Robert Tuggle (April 17, 1932, Martinsville, Virginia – January 21, 2016, New York City) was an American writer on music and a long-time staff member at the Metropolitan Opera from 1961–2015.
In 1987 he was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Album Notes for the Met's recording of The Mapleson Cylinders.
[2] He then served in the Field Artillery Branch of the United States Army for two years before joining the staff of the Metropolitan Opera in the education department in 1957.
[1] From 1961–77 Tuggle was the director of the education department at the Met; overseeing the company's goal to engage students and teachers with the artform of opera.
He was instrumental in the creation of the Met's digital database of performances, launched in 2005, which is available to the public for free online.