Lincoln Center Metropolitan Opera House
| "The Met" | |
Metropolitan Opera House seen from Lincoln Center Plaza
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| Address | 30 Lincoln Center Plaza |
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| Location | New York City |
| Coordinates | 40°46′22″N 73°59′3″W / 40.77278°N 73.98417°WCoordinates: 40°46′22″N 73°59′3″W / 40.77278°N 73.98417°W |
| Public transit |
Subway:  (all times)  (late nights) at 66th Street–Lincoln CenterNYC Bus: M5, M7, M11, M20, M66, M104 |
| Owner | Metropolitan Opera Association |
| Type | Opera house |
| Genre(s) | Modernist |
| Capacity | 3,800 |
| Construction | |
| Built | 1963–1966 |
| Opened | September 16, 1966 |
| Architect | Wallace Harrison, Harrison & Abramovitz Architects |
| Website | |
| http://metopera.org/ | |
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 for the Performing Arts, 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 3,800, the house is the largest repertory opera house in the world. Home to the Metropolitan Opera Company, the facility also hosts the American Ballet Theatre in the summer months.
Planning for a new home for the Metropolitan Opera began as early as the mid-1920s, when the backstage facilities of the former house were becoming vastly inadequate for growing repertory and advancing stagecraft. The development that what would become today's Rockefeller Center was to have a new 4,000-seat opera house at its center, but financial problems and the following stock market crash of 1929 postponed the relocation of the Metropolitan Opera, and the complex became more commercial-based. With the development moving forward, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. replaced the opera house with a 70-story skyscraper, opened as the RCA Building in 1933. Young Rockefeller Center architect Wallace Harrison would be approached some 20 years later by officers of the New York Philharmonic Society and the Met to develop a new home for both institutions.
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