Ballet Venues - Sydney Opera House, Palais Garnier, Metropolitan Opera, Vienna State Opera, Royal Opera House, Paris Opera, Royal Albert Hall (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 47. Chapters: Sydney Opera House, Palais Garnier, Metropolitan Opera, Vienna State Opera, Royal Opera House, Paris Opera, Royal Albert Hall, Sadler's Wells Theatre, Salle Le Peletier, Berlin State Opera, Musiktheater im Revier, Theater Dortmund, Opernhaus Dortmund, Boston Opera House, David H. Koch Theater, Aylesbury Waterside Theatre, Rousse State Opera, Theater Regensburg, Grand Opera House, Stopera, Mercury Theatre, Notting Hill Gate, Royal Danish Theatre, National Opera and Ballet, Aalto Theatre, Halle Opera House, State Opera Stara Zagora. Excerpt: The Metropolitan Opera (the "Met") is an opera company, located in New York City. Originally founded in 1880, the company gave its first performance on October 22, 1883. The company is operated by the non-profit Metropolitan Opera Association, with Peter Gelb as general manager. The music director is James Levine. The Met performs at the Metropolitan Opera House, which is located in the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts on Broadway, in New York's Upper West Side. The Met was a founding member of Lincoln Center where it remains one of the center's twelve resident organizations. The Metropolitan Opera is the largest classical music organization in North America. It presents about 27 different operas each year in a season which lasts from late September through May. The operas are presented in a rotating repertory schedule with seven performances of four different works staged each week. Performances are given in the evening Monday through Saturday with a matinee on Saturday. Several operas are presented in new productions each season. Sometimes these are borrowed from or shared with other opera houses. The rest of the year's operas are given in revivals of productions from previous seasons. The operas in the Met's repertoire consist of works written in many different musical ge...