Corporate Partnership

Sponsorship Opportunities

• New Productions

  Each season, the Met presents between six and eight new productions—from imaginative retellings of the classics to contemporary and rarely heard masterpieces—that keep the repertory and art form exciting and fresh for both artists and audiences. Support of these productions is one of the highest-profile underwriting opportunities the Met has to offer.

• Repertory Productions

  Revival underwriting offers a sponsor the opportunity to attach its name to performances of a specific opera for an entire season. Revival underwriting is essential to keeping many of the Met's most beloved productions in the repertory. It also helps maintain the company's high standards by supporting rehearsal time and defrays the costs of refurbishment of sets and costumes.

• The Met: Live in HD

  In December 2006, the inaugural presentation of the Met's Live in HD series of movie-theater transmissions was seen on 98 screens in four countries. Today, The Met: Live in HD reaches 2,200 screens in over 73 countries on six continents. Recognized as an international phenomenon, the series has garnered a Peabody Award, two Emmys, and extraordinary international praise from audiences and critics alike. As the only performing arts institution with an ongoing global series of this scale, the Met has become the world's leading provider of alternative cinema content. Regional sponsorship opportunities for Live in HD are available.

• Great Performances at the Met

  The Met's historic partnership with PBS began in 1977 with the first Live from the Met telecast of La Bohème, starring Luciano Pavarotti and Renata Scotto. Currently presenting up to ten programs a year and receiving two million viewer impressions annually, Great Performances at the Met provides an unprecedented offering of opera programming to a national television audience. Over 19 million viewers have watched the series since inception. Individual PBS telecasts or annual PBS specials are available for sponsorship.

• Met Rush Tickets

  The popular Rush Tickets program was initiated in 2006 by the late Dr. Agnes Varis and her husband, Karl Leichtman. Each season the program offers approximately 14,000 Orchestra and Grand Tier seats at the drastically reduced price of $25 for most performances. Additionally, if tickets remain unsold on the date of the performance, the box office will be able to add them to the daily allocation.

• Open House Dress Rehearsals

  The Open House Dress Rehearsals program is one of several Met initiatives intended to make opera more accessible to all audiences. Each season, the Met opens three final dress rehearsals, with approximately 2,500 free tickets for each one distributed via an online drawing held on the company's website.

• Opening Night Live Transmission

  A tradition begun in 2006, the annual live broadcast of the Met's Opening Night Gala is a public celebration of the start of the cultural season in New York. The performance is transmitted live and in high definition via satellite to giant screens in Times Square. Seating is free and approximately 2,500 people attend.

• Summer HD Festival

  For ten successive nights—beginning in late August and concluding on Labor Day—the Summer HD Festival presents encore screenings from the popular Live in HD series on the Met facade at Lincoln Center Plaza. Approximately 40,000 attend the free screenings each season.

• Summer Recital Series

  The Summer Recital Series brings free opera to public parks in all five New York City boroughs, performed by rising Met stars and members and alumni of the company's Lindemann Young Artist Development Program. Held annually in June and July, the recitals are attended by an estimated audience of 8,000 each year.

• HD Live in Schools

  With the success of the award-winning Live in HD series of performance transmissions to movie theaters around the world, the Met recognized a unique opportunity to bring world-class opera to students with limited opportunities for cultural engagement. By providing free access to these presentations—complemented by extensive teacher training, curriculum-enriching materials, and opportunities to interact with opera's greatest stars—the Met is introducing opera to students across the country, seeking to ignite a lifelong passion for the classical arts.

• Lindemann Young Artist Development Program

  Founded by Music Director James Levine in 1980, the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program trains new generations of American and international artists to perform at the highest standards in productions at the Met and opera houses around the world. Each season approximately ten young artists participate in the program, which includes performance opportunities on the Met's stage and a partnership with The Juilliard School.