The Metropolitan Opera is a vibrant home for the most creative and talented singers, conductors, composers, musicians, stage directors, designers, visual artists, choreographers, and dancers from around the world. Conceived by General Manager Peter Gelb and Dodie Kazanjian, the founding director and curator, the Arnold and Marie Schwartz Gallery Met continues and reaffirms the Met’s long history of groundbreaking relationships with major visual artists—such as Chagall and Hockney—while fostering new opportunities for collaboration. In 2014, the Met expanded its visual arts initiatives with a new series of short films, Gallery Met Shorts, in which celebrated visual artists use animation, video, and film to create original artworks set to music from operas in the Met’s current season. This film is presented in conjunction with the Met’s new production of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde, which opens the company’s 2016-17 season beginning September 26.