Metropolitan Opera House (Lincoln Center)

The Metropolitan Opera House (colloquially The Met) is an opera house located on Broadway at Lincoln Square in the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. Part of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the theater opened in 1966. It replaced the former Metropolitan Opera House opened in 1883 and located at Broadway and 39th St. and is the home of the Metropolitan Opera. At nearly 4,000 seats, it is the largest purpose-built opera house in the world.