In April 1922, J.F Rutherford gave the first radio broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House to an estimated 50,000 people on the discourse "Millions Now Living Will never Die". It remained a cinema venue after the MOH stopped presenting operas. The last opera production mounted at the MOH was a double billing of Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci under the baton of Aldo Franchetti, presented by the Chicago Grand Opera Company on May 5, 1934.īy 1920, while still being used as a performing venue for operas, the house began presenting silent films to the public. The MOH was also host to many traveling productions by opera companies from other cities. The Philadelphia Grand Opera Company and the Philadelphia La Scala Opera Company, two companies that primarily performed at the Academy of Music, also occasionally performed there during the 1920s and 1930s. After the Met returned to performing at the Academy of Music for the 1920-1921 opera season, the MOH became the home of the Philadelphia Civic Opera Company until 1928. The Philadelphia Operatic Society also used the house during and after the Met's tenure, through 1924. The theater was the home of the Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company between 19. While the Met owned the MOH, it also rented the venue to other opera companies for their performances.
The Metropolitan Opera's last performance at the MOH was Eugene Onegin on April 20, 1920, with Giuseppe de Luca in the title role and Claudia Muzio as Tatyana. The Met performed regularly at the MOH for the next decade, giving well over a hundred performances at the house. The Met's first production at the renamed theater was on December 13, 1910. In spite of two sold-out seasons of grand opera for the POC, Hammerstein ran into debt and had to sell his highly popular opera house to his competitor. The Met, which had annually toured to Philadelphia with performances at the Academy of Music, had been the POC's biggest competition for opera audiences. The theater was then renamed the Metropolitan Opera House. On April 26, 1910, Arthur Hammerstein, with his father's power of attorney, sold the Philadelphia Opera House to the New York Metropolitan Opera. The company's last performance at the house was of Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto on Mawith Giovanni Polese in the title role, Lalla Miranda as Gilda, Orville Harrold as the Duke of Mantua, and Giuseppe Sturani conducting. The POC continued to use the house for its productions through March 1910. The cast included Maria Labia in the title role, Charles Dalmorès as Don José, Andrés de Segurola as Escamillo, Alice Zeppilli as Micaëla, and Cleofonte Campanini conducting. The opera house officially opened on Novemwith a production of Georges Bizet's Carmen for the opening of the POC's first season. When it opened as the Philadelphia Opera House in 1908, it was the largest theater of its kind in the world, seating more than 4,000 people. McElfatrick & Son to design the opera house in 1907, and construction began the following year. The Metropolitan Opera House was built by Hammerstein to be the home of his then new opera company, the Philadelphia Opera Company (POC).
The opera house has been included in the National Register of Historic Places since 1972. The church stabilized much of the building, eventually paving the way for the latest renovation of the opera house in 2017–2018. The building then fell into serious disrepair and was unused and vacant from 1988 until 1995, when it became the "Holy Ghost Headquarters Revival Center at the Met".
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The Met used the theatre through 1920, after which various opera companies used the house through 1934.įor over five more decades it remained in constant use in turn as a movie theater, a ballroom, a sports venue, mechanic training center, and a church. Hammerstein sold the house to the Metropolitan Opera of New York City in 1910, when it was renamed. It was initially the home of Hammerstein's Philadelphia Opera Company, and called the "Philadelphia Opera House". īuilt over the course of just a few months in 1908, it was the ninth opera house built by impresario Oscar Hammerstein I. It is managed by Live Nation Philadelphia. Now known as The Met, the theatre reopened in December 2018, after a complete renovation, as a concert venue. It has been used for many different purposes over its history. The Metropolitan Opera House is a historic opera house located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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