The Metropolitan Opera in New York, meanwhile, has been broadcasting live performances in cinemas for some years.
In 1954, Marian Anderson became the first black singer hired by the Metropolitan Opera Company in New York.
In 1918, "Gianni Schicchi, " a one-act opera by Giacomo Puccini, was first performed at New York's Metropolitan opera.
The Metropolitan Opera on Thursday announced the program for music director James Levine's first appearance in two years.
When an audience at the Metropolitan Opera House wants to make its approval known, its roar is unmatchable.
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She and Morris met in 1932, in a box at the Metropolitan Opera.
Thousands of Baron Capital investors crowded into the Metropolitan Opera House this afternoon.
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After agreeing to write the libretto, Mr. Shanley went to see "The Marriage of Figaro" at the Metropolitan Opera.
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On May 17th, a black-tie audience at the Metropolitan Opera House applauded as a tall, jovial-looking billionaire took the stage.
In the spring, when its celebrated opera company is on hiatus, the Metropolitan Opera House is home to the American Ballet Theatre.
Other conductors were also the heads of Julliard and the Metropolitan Opera.
Yet to hear people talk about the shows, you'd think Maria Callas had risen from the dead to tour with the Metropolitan Opera.
Meanwhile, in the Metropolitan Opera's new production of "Rigoletto, " running through May 1, the second act takes place in and around a strip club.
The Metropolitan Opera's foray into dynamic ticket pricing this season had an unintended consequence: After the company hiked prices for many seats, attendance dipped.
The technology is thoroughly tested, and has been proved successful by the Metropolitan Opera in New York, and by Covent Garden and Glyndebourne in England.
In the U.S., the first complete, four-opera cycle will begin on April 6 at the Metropolitan Opera with a reprise of the Robert Lepage production.
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Jonas Kaufmann starred in the Metropolitan Opera's new "Parsifal" in February.
Upcoming films include a documentary about the Metropolitan Opera in New York and a live viewing via satellite of the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow.
Klaus Florian Vogt, who replaced Marco Jentzsch as Lohengrin at the last minute, has sung the role everywhere from New York's Metropolitan Opera to Bayreuth's Festspielhaus.
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She was so upset when Penn Station was torn down, the Metropolitan Opera house, and when it came to Grand Central it was just too much.
So emotionally drained was the audience at Saturday afternoon's performance at the Metropolitan Opera that silence lingered in the house for several moments after the curtain fell.
"We needed something to feed us peace, " said Ms. Racette, 47, who will be performing "Il Trovatore" and "Dialogues des Carmelites" at New York's Metropolitan Opera this season.
Imagine how much the Metropolitan Opera could have saved on its gigantic Ring Cycle if it had forgone the Robert Lepage "machine" and done it all with video.
The English conductor Harry Bicket is well known for his skill at making modern-instrument orchestras like the Metropolitan Opera and Lyric Opera of Chicago sound like period-instrument ensembles.
The setting was perfect for a performer who is accustomed to the stage at the Metropolitan Opera and whose opera-loving fans (an animated bunch) are used to seeing her there.
The first time Peter Gelb went to the Metropolitan Opera was in 1967, a year after the company had moved from its old theatre, on Thirty-ninth Street, to Lincoln Center.
Mr. Ives saw Mr. Glass's abstract opera "Einstein on the Beach" when it first came to the Metropolitan Opera House, and he's a long time fan of the composer's music.
He appears regularly at the Salzburg and Bayreuth festivals and is in constant demand by the world's leading opera houses, including the Metropolitan Opera in New York and the Vienna State Opera.
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Three years ago, the Russian bank decided to fund a program for young opera artists similar to what the Metropolitan Opera in New York does with the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program.
She became a member of the Metropolitan Opera Young Artists Development Program, working her way up from singing small roles to being offered leading roles with the MET and many of the world's great opera houses.
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