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====Touring==== Beginning in 1898, the Metropolitan Opera company of singers and musicians undertook a six-week tour of American cities following its season in New York. These annual spring tours brought the company and its stars to cities throughout the U.S., most of which had no opera company of their own. In Cleveland, for example, Met stops were sporadic until 1924, when underwriting efforts spearheaded by [[Newton D. Baker]] led to 3 consecutive years of annual 8-engagement performances. This led to the formation of the Northern Ohio Opera Association led by future U.S. Senator [[Robert J. Bulkley]] with the express purpose of underwriting long-term touring contracts with the Met. Cleveland was a particular lucrative stop for the Met, which had no competition in the form of a local opera company, and performances were held in the enormous Public Auditorium, which sat well over 9,000 people.<ref>{{Cite web |date=May 11, 2018 |title=Northern Ohio Opera Assn. |url=https://case.edu/ech/articles/n/northern-ohio-opera-assn |access-date=January 9, 2023 |website=Encyclopedia of Cleveland History|publisher=[[Case Western Reserve University]]}}</ref> The Met's national tours continued until 1986.<ref name="tour">{{cite news| title=Metropolitan Opera to end National Tours| date=June 22, 1985| url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-06-22-ca-2249-story.html| newspaper=Los Angeles Times| access-date=January 17, 2018| archive-date=January 5, 2019| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190105032134/http://articles.latimes.com/1985-06-22/entertainment/ca-2249_1_metropolitan-opera| url-status=live}}</ref> The Met also has a long history of international tours, stretching back to its first European visit to Paris in 1910.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2016-07-29 |title=Before HD, the Met Tour Brought Opera to the US and World {{!}} Operavore |url=https://www.wqxr.org/story/before-hd-metropolitan-opera-tour-brought-opera-us-world/ |access-date=2025-02-25 |website=WQXR |language=en}}</ref> More recently, the company made a noteworthy tour of Japan in 2011, marking its seventh tour of the country since 1975, in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear disaster that resulted from a severe earthquake and subsequent tsunami. The company performed Puccini's ''La Bohème'', Verdi's ''Don Carlo'', and Donizetti's ''Lucia di Lammermoor''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Arita |first=Eriko |date=2011-06-03 |title=The Met tours Nagoya, Tokyo |url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2011/06/03/events/events-outside-tokyo/the-met-tours-nagoya-tokyo/ |access-date=2025-02-25 |website=The Japan Times |language=en}}</ref> Beginning in 2023, the company reinstated tours of the Met Orchestra. The European tour in June and July 2023, with stops in London, Paris, and Baden-Baden, marked the orchestra's first tour to Europe in more than 20 years.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Met Orchestra: European Tour |url=https://www.metopera.org/season/concerts-and-tours/the-met-orchestra-european-tour/ |access-date=2025-02-25 |website=www.metopera.org |language=en}}</ref> The orchestra made its first-ever tour of Asia in the summer of 2024, performing in Seoul, Hyogo, Tokyo, and Taipei.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Metropolitan Opera announces its first-ever Met Orchestra Asia tour, with performances in South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan, June 19–30 |url=https://www.metopera.org/about/press-releases/the-metropolitan-opera-announces-its-first-ever--met-orchestra-asia-tour/ |access-date=2025-02-25 |website=www.metopera.org |language=en}}</ref>
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