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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 02:04:00

The Met came from New York to sing Aida for opening night in 1934; then the building spent twenty years locked while the city argued about it. The Stifel Theatre at 1400 Market Street opened on 21 April 1934 as the Municipal Opera House, half of the LaBeaume and Klein-designed Municipal Auditorium complex whose 322-foot marble facade anchors St. Louis's grandest run of civic buildings. Renamed the Kiel Opera House in 1943 for Mayor Henry Kiel, the 3,100-seat hall hosted everything the century o...