In the succeeding decades, the theater served a variety of purposes, including ballroom, sports venue and, most recently, a church.
The theater hosted opera productions until 1934, when it became a movie theater. It had the largest capacity (over 4,000 seats) of any theater of its kind in the world when it opened. Opened in 1908 with a production of Carmen, the Met (as it is affectionately known) was built by Oscar Hammerstein I, a theater impresario and the grandfather of the well-known lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II. Philadelphia’s historic Metropolitan Opera House, located at Broad and Poplar Streets in North Philadelphia, has undergone a painstaking renovation over the past couple years. The Power of Penn campaign will be hosting an event tonight at a newly renovated historic building renovated by an architect with a Penn connection.
National Architecture Week: Renovation of Philadelphia’s Historic Metropolitan Opera House
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