The Met is one of the few opera houses in the world with its own pipe organ! Thomas Lausmann, the Met’s Director of Music, tells us about the instrument, which has nearly 1,300 pipes and weighs almost nine tons, as well as its recent restoration that was completed just in time for the 2022–23 season. Experience the organ now in Puccini’s Tosca (bit.ly/3HG2Chb) and Britten’s Peter Grimes (bit.ly/3aY33Hc). | The Metropolitan Opera

Last May, a quartet of opera’s most powerful voices—sopranos Christine Goerke, Soprano and Elza van den Heever, tenor Andreas Schager, and bass-baritone Michael Volle—came together at the Hessisches Staatstheater in Wiesbaden, Germany, for an astonishing program of selections by Wagner and Strauss as part of our acclaimed Met Stars Live in Concert series. Now, you can relive this historic summit on Met Opera on Demand, our subscription streaming service, which offers unlimited access to more tha