Happy Birthday to German composer Christoph Willibald Gluck, born #OTD day in 1714! Considered one of the original reformers in the genre, his best-known operas include Orfeo ed Euridice, Alceste, and Iphigénie en Tauride. Catch the former at the Met next season! #TodayInOpera

On today's episode of The Metropolitan Opera Guild Podcast, lecturer Matthew Timmermans will dive into how the Met’s production of foreign works has expanded the boundaries of the canon. Listen here: on.soundcloud.com/ab6XL

This week, Met Opera Guild Teaching Artist Shawn Farrar shows us how we can construct and read rhythms using things we can find in our homes. metguildeducation.org/oblathome/Rhyt…

Planning to watch Lohengrin on #GreatPerformancesPBS? Before your watch, check out these episodes of The Metropolitan Opera Guild Podcast to make sure you get the most out of your viewing experience. Then sit back, relax, and enjoy the opera! Listen here: on.soundcloud.com/58T4C

Expand your knowledge of opera with our virtual courses! Offered through Thinkific, an online learning platform, you can take classes from the Metropolitan Opera Guild from anywhere. To learn more and register for a course, visit metguild.thinkific.com #OperaBasedLearning

Join Guild Teaching Artist Shawn Farrar again this week as she takes us through a fun, short lesson designed to help young learners discover how we can use our faces to express different emotions. metguildeducation.org/oblathome/Emot…

Our new virtual course, Wagner's Music Dramas: Evolution or Revolution?, is now available on Thinkific! Join Guild lecturer, composer, and conductor Victoria Bond as she uncovers Wagner's musical roots. To sign up for this course, visit metguild.thinkific.com

Missing the Met Opera over the summer break? Relive the magic of some past performances with Live in HD encore showings! For more info and participating movie theaters, visit buff.ly/3K4HQde

Follow along for our #SummerReading series, as we suggest books to help prepare you for the 2023-24 Met Opera season. First is Dead Man Walking by Sister Helen Prejean. Inspired by her work with inmates on death row, it's the source material for the opening opera of the season.

This week, join Met Opera Guild Teaching Artist, Hannah Goodman, as she rolls the dice and teaches us how to write our own music by leaving things up to chance! metguildeducation.org/oblathome/Alea…

We are TWO WEEKS AWAY from our summer professional development intensive, but there's still time to sign up! Register today: metropolitanoperaguild.wufoo.com/forms/x1qm4bvz… For more information email [email protected]

Hallelujah Junction: Composing an American Life by John Adams Be sure to pick up a copy of Adams' "part memoir, part description and explication of the creative process" before attending a performance of Adams' opera-oratorio El Niño. #SummerReading

Happy #InternationalFriendshipDay! We are celebrating by taking a look at a handful of our favorite friendships displayed in next season's operas. Who are some of your most beloved opera friends?

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare Pull out your high school copy of perhaps the most famous play ever written and get back to the source material before witnessing a performance of Gounod's Roméo et Juliette. #SummerReading

Orpheus: The Song of Life by Ann Wroe In this extraordinary work, Wroe examines Orpheus and the power he represents through the myriad versions of his fantastical life. Delve into this analysis of the myth in advance of attending Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice. #SummerReading

Did you know that the Met Opera Guild has been bringing students to the opera house for over 85 years? Follow along this month as we share a weekly #TBT and who knows, you might even recognize some of our students from past and present years!

Planning to watch Falstaff on #GreatPerformancesPBS? Before your watch, check out these episodes of The Metropolitan Opera Guild Podcast to make sure you get the most out of your viewing experience. Then sit back, relax, and enjoy the opera! Listen here: on.soundcloud.com/58T4C

Carmen by Prosper Mérimée Boasting some of opera's most familiar tunes, Bizet's iconic Carmen is based on Prosper Mérimée's novella of the same title. Read the source material before attending the new Cracknell production of Carmen next season. #SummerReading

Seeing students experience the beauty of the opera house certainly never gets old! In 1937, the Guild presented its first student matinee at the Met: Verdi's Aida. Since, the Guild has brought hundreds of thousands of students to experience live opera at the Met. #TBT

Giacomo Puccini and His World edited by Arman Schwartz and Emanuele Senici In this work, an international roster of music specialists offers critical perspectives on the composer. Pick up a copy before attending La Bohème, Madama Butterfly, Turandot or La Rondine. #SummerReading