Metropolitan Opera October 26 2014
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Originally built to replace former Metropolitan Opera House at Broadway and 39th street, this building was designed by Wallace K. Harrison, a 16-acre complex built under the initiative of John D. Rockefeller III. The appearance of the centerpiece of the Lincoln Center is a study in romantic Modernist architecture, the boxlike nature of the building relieved by the front facade, with its arches and symmetrically glazed panels creating a spectacle suited to the grandeur of the performance within.
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The crystal sunburst chandeliers were donated by the Austrian Government.
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President Clinton and Luciano Pavarotti at the Metropolitan Opera
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Kanye West and Amber Rose visited the Opera in 2009
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The Auditorium