#TBT to the 2019 New York City Pride March: Last year, for the first time in its history, the Met took to the streets for the annual LGBTQ Pride March. More than 100 company members from every corner of the organization joined two of opera’s greatest stars—mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe and countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo—to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall uprising and celebrate World Pride. While we’re sad not to be able to march again this year, we’ve got some virtual

The Apollo Theater in Harlem, New York is the most famous performance venue associated with Black American entertainers throughout history.The Apollo has played a major role in the emergence of jazz, swing, bebop, R&B, gospel, blues, and soul — and brought us early performances and debuts of Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Billie Holiday, Sammy Davis Jr., James Brown, Gladys Knight, Luther Vandross, D’Angelo, Lauryn Hill, and countless others who began their road to stardom on the Apollo stage.O