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The Metropolitan Opera
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opera company in Manhattan, New York City
Research organization · ROR
- Type
- Company
- Founded
- 1883
- Location
- New York, United States
- Also known as
- The Met
- Status
- Active
GRID grid.429491.3 · ISNI 0000 0004 0442 6033
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- production company
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Manhattan
- Headquarters
- Metropolitan Opera House
- Location
- Lincoln Square
- Official website
- www.metopera.org
- Image
- Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center, January 30, 2025.jpg
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- topic's main category
- Category:Metropolitan Opera
- Commons category
- Metropolitan Opera
- inception
- 1880-00-00
- musical conductor
- Yannick Nézet-Séguin
- director / manager
- Rudolf Bing
- native label
- Metropolitan Opera
- social media followers
- 266325
- has works in the collection
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- street address
- 30 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, New York, 10023-6980
- phone number
- +1-212-362-6000
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
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Encyclopedic overview
Metropolitan Opera and Lincoln Center
The Metropolitan Opera is an American opera company based in New York City, currently resident at the Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center, situated on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Referred to colloquially as the Met, the company is operated by the non-profit Metropolitan Opera Association, with Peter Gelb as general manager. The company's music director has been Yannick Nézet-Séguin since 2018.
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