DO YOU KNOW THESE GREAT METROPOLITAN OPERA RESOURCES?
Sure, you know the great Metropolitan Opera Website.
It gives you all information about current and upcoming performances,
provides ticketing and subscriptions, has a gift shop and
best of all with Met on Demand you can get access to 900 full-length Met performances with the online streaming service.
But the website has also a number of resources which you may not be familiar with:
Illustrated Synopses
Illustrated Synopses gives you an illustrated abstract for 36 operas
There are all the famous operas such as Carmen, The Magic Flute, Nozze di Figaro.
But also modern works like Akhnaten and Marnie.
Check it out!
THE METOPERA DATABASE
The Metropolitan Opera Archives contain a vast collection of documents, photographs, artwork, costumes, and memorabilia reaching back to the company’s opening season in 1883.
Much of the factual information is easily accessed in the MetOpera Database.
The database has a great facility for searching for singers, conductors, directors, perfomances, dates and much more.
Actually, many opera companies have similar performance databases such as
MET Educator Guides
Met Opera Education produces a suite of interdisciplinary, classroom-ready curricular materials designed for students across grade levels. Our signature Educator Guides offer an interdisciplinary introduction to opera, empowering students to deepen their engagement with the art form while meeting state and national academic standards. Each guide includes historical background on the opera and its source, a timeline of the composer’s life, synopses for young readers, contextual essays, fun facts, and plug-and-play classroom activities.
Met Opera Education is strongly dedicated to bilingual and Spanish-language instruction. Many of our Educator Guides are also available in Spanish translation. All guides listed below are available as PDFs; all guides created since 2019 are also viewable in an online format optimized for screen-readers.
MET Opera Arrangements
Here you find various vocal and instrumental arrangements of opera excerpts.
Met Opera on Demand: Insights
Designed specifically for university students and instructors, this new initiative provides exclusive access to conversations with Met composers, multimedia curricular resources, and rare archival materials through institutional subscriptions to Met Opera on Demand.
Each semester will feature core content highlighting thematic connections between one contemporary Met premiere and one title available on Met Opera on Demand.
Insights is available exclusively to colleges, universities, and conservatories with institutional subscriptions to Met Opera on Demand: Student Access through their libraries.