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 1967, the Metropolitan Opera gave the world premiere of an operatic version, composed by Marvin David Levy to the libretto of William Henry Butler.

This series remained on the air until the early 2000s, although the live broadcasts gave way to taped performances and in 1988 the title was changed to The Metropolitan Opera Presents.

After Rockefeller purchased Barnard's entire collection, he gave the collection to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

In 1993 – 1994, Ludwig gave a series of farewell recitals in many cities and made her farewell appearance at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, as Fricka in Die Walküre.

The passing of the City of London Police Act 1839 gave statutory approval to the force as an independent police body, heading off attempts made to merge it with the Metropolitan Police.

In February, 2008, the new GOP-led council gave the authority over the county-wide Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department to the Mayor, leaving Sheriff Frank J. Anderson with authority over the county jail, protection of City-County buildings and the traditional roles of tax collection and paper serving, but left him as the only Sheriff in Indiana without territory to protect.

The Woman's Christian Temperance Union caused such a public outcry citing its " drunken indecency " that the library had to refuse the gift, and McKim gave the statue to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

She also sang Violetta again in the Metropolitan Opera's touring production to Japan and gave several recitals and concerts throughout the United States, Italy, Russia, and Sweden.

On June 3 he gave 26 pounds to the runner-up Okapi in again winning the Metropolitan, living up to his reputation as the " king of the handicap horses ".

In 1996 Norman gave a highly lauded performance as the title character in the Metropolitan Opera's premier production of Janáček's The Makropulos Case.

The Metropolitan Interments Act 1850 gave the government powers to purchase commercial cemeteries.

The Metropolitan Council gave final approval to this decision on June 28, 2006, and is currently working on advance utility relocation while waiting for the final federal approval to enter final design and major construction.

Again, the security was the primary responsibility of the Metropolitan Police ; although the Queen was not present at the time, it raised fears of the possibility of a terrorist attack on the palace, and gave rise to calls for the British Army to be given a greater hand in the overall security of the Royal Family.

She gave her final performance in 1966 at the closing night of the old Metropolitan Opera House.

Whiston gave its name to and formerly administered the Whiston Rural District which operated under the county of Lancashire from 1895 until 1974 when it ceased to exist upon local government boundary changes and the formation of the Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley, Merseyside.

At the end of the summer of 1892, Burleigh gave a performance in the Adirondacks, at North Hudson, New York, as the featured soloist in “ the summer school for Christian workers .” Nine months after arriving in New York City, Burleigh appeared in two Grand Encampment Concerts at the Metropolitan Church in Washington, D. C. as “ the celebrated Western baritone .”

In addition to her gifts to the MoMA, Mrs Rockefeller gave substantially to other museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Cloisters, which received much of her collection of sculpture and decorative arts, as well as to the Rhode Island School of Design, which received her collection of Japanese prints.

He also gave to many secular American causes such as the Boy Scouts of America, the Harvard Semitic Museum, the American Museum of Natural History, Metropolitan Museum of Art, American Fine Arts Society, American Geographical Society, and Barnard College ; and a number of other organizations for civil rights and the disadvantaged, such as the American Red Cross, the Nurses ' Settlement ( New York ) and Tuskegee Institute.

Moscoe's election to the North York Board of Control in 1985 gave him an automatic seat on the Metropolitan Toronto council, which was then a part-time body made up of representatives from six municipal councils.

However, following formal enforcement action by the Advertising Standards Authority, the Metropolitan Police gave a written undertaking never to repeat this claim again.

In 1880 the LNWR opened a line from Aston to on the Birmingham to line which also gave access to the Metropolitan Carriage and Wagon Company's works ( later Metro-Cammell ) at Saltley, reached by a short branch from what the LNWR termed Washwood Heath Junction at the point where the Aston-Stechford line passed over the Midland Railway from Birmingham to Derby.

The Metropolitan Borough of Hampstead had initially objected to the line but gave consent on the condition that a station be constructed between Hampstead and Golders Green to provide access for visitors to the Heath.

During his tenure as a Law Lord he gave long majority judgments in cases including Metropolitan Water Board v Dick Kerr & Co Ltd concerning frustration and Tredegar v. Harwood concerning a landlord's liability to insure premises, Ellerman Lines Ltd v Murray on employment law and excessive reliance on a preamble or draft international instrument, Sorrel v Smith concerning the tort of conspiracy to interfere with a trade or calling, Leyland Shipping Co Ltd v Norwich Union Fire Insurance Society Ltd on causation in tort, Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Co Ltd v New Garage & Motor Co Ltd on penalty clauses and Plumb v Cobden Flour Mills Co Ltd on employer's liability.

In 1926 he was tonsured a monk and ordained a hierodeacon by Metropolitan Anthony ( Khrapovitsky ), who gave him the name of John after his saintly relative.