The New York Metropolitan Opera Company will be here in May, and the board will sponsor the Saturday night, May 13, performance of `` Turandot '' as a benefit.

Even Joan Sutherland may not have anticipated the tremendous reception she received from the Metropolitan Opera audience attending her debut as Lucia in Donizetti's `` Lucia Di Lammermoor '' Sunday night.

( The first Metropolitan Opera broadcast on Dec. 9 will introduce her as Lucia.

Snow or no, the fans were present in force at the Metropolitan Opera last night for a performance of the Ponchielli work.

Three of his bronzes grace the grand staircase of the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City: Summer ( 1910 – 11 ), Venus Without Arms ( 1920 ), and Kneeling Woman: Monument to Debussy ( 1950 – 55 ).

In November 1979 it debuted at the Metropolitan Opera in a John Dexter production conducted by James Levine.

The building was designed by the famed architect Wallace Harrison, who would later design the similar-looking façade of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center.

This was commissioned by, and first performed at, the Metropolitan Opera in New York on 10 December 1910 with Met stars Enrico Caruso and Emmy Destinn for whom Puccini created the leading roles of Dick Johnson and Minnie.

* La fanciulla del West, libretto by Guelfo Civinini and Carlo Zangarini ( premiered at the Metropolitan Opera, 10 December 1910 )

* Il trittico ( premiered at the Metropolitan Opera, 14 December 1918 )

During his senior year, he worked as a supernumerary with the Metropolitan Opera, earning 50 ¢ per appearance, and $ 1 if he was required to perform in blackface.

* 1910 – The first public radio broadcast takes place ; a live performance of the opera Cavalleria rusticana is sent out over the airwaves from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, New York.

* 1944 – The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City hosts a jazz concert for the first time.

The Metropolitan Opera in the US reports that the average age of its audience is now 60.

In an effort to attract younger audiences, the Metropolitan Opera offers a student discount on ticket purchases.

The Metropolitan Opera began a series of live high-definition video transmissions to cinemas around the world in 2006.

* 1883 – The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City opens with a performance of Gounod's Faust.

* 1966 – The Metropolitan Opera House opens at Lincoln Center in New York City with the world premiere of Samuel Barber's opera, Antony and Cleopatra.

A similar concept is used by the Metropolitan Opera in New York.

* Sarah Billinghurst, ( BA ) artistic director Metropolitan Opera

* August 17 – Margaret Harshaw, Metropolitan Opera soprano, sings the role of Turandot in Puccini's opera Turandot at the New York World's Fair.

** The Metropolitan Opera House opens at Lincoln Center in New York City to the world premiere of Samuel Barber's opera, Antony and Cleopatra.

* June 7 – The Who become the first act to perform rock music ( their rock opera, Tommy ) at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York.

January 7: Marian Anderson at the Metropolitan Opera | Met

* January 7 – Marian Anderson is the first African American singer to perform at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City.

In recent years, the agency began undertaking a large-scale effort to consolidate its operations in the Washington Metropolitan Area from its main headquarters in Rockville and several fragmented office buildings in the vicinity to the former site of the Naval Ordnance Laboratory in the White Oak area of Silver Spring, Maryland.

While seeking a new stadium to replace the crumbling Polo Grounds, the Giants began to contemplate a move from New York, initially considering Metropolitan Stadium in Bloomington, MN, which was home to their top farm team, the Minneapolis Millers.

The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority ( MWAA ) began a renovation program for the airport including a new security mezzanine with more room for lines.

After 1955, Rockville would not see a concerted effort to develop a public transportation infrastructure until the 1970s, when the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority ( WMATA ) began work to extend the Washington Metro into Rockville and extended Metrobus service into Montgomery County.

Its construction began in 1860 with the Metropolitan Railway from Farringdon to Paddington.

Twenty-eight hours after the accident began, William Scranton III, the lieutenant governor, appeared at a news briefing to say that Metropolitan Edison, the plant's owner, had assured the state that " everything is under control ".

Construction began on the 80, 000-seat stadium in 1972 and it opened in 1975 as the Pontiac Metropolitan Stadium.

In 1961, after the completion of Metropolitan Stadium in 1956, both the Minnesota Twins and Minnesota Vikings began regular-season play.

In 1967, with the expansion of the National Hockey League, the Metropolitan Sports Center was built near the site of the Metropolitan Stadium and the Minnesota North Stars began play later that year.

Following World War II, the area began to develop as part of Metropolitan Washington, D. C.

In 1972 the Zoo joined the Metropolitan Zoological Park and Museum District and began to receive revenue from a public sales tax of 8 cents for every $ 100 assessed.

After failing to organize a tour, the company began performing as the house company for the Metropolitan Opera.

The Metropolitan Opera began a long history with the city of Philadelphia during its first season, presenting its entire repertoire in the city during January and August, 1884.

Linac-based radiation therapy for cancer therapy began with treatment of the first patient in 1953 in London at Hammersmith Hospital, with an 8 megavolt machine built by Metropolitan Vickers, as the first dedicated medical linac.

Jackson was mayor when the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority ( MARTA ) obtained a large amount of Federal funding for a rapid-transit rail-line system, when its construction began, and when MARTA began its first rail transit service in Atlanta and in DeKalb County in 1979, and during its continual expansion thereafter.

Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport ( DTW ) Wayne County authorities began planning for a new airport in the western portions of the county as early as 1927.

The Santiago Metropolitan Region began to operate in April 1980.

The Metropolitan Toronto ( Metro ) planning department began studying a proposal to build a bridge, although full automobile access was opposed by the Commissioner of Parks, Tommy Thompson, whose department was clearing the islands of residents to create recreational land.

In late 2004, after negotiations with the County, Northwest Airlines agreed to add Northwest Airlink service to Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport, which began on May 2, 2005.

Neuberger also began donating works to institutions, among them the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum, as well as many college and university museums.

He began his new job by assembling all 4, 000 of the city police into the Metropolitan Opera House in shifts to introduce himself and inform them that things would change while he was in charge.