In this documentary, award-winning filmmaker Susan Froemke explores the creation of the Metropolitan Opera’s storied home of the last five decades. Drawing on rarely seen archival footage, stills, and recent interviews, The Opera House looks at an important period of the Met’s history and delves into some of the untold stories of the artists, architects, and politicians who shaped the cultural life of New York City in the ’50s and ’60s. Among the notable figures in the film are famed soprano Leontyne Price, who opened the new Met in 1966 in Samuel Barber’s Antony and Cleopatra; Rudolf Bing, the Met’s imperious General Manager who engineered the move from the old house to the new one; Robert Moses, the unstoppable city planner who bulldozed an entire neighborhood to make room for Lincoln Center; and Wallace Harrison, whose quest for architectural glory was never fully realized.
Directing | Susan Froemke | Director |
Visual Effects | Jason Conradt | Animation |
Editing | Jaclyn Lee | First Assistant Editor |
Directing | Peter R. Livingston Jr. | Co-Director |
Editing | Prudence Arndt | Archival Footage Coordinator |
Production | Mia Bongiovanni | Executive Producer |
Visual Effects | Molly Schwartz | Animation |
Visual Effects | Dana Schechter | Animation |
Editing | Victor Ilyukhin | Assistant Editor |
Production | Muffie Meyer | Consulting Producer |
Editing | Peter R. Livingston Jr. | Editor |
Production | Jaclyn Lee | Associate Producer |
Editing | Lindsey Schneider | Archival Footage Research |
Production | Peter Gelb | Producer |
Sound | Roger Phenix | Sound |
Editing | Justine Pierce | Archival Footage Research |
Production | Susan Froemke | Producer |
Production | Alexandra Eastman | Executive Producer |
Sound | Georges Bizet | Music |
Sound | Charles Gounod | Music |
Sound | Richard Wagner | Music |
Sound | Giuseppe Verdi | Music |
Sound | Vincenzo Bellini | Music |
Sound | Aaron Copland | Music |
Sound | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Music |
Sound | Richard Strauss | Music |
Sound | Gaetano Donizetti | Music |
Sound | Samuel Barber | Music |
Sound | Giacomo Puccini | Music |
Sound | Modeste Moussorgsky | Music |
Sound | Engelbert Humperdinck | Music |