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The Metropolitan Opera House (also known as The Met) is an opera house located on Broadway at Lincoln Square on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. Part of Lincoln Center, the theater was designed by Wallace K. Harrison. It opened in 1966, replacing the original 1883 Metropolitan Opera House at Broadway and 39th
It was the demise of the Astor Opera House that spurred New York's elite to build a new opera house in what was then the more genteel neighborhood of Union Square, [9] led by Moses H. Grinnell, who formed a corporation in 1852 to fund the construction of the building, selling shares at $1,000 ($36,624 in 2023 dollars [10]) each to raise ...
The Metropolitan Opera is an American opera company based in New York City, currently resident at the Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center, situated on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Referred to colloquially as "the Met" [ a ] , the company is operated by the non-profit Metropolitan Opera Association, with Peter Gelb as the general ...
Dicapo Opera Theater (Dicapo Opera), New York City; Dorothy Chandler Pavilion (Los Angeles Opera), Los Angeles; Duchamp Opera House (1830) (Le Petit Paris), St. Martinville, Louisiana; Ellie Caulkins Opera House (Opera Colorado), Denver; French Opera House, New Orleans, Louisiana; Harrison Opera House (Virginia Opera), Norfolk, Virginia; Howard ...
The Metropolitan Opera House, also known as the Old Metropolitan Opera House [1] and Old Met, [2] was an opera house located at 1411 Broadway in Manhattan, New York City. Opened in 1883 and demolished in 1967, it was the first home of the Metropolitan Opera .
The following year Maretzek founded his own opera company, the Max Maretzek Italian Opera Company, with whom he continued to stage operas at the Astor Opera House through to 1852. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] Under Maretzek, the opera house saw the New York premiere of Donizetti's Anna Bolena on January 7, 1850 with soprano Apollonia Bertucca (later Maretzek's ...
Pike's Opera House, later renamed the Grand Opera House, was a theater in New York City on the northwest corner of 8th Avenue and 23rd Street, in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan. It was constructed in 1868, at a cost of a million dollars (equivalent to about 22.9 million US dollars in 2024), for distiller and entrepreneur Samuel N. Pike ...
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