Metropolitan Opera at Lincoln Center Tickets

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• Location and address: Metropolitan Opera House, 30 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023, on the Upper West Side within Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.
• Venue type: Opera house; home of the Metropolitan Opera (the company).
• Seating chart: Met Opera seating zones include Orchestra, Parterre, Grand Tier, Dress Circle, Balcony, and Family Circle; official seat maps/descriptions are published by the Met (e.g., seat maps and zone descriptions).
• Capacity: seating about 3,800 seats; total capacity often cited around 3,975 including standing room (figures vary by source).
• Parking: Lincoln Center parking garage located underneath Lincoln Center; 24/7 access; reserve via LincolnCenterParking.org.
• Transit: No. 1 subway to 66th Street (Lincoln Center); several buses serve the area (M5, M7, M10, M11, M20, M66, M104, etc.).
• Nearby hotels: Mandarin Oriental, New York (80 Columbus Circle); Trump International Hotel & Tower New York (1 Central Park West); Empire Hotel (44 West 63rd Street); The Lucerne Hotel (201 W 79th Street).
• Notable events hosted: The Met’s Lincoln Center home opened in 1966; world premiere of Samuel Barber’s Antony and Cleopatra (Sept. 16, 1966) at this venue; the theater complex also hosts adjacent Lincoln Center venues (renaming notes below).
• Renaming/demolitions: The current Met Opera House (opened 1966) replaced the Old Met (1883) which was demolished in 1967; Lincoln Center venues have undergone renaming (e.g., New York State Theater became David H. Koch Theater; Avery Fisher Hall became David Geffen Hall).