{"id":32480,"date":"2025-11-07T22:16:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T22:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/32480\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T22:16:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T22:16:10","slug":"how-the-metropolitan-opera-feeds-its-audiences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/32480\/","title":{"rendered":"How the Metropolitan Opera Feeds Its Audiences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p aria-live=\"assertive\" class=\"css-1dv1kvn\">new video loaded: How the Metropolitan Opera Feeds Its Audiences<\/p>\n<p>transcript<\/p>\n<p>Back<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1nng8z9\">transcript<\/p>\n<p>How the Metropolitan Opera Feeds Its AudiencesOpera is an art form that favors extravagant appetites. The marriage of music and cuisine is nowhere more evident than at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City, where feeding about 3,800 audience members and 3,000 employees each performance is itself a production of operatic proportions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-8hvvyd\">We\u2019re here at the Metropolitan Opera because the Met Opera seats about 3,000 people per night. So we\u2019re taking a behind-the-scenes look to find out how everyone is fed at the Met. The employee cafeteria serves all of the 2,000 employees who work here, not to mention the singers who come and the orchestra. Then, there are 13 bars spread across all of the floors. There are 3,000 people who come to see an opera on a typical night, so they disperse among the 13 bars to get a glass of champagne and a sandwich during intermission. Then, there\u2019s the Grand Tier restaurant. The Grand Tier restaurant is the formal sit-down restaurant where you can have a three- or four-course meal. You\u2019re served before the show and during intermission. It\u2019s $118. If you did a four-course prix fixe, or you can order \u00e0 la carte. And then there\u2019s the members-only room, which has its own special hors d\u2019oeuvres and its own bar. I\u2019ve been coming to the Met practically my whole life. Usually I go to one of the bars and get the smoked salmon sandwich.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A fine dining restaurant with a red carpet, large windows and many seated patrons and standing staff members.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/06FD-opera-food-13-blvf-jumbo.jpg\" data-testid=\"betamax-poster\"   fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"_poster_9lakg_19\"\/>Opera is an art form that favors extravagant appetites. The marriage of music and cuisine is nowhere more evident than at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City, where feeding about 3,800 audience members and 3,000 employees each performance is itself a production of operatic proportions.<\/p>\n<p>By Nyt Cooking<\/p>\n<p>November 7, 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"new video loaded: How the Metropolitan Opera Feeds Its Audiences transcript Back transcript How the Metropolitan Opera Feeds&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2947,19578,9,11,10,18639],"class_list":["post-32480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-classical-music","tag-metropolitan-opera","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-opera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}