The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra is far from just a pit band.

Members of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra have quite a different idea, however.

The players, of course, are from the ranks of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra.

The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra's contract runs until 2001 and calls for a salary of $80,964 in the final year.

For just over a year he was a co-principal trumpeter in the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra.

Prior to that, he was principal clarinetist at the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra.

In recruiting players, the society had to reach well beyond its core members to outside musicians, among them some from the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra.

The early concerts utilized many members of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra.

At 17, he was accepted by the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra after an audition.

The members of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra onstage seemed to like his work very much.