This signals that the performance is about to start. Cluster-shaped chandeliers, their crystals aglow, begin to ascend toward the high ceiling overhead. Each night, audience members are treated to an experience unmatched by other opera houses. After more than fifty seasons, it still retains the quintessential Manhattan glamour and mid-century modern elegance. While the original opera house opened in 1883 at 39th Street and Broadway, it has been at its current location since 1962. Two Marc Chagall painted murals, framed in large windows of the grand tier lobby, give the opera house an especially distinct look. Koch Theater and New York Philharmonic’s David Geffen Hall, the Metropolitan Opera looks over a vast plaza and the wondrous, ever-spouting Revson Fountain. Situated between New York City Ballet’s David H.

The majestic 3,800-seat opera house is located at the iconic Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, and is the only structure with a facade facing the major thoroughfare of Broadway on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. The Metropolitan Opera House is among the most powerful cultural institutions in the world of opera.

Metropolitan opera house seating map