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.
Unfortunately the movie The Opera House is not yet available on HBO Max.
Sound | Engelbert Humperdinck | Music |
Directing | Susan Froemke | Director |
Directing | Peter R. Livingston Jr. | Co-Director |
Editing | Peter R. Livingston Jr. | Editor |
Production | Susan Froemke | Producer |
Production | Peter Gelb | Producer |
Production | Muffie Meyer | Consulting Producer |
Editing | Prudence Arndt | Archival Footage Coordinator |
Production | Mia Bongiovanni | Executive Producer |
Production | Alexandra Eastman | Executive Producer |
Production | Jaclyn Lee | Associate Producer |
Editing | Justine Pierce | Archival Footage Research |
Editing | Lindsey Schneider | Archival Footage Research |
Sound | Roger Phenix | Sound |
Visual Effects | Molly Schwartz | Animation |
Visual Effects | Dana Schechter | Animation |
Visual Effects | Jason Conradt | Animation |
Editing | Jaclyn Lee | First Assistant Editor |
Editing | Victor Ilyukhin | Assistant Editor |
Sound | Giuseppe Verdi | Music |
Sound | Richard Wagner | Music |
Sound | Giacomo Puccini | Music |
Sound | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Music |
Sound | Vincenzo Bellini | Music |
Sound | Georges Bizet | Music |
Sound | Gaetano Donizetti | Music |
Sound | Richard Strauss | Music |
Sound | Samuel Barber | Music |
Sound | Charles Gounod | Music |
Sound | Modeste Moussorgsky | Music |
Sound | Aaron Copland | Music |