 It was the Metropolitan Opera that would become Macurdy's artistic home.Debuting as Tom in "Un ballo in maschera" in 1962, from there (until 1997), Macurdy would sing more than 1,000 performances, in a great variety of roles, including the King (later Ramfis) in "Aïda", Alessio (later Count Rodolfo) in "La sonnambula" (opposite Dame Joan Sutherland), Don Basilio in "Il barbiere di Siviglia", the Commendatore in "Don Giovanni" (perhaps his most acclaimed role), Ferrando in "Il trovatore", Prince Gremin in "Eugene Onegin", Colline, Count des Grieux in "Manon", Daland in "Der fliegende Holländer", Sparafucile, Agrippa in "Antony and Cleopatra (opera)" (world premiere), King Heinrich in "Lohengrin" (in Wieland Wagner's posthumous production), Sarastro, Ezra Mannon in "Mourning Becomes Electra" (world premiere), Alvise Badoero in "La Gioconda", Hunding in "Die Walküre" (with Jon Vickers), Count Walter in "Luisa Miller" (with Montserrat Caballé), Timur, Raimondo (to Renata Scotto's Lucia), the Grand Inquisitor in "Don Carlos" (with Franco Corelli), Titurel (later Gurnemanz) in "Parsifal", King Marke in "Tristan und Isolde", Rocco in "Fidelio" (with Anja Silja in her Met debut), Méphistophélès in "Faust", Pimenn in "Boris Godunov", Oroveso in "Norma", and Tirésias in "Œdipus rex" (in John Dexter's production).In the year 2000, he returned to the Met, for Hagen in "Götterdämmerung", under James Levine.