Performance Venues in New York
Metropolitan Opera House
Lincoln Center, 70 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023
Metropolitan Opera House is part of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts complex.
As part of the Lincoln Center for Performing Arts, this venue dedicated to ballet and opera first opened in 1966, replacing the original Metropolitan Opera House that opened in 1883 on Broadway, but was too small for advancing technology and stagecraft. It has a total of 4,000 seats, making it the largest purpose-built opera house in the world.
David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center
Lincoln Center, 10 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023
David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center is part of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts complex.
David Geffen Hall is a concert hall located inside the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts complex on Manhattan's Upper West Side, New York City. The venue was opened in 1962 and has a seating capacity of 2,738. It is the home of the New York Philharmonic, and is used for many different events, including concerts and orchestral events, to ceremonies and other special events. It has also been used to record music albums.