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On October 22, 1883, 125 years ago, the Metropolitan Opera, at 39th and Broadway, had its first opening night. The opera was “Faust,” seats were $1, and the program carried advertisements for Runkel’s chocolates and coal. As for quality, wrote New York Tribune critic Henry Krehbiel, “The performance of the opera was on the average plan of performances of the same work … not better as a whole nor worse as a whole.”
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|On October 22, 1883, 125 years ago, the Metropolitan Opera, at 39th and Broadway, had its first opening night. The opera was “Faust,” seats were $1, and the program carried advertisements for Runkel’s chocolates and coal. As for quality, wrote New York Tribune critic Henry Krehbiel, “The performance of the opera was on the average plan of performances of the same work … not better as a whole nor worse as a whole.”
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