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The David H. Koch Theater is a theater for ballet and dance at Lincoln Center in the Lincoln Square neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City.Originally named the New York State Theater, [1] the venue has been home to the New York City Ballet since its opening in 1964, the secondary venue for the American Ballet Theatre in the fall, and served as home to the New York City Opera from 1964 to 2011.
The NYCO was founded as the New York City Center Opera, and originally made its home at the New York City Center on West 55th Street, in Manhattan.City Center's chair of the finance committee, Morton Baum, mayor Fiorello La Guardia and council president Newbold Morris hired Laszlo Halasz hired the company's first director, [12] serving in that position from 1943 until 1951.
Music Hall (Cincinnati Opera), Cincinnati; New York State Theater (See David H. Koch Theater) (formerly New York City Opera), New York; Newberry Opera House (South Carolina Opera and Asheville Lyric Opera), Newberry, South Carolina; Peabody Opera House, in St. Louis; Plaza Theatre, in El Paso, Texas; Rapides Opera House, Alexandria, Louisiana
The center's first three buildings, David Geffen Hall (formerly Avery Fisher Hall, originally named Philharmonic Hall), David H. Koch Theater (formerly the New York State Theater), and the Metropolitan Opera House were opened in 1962, 1964, and 1966, respectively.
Opera houses on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state) (5 P) O. Opera houses in New York City (14 P) Pages in category "Opera houses in New York ...
Situated at the western end of Lincoln Center Plaza, the Metropolitan Opera House faces Columbus Avenue and Broadway and forms an axis with Philip Johnson's David Koch Theater (formerly the New York State Theater) and David Geffen Hall (formerly Avery Fisher Hall), designed by Max Abramovitz, with the plaza's fountain at the center. Although ...