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Metropolitan Opera

The Metropolitan Opera House is an opera house located on Broadway at Lincoln Square on the of in . Part of , the theater was designed by Wallace K.
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  • Type: Theater building
  • Description: opera house in Manhattan, New York
  • Also known as: “Metropolitan Opera House”, “The Met”, and “The Metropolitan Opera”
  • Address: 30 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023
  • Roof shape: flat
  • Wheelchair access: yes
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Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Central Park and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.

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A vast green swath of open space in the heart of , is a district in its own right, neatly separating the from the , stretching from Midtown at the southern end to at the north.

Arts center
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is a 16.3-acre complex of buildings in the neighborhood on the Upper West Side of . It has thirty indoor and outdoor facilities and is host to five million visitors annually.

University
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is a private performing arts conservatory in . Founded by Frank Damrosch as the Institute of Musical Art in 1905, the school later added dance and drama programs and became , named after its principal benefactor Augustus D. is situated 570 feet northeast of Metropolitan Opera.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Lincoln Square and Theater District.

Neighborhood
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is the name of both a and the surrounding neighborhood on the of in . is centered on the intersection of Broadway and Columbus Avenue, between West 65th and 66th streets.

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Broadway. Times Square. Madison Square Garden. The name says it all: the is the entertainment hub of the city, and possibly the entire nation.

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The covers a large area in upper bounded by 59th Street on the south, 125th Street on the north, the Hudson River on the west, and and Morningside Park on the east.

Metropolitan Opera

Latitude
40.77286° or 40° 46′ 22″ north
Longitude
-73.9847° or 73° 59′ 5″ west
Elevation
69 feet (21 metres)
Height
124 feet (38 metres)
Operator
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
Open location code
87G8Q2F8+44
Open­Street­Map ID
way 265354534
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­theatre
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­civic
Open­Street­Map attribute
roof-shape=­flat
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­yes
Geo­Names ID
5126699
Wiki­data ID
Q188031
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Uzbek—“Metropolitan Opera” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “أوبرا ميتروبوليتان”
  • Arabic: “دار أوبرا متروبوليتان”
  • Armenian: “Մետ”
  • Armenian: “Մետրոպոլիտեն օպերա”
  • Azerbaijani: “Metropoliten-opera”
  • Basque: “Metropolitan Opera House”
  • Basque: “Metropolitan Opera”
  • Bulgarian: “Метрополитан Опера”
  • Bulgarian: “Метрополитън опера”
  • Bulgarian: “Метрополитън Опера”
  • Bulgarian: “Метрополитън”
  • Catalan: “Metropolitan de Nova York”
  • Catalan: “Metropolitan Opera House”
  • Catalan: “Metropolitan Opera”
  • Catalan: “Metropolitan”
  • Catalan: “New York Metropolitan Opera House”
  • Catalan: “Òpera del Metropolitan”
  • Catalan: “Òpera Metropolitana”
  • Catalan: “The Metropolitan Opera”
  • Chinese: “大都会歌剧院”
  • Chinese: “大都会歌剧院协会”
  • Chinese: “大都會歌劇院”
  • Chinese: “大都會歌劇院協會”
  • Czech: “budova Metropolitní opery”
  • Czech: “Metropolitan Opera House”
  • Czech: “Metropolitan Opera”
  • Czech: “Metropolitní opera”
  • Danish: “Metropolitan Opera”
  • Danish: “Metropolitan Operaen”
  • Danish: “Metropolitan”
  • Danish: “The Met”
  • Danish: “The Metropolitan Opera”
  • Dutch: “Metropolitan Opera”
  • Esperanto: “Metropola Operejo”
  • Esperanto: “Metropola Opero”
  • Esperanto: “Metropolitan Opera”
  • Esperanto: “Metropolitena operejo”
  • Esperanto: “Metropolitena Operejo”
  • Esperanto: “Metropolitena opero”
  • Esperanto: “Metropolitena Opero”
  • Estonian: “Metropolitan Opera House”
  • Estonian: “Metropolitan Opera”
  • Finnish: “Metropolitan Opera House”
  • Finnish: “Metropolitan Opera”
  • Finnish: “Metropolitan-ooppera”
  • French: “Metropolitan Opera de New York”
  • French: “Metropolitan Opera House”
  • French: “Metropolitan Opera Orchestra”
  • French: “Metropolitan Opera”
  • French: “New York Metropolitan Opera”
  • French: “New York’s Metropolitan Opera”
  • Galician: “Metropolitan Opera House”
  • Galician: “Metropolitan Opera”
  • Galician: “Ópera do Metropolitan”
  • Georgian: “მეტროპოლიტენ ოპერა”
  • Georgian: “მეტროპოლიტენ-ოპერა”
  • Georgian: “მეტროპოლიტენის ოპერა”
  • Georgian: “მეტროპოლიტენის ოპერის თეატრი”
  • Georgian: “მეტროპოლიტენის ოპერის სახლი”
  • German: “Metropolitan Opera House”
  • German: “Metropolitan Opera”
  • Greek: “Μετροπόλιταν Όπερα”
  • Greek: “Μητροπολιτική Όπερα της Νέας Υόρκης”
  • Greek: “Μητροπολιτική Όπερα”
  • Hebrew: “המטרופוליטן אופרה”
  • Hebrew: “מטרופוליטן אופרה”
  • Hindi: “द मेट्रोपॉलिटन ऑपेरा”
  • Hungarian: “Metropolitan Opera”
  • Indonesian: “Metropolitan Opera”
  • Irish: “An Opera Meitreapólach”
  • Irish: “Áras an Opera Meitreapólaigh”
  • Italian: “Metropolitan Opera House”
  • Italian: “Metropolitan Opera”
  • Italian: “Teatro Metropolitan di New York”
  • Italian: “Teatro Metropolitan”
  • Japanese: “メトロポリタン・オペラ”
  • Japanese: “メトロポリタンオペラ”
  • Japanese: “メトロポリタンオペラハウス”
  • Japanese: “メトロポリタン歌劇場”
  • Javanese: “Metropolitan opera, USA”
  • Javanese: “Metropolitan Opera”
  • Korean: “메트로폴리탄 가극장”
  • Korean: “메트로폴리탄 오페라 극장”
  • Korean: “메트로폴리탄 오페라 하우스”
  • Korean: “메트로폴리탄 오페라”
  • Lithuanian: “Metropolitan Opera”
  • Luxembourgish: “Metropolitan Opera”
  • Malay: “Metropolitan opera”
  • Malay: “Metropolitan Opera”
  • Malay: “The Met”
  • Marathi: “द मेट्रोपॉलिटन ऑपेरा”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Met”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Metropolitan Opera House”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Metropolitan opera”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Metropolitan Opera”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “New York Metropolitan Opera”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “The Metropolitan Opera Association of New York City”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “The Metropolitan Opera”
  • Persian: “اپرای متروپولیتن”
  • Persian: “تالار اپرای متروپولیتن نیویورک”
  • Persian: “سالن اپرای متروپولیتن نیویورک”
  • Polish: “Metropolitan Opera”
  • Portuguese: “Metropolitan Opera Association”
  • Portuguese: “Metropolitan opera house”
  • Portuguese: “Metropolitan Opera House”
  • Portuguese: “Metropolitan opera”
  • Portuguese: “Metropolitan Opera”
  • Portuguese: “New York Metropolitan Opera”
  • Romanian: “MET”
  • Romanian: “Metropolitan opera”
  • Romanian: “Metropolitan Opera”
  • Romanian: “Metropolitan”
  • Russian: “Metropolitan Opera”
  • Russian: “Метрополитен опера”
  • Russian: “Метрополитен Опера”
  • Russian: “Метрополитен-опера”
  • Russian: “Метрополитен-Опера”
  • Russian: “Метрополитэн Опера”
  • Russian: “Метрополитэн-опера”
  • Serbian: “Метрополитен опера”
  • Serbian: “Опера Метрополитен”
  • Slovak: “Metropolitan Opera”
  • Slovenian: “Metropolitanska opera”
  • Spanish: “Metropolitan Opera House”
  • Spanish: “Metropolitan Opera Orchestra”
  • Spanish: “Metropolitan Opera”
  • Spanish: “Opera del Metropolitan”
  • Spanish: “Ópera del Metropolitan”
  • Spanish: “Opera Metropolitana de Nueva York”
  • Spanish: “Ópera Metropolitana de Nueva York”
  • Spanish: “The Metropolitan Opera”
  • Swedish: “Met”
  • Swedish: “Metropolitan Opera Association”
  • Swedish: “Metropolitan Opera House”
  • Swedish: “Metropolitan Opera”
  • Telugu: “డా మెట్రోపాలిటన్ ఓపెరా”
  • Turkish: “Metropolitan opera”
  • Turkish: “Metropolitan Opera”
  • Ukrainian: “Метрополітан Опера”
  • Ukrainian: “Метрополітен опера”
  • Ukrainian: “Метрополітен Опера”
  • Ukrainian: “Метрополітен-опера”
  • Uzbek: “Metropoliten-opera”
  • Uzbek: “Metropoliten-Opera”

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