The Metropolitan Opera House opened on October 22, 1883, with a performance of Charles Gounod’s Faust featuring Swedish soprano Christine Nilsson. According to The Sun: ...

The Metropolitan Opera has been in operation since 1883 when its home was on 39th Street and Broadway.In 1966 the Met Opera moved into its current Wallace Harrison-designed theater at Lincoln ...

METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE. Share full article. Feb. 7, 1888. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from February 7, 1888, Page 5 Buy Reprints.

But when it comes to opera, the Metropolitan Opera leaves us in the dust. Everything is big at the Met: a 3,800-seat house (vs. 2,200 at the Winspear Opera House) and a 2022-23 schedule of 23 ...

Great Performances: The Opera House, the new documentary by multiple Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Susan Froemke (Grey Gardens; Lalee’s Kin: The Legacy of Cotton) surveys a remarkable ...

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PHILADELPHIA (CBS) --Folks involved with plans for the Metropolitan Opera House on North Broad Street indicate the building may soon be turned into a music venue. Representatives of developer Eric ...

Developer Eric Blumenfeld calls the 39,200-square-foot Philadelphia Metropolitan Opera House "the Divine Lorraine, turned on its side." And like the Divine Lorraine, the opera house has sat vacant for ...

The rebirth of the Philadelphia Metropolitan Opera House at age 100 has cost $56 million in total.-----Send a News Tip to Action News. Learn More About 6abc Apps. Report a correction or typo.

The Philadelphia Metropolitan Opera House is now leasing. The main tenant hasn’t formally been announced, but the owners are actively seeking other tenants to lease out the enormous historic building ...