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The grandest of the halls at Lincoln Center, the Metropolitan Opera House is the home of the Metropolitan Opera, the largest classical music organisation in North America. Opened in 1966 as the centrepiece of the arts complex on the Upper West Side, the auditorium seats roughly 3,800 people, making it one of the biggest opera houses in the world. The Met itself is far older than the building. The company was founded in 1883 and performed for decades in an earlier house downtown, before moving t...