Metropolitan Opera facts for kids

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The Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, seen from Lincoln Center Plaza

The Metropolitan Opera Association is a big organization in New York City which puts on performances of opera. The Metropolitan Opera House (often simply called: The Met) is one of the most famous opera houses in the world. It was started in 1880. Today the music director is James Levine.

Images for kids

  • Gatti Casazza

    Giulio Gatti-Casazza

  • Artur Bodanzky at the Metropolitan Opera in 1915

    Artur Bodanzky at the Metropolitan Opera in 1915

  • Bundesarchiv Bild 102-07682, Otto H. Kahn

    Otto Hermann Kahn in Berlin, 1931

  • Metropolitan opera 1905 crop

    Metropolitan Opera House in 1905

  • Metropolitan Opera staircase from above

    The new Met Opera House


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