-September through May. Performances are presented in a rotating repertory schedule with seven performances of four works presented each week. Performances are given in the evening Monday through Saturday with a matinée on Saturday.