For over 30 years, Victor Callegari was the Chief Make-up Artist for The Metropolitan Opera. He started to work at the Met as an apprentice in 1965, the last year that the opera house resided at 40th street and Broadway, and moved with the company to the new Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center, which opened on September 16, 1966, with the world premiere of Barber’s Antony and Cleopatra. Mr. Callegari retired from The Metropolitan Opera in August 2010 after 45 years with the company during which he worked on several hundred opera productions, including more than thirty national and six international tours with the company, and over 125 telecasts for PBS and HD TV. He has worked with some of the world’s greatest opera singers, including Bergonzi, Corelli, Domingo, Fleming , Freni, Gedda, Ghiaurov, Giaiotti, Horne, MacNeil, Merrill, Nilsson, Pavarotti, Scotto, Siepi, Sutherland, Tebaldi, Terfel, Tozzi, Tucker, and Vickers, among others.During summer months, Callegari has given lectures and make-up demonstrations in Italy, Germany (Bayreuth), England, Israel (Tel Aviv), Austria (Salzburg), at the Teatro Colon in Argentina, and in Asia. He has been a judge at make-up competitions including the IBS (International Beauty School) in New York. Mr. Callegari is the recipient of numerous awards, including five Emmy Awards for make-up for Metropolitan Opera productions shown on PBS and on HD TV. He resides in New York City.(October 2011)