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Opera on the Air: The Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcasts Turn 75

From December 10, 2005 through May 6, 2006
Music Division Reading Room
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, 40 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023-7498 (directions)

Performing Arts Library

This multi-media exhibit documents the 75 years of live radio broadcasts of the Metropolitan Opera. It includes scores, correspondence, photographs and artifacts from the Music Division and Rodgers & Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound, as well as costume pieces on loan from Metropolitan Opera's Archives. Available with the exhibit is an audio station featuring selections from the broadcasts' performances and intermission features.