The New York City Opera (NYCO) is an American opera company located in Manhattan in New York City. The company has been active from 1943 through its 2013 bankruptcy, and again since 2016 when it was revived.
Jazz at Lincoln Center, home of New York City Opera 2016–present
The New York State Theater auditorium as seen from the stage (now the David H. Koch Theater)
Beverly Sills in 1956, photo by Carl Van Vechten
Promenade of the David H. Koch Theater
New York City Center is a performing arts center at 131 West 55th Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. Developed by the Shriners between 1922 and 1924 as a Masonic meeting house, it has operated as a performing arts complex owned by the government of New York City. City Center is a performing home for several major dance companies as well as the Manhattan Theatre Club (MTC), and it hosts the Encores! musical theater series and the Fall for Dance Festival annually.
New York City Center in 2010
Main entrance on 55th Street
56th Street facade
A bond issued in 1922 to raise funds for the construction of the Mecca Temple