Metropolitan Opera House opens at Lincoln Center in New York City 50 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Sep 16 1966)


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(Friday, September 16, 1966) — The Metropolitan Opera officially opened its new opera house at New York’s Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts tonight with the world premiere of Samuel Barber’s “Antony and Cleopatra.”