Metropolitan Opera House

Since its inception in 1883, the Metropolitan Opera has been one of the world’s leading opera companies. Originally housed on Broadway at 39th Street, the Met moved to its current home at Lincoln Center in 1966. The Met has given the American premieres of some of the most important works in the repertory, including Wagner’s Ring cycle and Puccini’s Turandot; its thirty world premieres include Puccini’s La Fanciulla del West and more recently, Corigliano’s The Ghosts of Versailles, Harbison’s The Great Gatsby, and Picker’s An American Tragedy. Each season the Met stages more than two hundred performances of opera in New York.

More than 800,000 people attend performances in the opera house during the season, and millions more throughout the world experience the Metropolitan Opera on TV and radio and through tours and recordings.