We present to you four of the 80 permanent and 66 extra singers that make up the Metropolitan Opera Chorus. These are the performers you see every night at the Metropolitan Opera, wearing amazing costumes and standing on immense, intricate sets. Their rehearsal schedule is intense with music and staging rehearsals every day and seven performances a week. Many days they may work on or perform 3-4 different operas. The "extra" chorus at the MET is a group of singers asked to perform in the larger opera productions that require more people and more sound in the chorus. Auditions for both groups are extremely competitive.

Lyric soprano Karen Dixon (see picture), mezzo-soprano Patricia Steiner, tenor Jeffrey Mosher, and baritone Robert Maher represent four of the many different voice types and ranges in the full time Metropolitan Opera Chorus. Ms. Dixon is a member of the "extra chorus" joining them the past two seasons in the Lohengrin production. This season Ms. Dixon will be performing seven operas. Ms. Steiner and messieurs Mosher and Maher are all members of the permanent opera chorus and can be seen and heard in every opera and concert requiring a chorus presented by the Metropolitan Opera. These would include favorites such as: La Boheme, La Traviata, Carmen, Faust, Aida, and Le Nozze di Figaro as well as the new productions each season including Susanna, Moses und Aron, and Kata Kabanova. All of these singers have extensive solo experience in the New York area and around the country and are pleased to be able to perform for you a variety of their favorite opera arias, duets and quartets.

The pianist/accompanist is Mr. Scott Rednour. He sits on the esteemed faculty of The Manhattan School of Music.

Other organizations interested in this ensemble were also interested in:
The New York Vivaldi Orchestra
The New York Strauss Orchestra