** Giuseppe Verdi's opera Otello makes its first appearance on Live from the Met, in a complete production of the opera starring Jon Vickers.

" He repeated this feat on April 21, 2008, the opening night of the 2007 London production at the Met, with Natalie Dessay as Marie.

During the 1950s, Bogarde came to prominence playing a hoodlum who shoots and kills a police constable in The Blue Lamp ( 1950 ) co-starring Jack Warner and Bernard Lee ; a handsome artist who comes to rescue of Jean Simmons during the World's Fair in Paris in So Long at the Fair, a film noir thriller ; an accidental murderer who befriends a young boy played by Jon Whiteley in Hunted ( aka The Stranger in Between ) ( 1952 ); in Appointment in London ( 1953 ) as a young Wing-Commander in Bomber Command who, against orders, opts to fly his 90th mission with his men in a major air offensive against the Germans ; an unjustly imprisoned man who regains hope in clearing his name when he learns his sweetheart, Mai Zetterling, is still alive in Desperate Moment ( 1953 ); Doctor in the House ( 1954 ), as a medical student, in a film that made Bogarde one of the most popular British stars of the 1950s, and co-starring Kenneth More, Donald Sinden and James Robertson Justice as their crabby mentor ; The Sleeping Tiger ( 1954 ), playing a neurotic criminal with co-star Alexis Smith, and Bogarde's first film for American expatriate director Joseph Losey ; Doctor at Sea ( 1955 ), co-starring Brigitte Bardot in one of her first film roles ; as a returning Colonial who fights the Mau-Mau with Virginia McKenna and Donald Sinden in Simba ( 1955 ); Cast a Dark Shadow ( 1955 ), as a man who marries women for money and then murders them ; The Spanish Gardener ( 1956 ), co-starring Michael Hordern, Jon Whiteley, and Cyril Cusack ; Doctor at Large ( 1957 ), again with Donald Sinden, another entry in the " Doctor films series ", co-starring later Bond-girl Shirley Eaton ; the Powell and Pressburger production Ill Met by Moonlight ( 1957 ) co-starring Marius Goring as the German General Kreipe, kidnapped on Crete by Patrick " Paddy " Leigh Fermor ( Bogarde ) and a fellow band of adventurers based on W. Stanley Moss ' real-life account of the WW2 caper ; A Tale of Two Cities ( 1958 ), a faithful retelling of Charles Dickens ' classic ; as a Flt.

Maria Jeritza ( and, later, Florence Easton ) triumphed in it at the Met, in an all-out spectacular production in 1926.

Robert Lepage, the Canadian director of Cirque du Soleil has been engaged by the Met to produce a new technically ground-breaking production of Wagner's four-opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen using hydraulic stage platforms and projected 3D imagery.

In 2004 he appeared in the London production of When Harry Met Sally as Harry, alongside Alyson Hannigan as Sally.

Produced by Minneapolis-based VEE Corporation, the show opened on September 17, 1980, with a production of Sesame Street Live " Missing Bird Mystery " playing at the Met Center in Bloomington, Minnesota.

When the Met toured the production in Japan in 1997, she refused to wear it on the first night to which Volpe famously declared, " The wig is going on, with you or without you " and replaced her with an understudy.

Gheorghiu also performed at the Met as Liù in Turandot in 2000 ; as Violetta in La traviata opposite Jonas Kaufmann in 2006 and 2007 ; as Amelia in Simon Boccanegra in 2007 ; as Mimì in La bohème in 2008 ; as Magda in the 2008 / 09 season in the ROH / SFO production of La rondine, the Met's first performance of the opera since 1936 ; and for the 2009 / 10 season she appeared as Violetta, replacing her previous engagement as Marie Antoinette in a rare revival of John Corigliano's The Ghosts of Versailles which was replaced due to the recession.

On December 31, 2008, Gheorghiu premiered the new production of La rondine at the Met, together with Roberto Alagna, Marius Brenciu, Lisette Oropesa and Samuel Ramey.

The Met revived it first in concert at Carnegie Hall on 10 November 1996, ( repeated on tour in Tokyo the next year ), then on the stage production on 7 November 2008, produced and directed by Robert Lepage, with innovative techniques of computer-generated stage imagery that responds to the performers ' voices.

Since 2007, the Met has performed the work in a darkly comic new production with English translation by David Pountney that was originally created for the English National Opera.

Lepage was featured in a 2012 documentary about the Met Ring production, Wagner's Dream.

She sang the title role in Carlisle Floyd's Susannah and Countess Almaviva in a landmark production of Le nozze di Figaro at the Met ; the Mozart production also starred Cecilia Bartoli, Susanne Mentzer, Dwayne Croft, Danielle de Niese, and Bryn Terfel and was broadcast on PBS ' Great Performances.

During the 2009 / 2010 Metropolitan Opera season Fleming sang the Marschallin and in Mary Zimmerman's new production, the first at the Met, of Rossini's Armida, a role and production she will return to during the Met's 2010 / 2011 Season along with the Gräfin in Richard Strauss's Capriccio.

It was revived at the Met in a new production in 1930, broadcast twice ( in 1939 and 1948 ), after 1949 it disappeared from the Met repertoire.

In 1970, Caballé made her " official " debut at La Scala in the title role of Lucrezia Borgia, sang Leonora in Philadelphia, and returned to the Met as Amelia in a critically acclaimed production of Verdi's Un ballo in maschera with Plácido Domingo as Riccardo, and Reri Grist as Oscar.

Consequently, he tried something different: he set music to Wilde's Salomé in 1905, and racketed quite some scandal with this opera, including in the New York Met, where the production had to be closed after one night.

The work has not been performed at the Met since the war, but it was staged at neighboring New York City Opera from 1967 to 1971, always in English, with Beverly Sills singing the Queen of Shemakha opposite Norman Treigle's Dodon, and Julius Rudel conducting Tito Capobianco's production.

Having already sung the Rheingold Wotan and the Siegfried Wanderer roles at the Met in New York in December ' 61 and January ' 62, he was ready to sing his first complete Ring Cycle. This was to be the now legendary new production mounted by Wieland Wagner at the Cologne Opera in West Germany in May 1962. Wieland was ready to try out new singers and production ideas in advance of his new Bayreuth Festival production which was scheduled for the summer of 1965 with London as Wotan and the Wanderer.

One of the major developments of the 1990s was the re-emergence of the romantic comedy film, encouraged by the success of When Harry Met Sally ... in 1989.

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.

This was the first world premiere of an opera at the Met.

The Met Éireann building too was built in a somewhat pyramidal shape and is recognised as one of the most significant, smaller commercial buildings, to be erected in Dublin in the 1970s.

It was also the basis for another movie version, Satan Met a Lady ( 1936 ) starring Bette Davis.

Eventually Met Stadium capacity was increased to 47, 900.

The game was played 29 years to the day after the last outdoor game at old Met Stadium.

Long time Mets ace Tom Seaver, who threw five one-hitters as a Met, eventually threw a no-hitter, but by then he was playing for the Cincinnati Reds.

The When Harry Met Sally ... soundtrack album features American singer and pianist Harry Connick, Jr .. Bobby Colomby, the drummer for Blood, Sweat & Tears, was a friend of Reiner's and recommended Harry Connick, Jr., giving the director a tape of the musician's music.

When Harry Met Sally was acknowledged as the sixth best film in the romantic comedy genre.

When Harry Met Sally ... was first released on VHS in late 1989, a few months after its theatrical release.

It was released on DVD for the first time on January 9, 2001, and included an audio commentary by Reiner, a 35-minute " Making Of " documentary featuring interviews with Reiner, Ephron, Crystal, and Ryan, seven deleted scenes, and a music video for " It Had To Be You " by Harry Connick, Jr. A Collector's Edition DVD was released on January 15, 2008, including a new audio commentary with Reiner, Ephron, and Crystal, eight deleted scenes, all new featurettes ( It All Started Like This, Stories Of Love, When Rob Met Billy, Billy On Harry, I Love New York, What Harry Meeting Sally Meant, So Can Men And Women Really Be Friends?

It regained some popularity from the early-1980s onward and was revived in a series of new productions at the San Francisco Opera ( 1982 ), Lyric Opera of Chicago ( 1984 ), at La Scala ( 1984 ) and the Met ( 1985 ), the 2008 stagings being the first since that time.

The Met revived it for six performances in February 2012, the 25 February performance of which was broadcast to theatres as part of the Met-in-HD season.

It was then at the Manhattan Opera House in 1909 with Luisa Tetrazzini, John McCormack, and Charles Gilibert, and again with Frieda Hempel and Antonio Scotti in the same roles at the Met on December 17, 1917.

The research contract was awarded to scientists at the University of Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory ( Met Lab ).

On 1 July 1997, in preparation for privatisation of the Public Transport Corporation, Melbourne's tram network was split into two businesses — Met Tram 1 ( later renamed Swanston Trams ) and Met Tram 2 ( later renamed Yarra Trams ).

Meanwhile, Fregosi failed to produce as a Met, making no significant contribution to the Mets ' 1973 pennant-winning campaign ; he was sold to the Texas Rangers mid-season.

In 1883, Giuseppe Kaschmann ( né Josip Kašman ) — a principal baritone at La Scala, Milan — was criticised for his strong vibrato when he sang at the Met, and the theatre's management did not re-engage him for the following season, even though other aspects of his singing were admired.

He was at his prime from the early 1900s to the early 1920s and enjoyed success in Italy, England and America ( in Chicago and later at the Met ).

Also to be found singing Verdi roles at the Met, Covent Garden and the Vienna Opera during the late 1930s and the 1940s was the big-voiced Hungarian baritone, Sandor ( Alexander ) Sved.

Among the late-20th-century baritones noted throughout the opera world for their Verdi performances was Vladimir Chernov, who emerged from the former USSR to sing at the Met.