Education Videos

Soprano Golda Schultz leads a master class with students at Celia Cruz Bronx High School of Music.

After attending the Met’s annual National Educator Conference in October, Beth Poquette Drews, of Dallas’s L.V. Stockard Middle School, was inspired to craft a middle-school La Traviata with her student mariachi ensemble.

A look at HD Live in Schools and other education initiatives.

Soprano Pretty Yende coaches music students at New York’s Long Island City High School in Queens and discusses her life in opera.

Soprano Patricia Racette meets with students at New York’s Long Island City High School in Queens to discuss her role as Nedda in Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci.

Martha Stewart takes a backstage tour of the opera house with the Met’s General Manager Peter Gelb.

A short feature from NY1 on common misconceptions about opera

Soprano Deborah Voigt introduces opera and the Met to student audiences.

Soprano Deborah Voigt takes a look behind the scenes of the Met and explains what goes into singing opera.

A behind-the-scenes video from Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, starring Natalie Dessay. Conducted by Patrick Summers. Production by Mary Zimmerman. Excerpted from the 2011 Live in HD transmission.

Members of the Met Orchestra play and discuss some of the musical themes and motifs from Wagner’s Ring cycle.

Students from Brooklyn’s Public School 58 learn about Verdi’s Il Trovatore.

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Soprano Gabriella Reyes visited the Casita Maria center for Arts & Education in the Bronx to perform excerpts from Daniel Catán’s Florencia en el Amazonas before students and their families attended a performance of the opera.

Local students from the Harlem School of the Arts and the Brotherhood Sister Sol participated in a master class, boxing demonstration, and dance workshop with Met artists and creatives behind Terence Blanchard’s Champion, in addition to attending the final dress rehearsal of the opera.

The Met partnered with Housing Works Inc. and the Brooklyn Public Library to host a design contest inspired by Philip Glass’s Akhnaten, giving six student teams the opportunity to work with mentors from the Met’s costume shop and create new looks showcased at the People’s Ball.

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