The Metropolitan Opera House, also known as the Old Metropolitan Opera House and Old Met, was an opera house located at 1411 Broadway in Manhattan, New York City. Opened in 1883 and demolished in 1967
Metropolitan Opera House in 1905, looking uptown
Recital at the old Met by pianist Josef Hofmann, November 28, 1937
Metropolitan Opera House program cover depicting the Proscenium arch in 1935
Rockefeller Center
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Rockefeller Center is a complex of 19 commercial buildings covering 22 acres between 48th Street and 51st Street in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. The 14 original Art Deco buildi
Metropolitan Opera House (39th Street)
…designs for new opera houses were created by various architects including Joseph Urban. Proposed new locations included Columbus Circle and what is now Rockefeller Center, but none of these plans came to fruition. Only with the development of Lincoln Center on New York's Upper West Side did the Met finally have the…
View from the northeast of 30 Rockefeller Plaza at the heart of the complex in 2007
Rockefeller Center originated as a plan to replace the old Metropolitan Opera House (pictured).
Construction progress in December 1933
The iconic photograph Lunch atop a Skyscraper depicts workers resting for a meal during the construction of 30 Rockefeller Plaza.