“It could certainly happen for the ’19-20 season.” “Everyone is aware that Sundays are an important part of the Met’s future,” he said. Next season is the last for many of the Met’s union contracts, and Gelb hopes new deals allow the company to present regular staged Sunday performances for the first time.

Attendance slumped over the past decade and box office realized hit a record-low of 66 percent in 2015-16, when attendance was 72 percent.Īfter deficits of $2.8 million in 2012-13 and $21.9 million in 2013-14, the Met achieved cost savings in difficult labor negotiations that nearly interrupted rehearsals and had a $1.1 million surplus in 2014-15 and a $177,000 deficit in 2015-16. The Met moved to Lincoln Center in 1966 and operates in a 4,000-capacity house that averaged 90 percent attendance for much of the company’s first three decades there. The difficult news is that the subscription base continues to erode mostly due to age - the aging out of our audience,” Gelb said. “The good news is that we have more new ticket buyers.

The met opera schedule 2015