The moment I land

The Metropolitan Opera is a vibrant home for the world’s most creative and talented singers, conductors, composers, musicians, directors, designers, choreographers, and dancers. Founded in 1883, the company relocated to its current Lincoln Center home in 1966, moving into a brand-new opera house equipped with the finest technical facilities. The Met has always engaged the art form’s leading artists, and today, it continues to present the best available talent and also discovers and trains artists through its Laffont Competition and Lindemann Young Artist Development Program. Since the turn of the last century, the Met has been a pioneer in the use of new technologies—from radio to television to live high-definition cinema simulcasts—to reach an ever-expanding global audience. The company’s youngest stars can be found in the Children’s Chorus, a group of dedicated youngsters who receive advanced musical and language training and appear in numerous Met productions.

Canadian-born conductor and pianist Yannick Nézet-Séguin became the Metropolitan Opera’s Jeanette Lerman-Neubauer Music Director with the beginning of the 2018–2019 season. He made his company debut in 2009 with a new production of Carmen and has since returned every season, conducting nearly 150 performances of 17 operas, as well as numerous galas and concerts with the Met Orchestra. He has been music director of the Philadelphia Orchestra since 2012 and held the same position with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra—where he now serves as honorary conductor—between 2008 and 2018. Since 2000, he has served as artistic director and principal conductor of Montreal’s Orchestre Métropolitain, and from 2008 to 2014, he was principal guest conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra. He also enjoys close collaborations with the Berliner Philharmoniker, Vienna Philharmonic, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, and Chamber Orchestra of Europe, among others.

Director Bartlett Sher has created eight productions for the Met, including the recent hit staging of Verdi’s Rigoletto, which premiered during the company’s 2021–22 season. He won a 2008 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical for South Pacific and also received Tony nominations for his work on To Kill a Mockingbird, My Fair Lady, Oslo, The King and I, Golden Boy, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Awake and Sing!, and The Light in the Piazza. He is resident director of Lincoln Center Theater, and from 2000 to 2009, he was artistic director of Seattle’s Intiman Theatre. He has also served as company director for the Guthrie Theater and associate artistic director at Hartford Stage and has created productions at Staatsoper Berlin, La Scala, the Salzburg Festival, English National Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Seattle Opera, and New York City Opera.

Nico Muhly is an American composer who writes orchestral music, works for the stage, chamber music and sacred music. He’s received commissions from the Met, Carnegie Hall, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Australian Chamber Orchestra, the Tallis Scholars, and King’s College, Cambridge, among others. He is a collaborative partner at the San Francisco Symphony and has been featured at the Barbican and the Philharmonie de Paris as composer, performer, and curator. An avid collaborator, he has worked with choreographers Benjamin Millepied at the Paris Opera Ballet, Bobbi Jene Smith at the Juilliard School, and Justin Peck and Kyle Abraham at New York City Ballet and artists Sufjan Stevens, the National, Teitur, Anohni, James Blake, and Paul Simon. His work for film includes scores for The Reader (2008) and Kill Your Darlings (2013), as well as the BBC adaptation of Howards End (2017).

Materials for the Arts is New York City’s largest creative reuse center dedicated to supporting arts and cultural organizations. A program of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs with support from the Department of Education and Friends of Materials for the Arts, in 2018, MFTA collected 1.7 million pounds of reusable materials from businesses and individuals across the five boroughs. These items were made available, free of charge, to nonprofits with arts programming as well as New York City public schools and City agencies.

John F. Kennedy International Airport is the main international airport serving New York City. The airport is the busiest of the six airports in the New York airport system, the 13th-busiest airport in the United States, and the busiest international air passenger gateway into North America.

World-class transportation infrastructure is essential to economic growth and vitality. At the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, we keep the region moving by air, land, rail and sea, so that the people and businesses of our region continue to thrive. With engineering in our DNA, we are shaping the future of the region with groundbreaking yet practical facilities and systems built for the 21st century.

At 146Q, we strive to ensure equity as we prepare and motivate our students for a global society by teaching them critical thinking skills, varied perspectives, perseverance and a respect for cultural differences, for them to be proactive members of society today and tomorrow.