The Metropolitan Opera, commonly known as the Met, is an American opera company based in New York City. It is the largest classical music organization in North America and is currently resident at the Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center. The Met was founded in 1883 as an alternative to the previously established Academy of Music opera house and debuted the same year in a new building on 39th and Broadway (now known as the "Old Met") . It moved to the new Lincoln Center location in 1966. The Met has given the U.S. premieres of some of the most important operas in the repertory. Each season, the Met stages more than 200 opera performances in New York, and more than 800,000 people attend the performances in the opera house during the season. The operas in the Mets repertoire consist of a wide range of works, from 18th-century Baroque and 19th-century Bel canto to the Minimalism of the late 20th and 21st centuries. The Met Titles are a custom-designed system for simultaneous translation created by the Metropolitan Opera, available in English, Spanish, and German for all opera performances, and in Italian for all Italian-language operas.