The Metropolitan Opera (Met) facilitates over 200 opera productions in New York each season. The renowned opera company draws support from the Met Guild. Aside from supporting the Met, the guild is the world's leading arts education organization, providing a broad range of programs intended for schools and adults in the community. The Met Guild espouses the opera-based learning instructional approach.
This approach utilizes various arts and skills, which are elements of opera production, such as music composition, acting, staging, singing, libretto writing, critical responses, and literary analysis as methods for classroom learning. Children acquire important skills in cooperation, literacy, self-assurance, and a higher capacity for self-expression. In connection, the Met Guild offers programs including Students Compose Opera and Urban Voices to interested schools. There are also in-depth workshops, community outreach programs, and pre-performance talks for adults to deepen their knowledge and appreciation of the opera.