The Met is, in opera parlance, a repertory house.

Certainly not at a repertory house, as they have indeed vanished.

This was the kind of true theater that opera in general, especially in a nightly repertory house, does not often approach.

Many of the theaters that were our repertory houses have been forced to go out of business.

Put it down, perhaps, to the pressures of a repertory house: seven performances, six days, a week.

Singing in the repertory houses of Europe was once virtually the only way an American could begin a career.

Achieving the precision necessary to Wilsonian theater is not easy in a big and busy repertory house.

Is the labor-intensive Wilson style wrong for a big, busy repertory house?

Many repertory houses continue to show two films, usually related in some way, back to back.

It makes no difference that the repertory house may often outgross the conventional first-run theater.