For over five more decades it remained in constant use in turn as a cinema venue, a ballroom, a sports venue, and a church. The Met used the MOH through 1920, after which various opera companies used the house through 1934. 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 was originally called the Philadelphia Opera House. Here’s a quick little Wiki-history of the building, if you’re like me and never really knew this place existed:īuilt over the course of just a few months in 1908, the Metropolitan Opera House (MOH) was the ninth opera house built by impresario Oscar Hammerstein I. Today, the subject is the beautiful century-old Philadelphia Metropolitan Opera House, which sits at 858 North Broad street, between Parrish and Poplar streets. Another set of amazing photos from Zach Patten – who just Thursday sent in a series of new photos from inside the Divine Lorraine.
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