The play concerns the hopes and fears of a soprano making her Metropolitan Opera debut.
And when she made her Metropolitan Opera debut in 1955, she became the first black singer to perform there.
Shortly after that the singer pulled out of a scheduled Metropolitan Opera debut due to illness.
He took the apartment in 1977, fresh from his Metropolitan Opera debut, and has never given it up.
He had his Metropolitan Opera debut on 11 October 1976.
Now a resident of London, she made her Metropolitan Opera debut only six years ago.
He made his Metropolitan Opera debut in 1981 as Papageno.
Since her Metropolitan Opera debut in 1973, she has been a regular member of the company.
In the film, he meets her at the time of his Metropolitan Opera debut in 1903.
In 1942 he made his Metropolitan Opera debut; he conducted the company regularly for the next four years.