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Also Known As Met, The • Metropolitan Opera Association
Date 1883 - present
Areas Of Involvement opera
Related People Grace Moore • Leontyne Price • Sir Thomas Beecham, 2nd Baronet • Lily Pons • Yannick Nézet-Séguin • Alan Gilbert • Kurt Adler • Otto Hermann Kahn • Arturo Toscanini • Sir Rudolf Bing • Dorothy Kirsten • John Erskine • Lauritz Melchior • Eleanor Belmont

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