After earning a Master's degree and an Artist's Diploma in opera performance from Northwestern University Mr. Metts embarked on a widely varied career in opera, oratorio, musical theater and theater.  Metts has performed in such operas as Mozart's Die Zauberflote & Le Nozze di Figaro, Donizetti's L'Elisir D'amore, Verdi's La Traviata, Bizet's Carmen and Numerous Gilbert and Sullivan operettas with such opera companies as Opera Columbus, Cleveland Opera, Lyric Opera Cleveland, Marin Opera, Chicago Opera theater and Greensboro Opera

Equally at home on the musical theater stage Cal has recently performed the roles of Emile Debeque in South Pacific, and Man #1 in I love You, You're Perfect, Now Change with The Cortland Repertory Theater and Billy Bigelow in Carousel and Harold Higgins in My Fair lady as a guest artist with the Duluth Playhouse.  Other musical theater roles include Spelvin in Gershwin's Strike up the Band, Herman in Lerner & Lowe's The Most Happy Fella and Michael in Jones & Schmidt's I do, I Do.

Metts has sung with the Symphonies of St. Louis, Milwaukee, Columbus, Madison, Rockford, Sheboygan, Cheyenne, Pensacola and Walla Walla in such works as Handel's Messiah, Bach's B minor Mass, Mozart's Requiem, Haydn's Creation, Orff's Carmina Burana and numerous Pops concerts.

As a stage director Cal has recently directed Puccini's Gianni Schicci and evelyn, a world premier by composer Nicholas Mrocek at the University of Minnesota Duluth.  Directorial credits also include, Hello Dolly, Scrooge, The Three Musketeers, It's a Wonderful Life and The Producers at the Duluth Playhouse.

Metts is the Artistic director of Voyageurs; A graduate performance outreach troupe at the University of Minnesota Duluth.  Cal also serves as co-general and artistic director of Lyric Opera of the North with his wife Sarah Lawrence.  This season Metts will direct Gianni Schicchi and Cavellaria Rusticana for LOON.