Historically, opera houses have served a variety of functions in towns and cities across the country hosting community dances, fairs, plays, and vaudeville shows as well as operas and other musical events such as Jenny Lind’s tour. Since 1966, the Metropolitan Opera has made its home at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts External in New York City opera vocalists such as Placido Domingo, Beverly Sills, Marian Anderson, and Leontyne Price have performed there. In its early days, the Met was graced with such legendary conductors as Arturo Toscanini and Gustav Mahler, and the great singers Enrico Caruso, Geraldine Farrar, and Christine Nilsson. The Metropolitan Opera External has attracted talented artists from around the world. Photograph of a painting by George Burroughs Torrey. Prints & Photographs Division Geraldine Farrar in La Tosca. Manuscript Division Metropolitan Opera House, Ne. Lovett, interviewer Connecticut, March 24, 1939.Īmerican Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writer’s Project, 1936 to 1940. It maka to soar de soul…De price is fifty cents. But de fine music, it isa de same in all language. It causa to swell de heart…you never heard de music so sweeta. The opera, although composed in French and based on Goethe’s German poem, was sung on this occasion in Italian, the favored language of the Met’s early management.ĭid you knowa…I make every month de arrangements for de Italian opera? It is ten times so much refreshing as de movies…It is marvelous. The Metropolitan Opera House (the Met) in New York City, then located on Broadway at 39th Street in New York City, opened on October 22, 1883, with a performance of Charles Gounod’s Faust, the tale of a German sorcerer who sold his soul to the devil in exchange for knowledge, power, youth, and love.
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