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

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Black and white portrait of Maria Callas in profile, wearing pearl earrings and her hair pulled back, looking ahead with a slight smile.
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