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Metropolitan Opera House (Lincoln Center)

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 Street. With a seating capacity of approximately 3,850, the house is the largest repertory opera house in the world.[1] Home to the Metropolitan Opera Company, the facility also hosts the American Ballet Theatre in the summer months.

Address

30 Lincoln Center Plaza

New York City

40°46′22″N 73°59′3″W / 40.77278°N 73.98417°W / 40.77278; -73.98417

Subway: "1" train at 66th Street–Lincoln Center
Bus: M5, M7, M11, M20, M66, M104

Metropolitan Opera Association

Opera house

Modernist

3,850

1963–1966

September 16, 1966 (1966-09-16)

Wallace Harrison, Harrison & Abramovitz Architects

Pasqual Mario Marafioti

Affron, Charles; Affron, Mirella Jona (September 22, 2014). . University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-95897-5.

Grand Opera: The Story of the Met

Newhouse, Victoria (June 15, 1989). . Rizzoli. ISBN 978-0-8478-0644-7.

Wallace K. Harrison, Architect

Citations


Works cited

Media related to Metropolitan Opera House at Wikimedia Commons

Official website

Met Opera Shop

ALL ARTS: The House that Opera Built