Metropolitan Opera

One of the world's great opera houses, New York's Metropolitan Opera carries with it a set of traditions as well established as those of the famed European houses, nurtured by a strong training apparatus. Even with that sense of tradition, the Met has been in the forefront of bringing opera out of the opera house and onto the radio, into movie theaters, and onto Internet screens, in an ongoing effort to cultivate new audiences. New York's wealthiest families, the Morgans, Roosevelts, and Vanderbilts, spearheaded a plan to create a world-class New York opera company in the ear...