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Final curtain falls on New York Met after 83 years
The Metropolitan Opera House ends an era on April 16 as it moves to a new Lincoln Center home in September. Since opening in 1883, legends like Nilsson Campanini Caruso Melba and Tosca stars filled its stage, while offstage glamour and quirky acoustics marked its grand history.
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New York
Metropolitan Opera House
The
Met
Lincoln Center
Opera House
la Scala
Opera
Christine Nilsson
Italo Campanini
Gounod
Faust
Sembrich
Lilli Lehmann
the de Reszkes
Calve
Melba
Caruso
Martinelli
Farrar
Gigli
Chaliapin
Jeritza
Ponselle
Flagstad
Mel
Enrico Caruso
Pagliacci