The Way It Was

By George Bulanda
The Way It Was
Courtesy of Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University
1965 Anyone who wants to see the Metropolitan Opera perform live these days has to go to Lincoln Center in New York City. However, there was a time when the Met, like a cultural missionary, set out on tour and brought opera — and its most glittering stars — to several cities, including Minneapolis, Atlanta, Cleveland, Memphis, and Detroit. From 1959 to 1985, the Met performed a week’s worth of operas in late May at Masonic Temple.

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