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Sarah's Music

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April 11, 2015

In this episode of Sarah's Music, Sarah spends a day at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York. Known as the Met, this opera house is one of the most famous and certainly the largest opera house in the world. It boasts the very best singers in the world, a wonderful acoustic and with their "Met live in HD" cinema broadcasts, they reach audiences worldwide.

Here Sarah is invited to sit in on a rehearsal of Massenet´s opera “Manon” with Diana Damrau and Vittorio Grigolo in the main roles. She meets the General Manager of the Met, Peter Gelb, talks to the horn section in the pit, explores backstage and even shows us where the very best acoustic is...