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The interior of the Kimmel Center with Marian Anderson Hall (middle) and the Perelman Theater (left) in September 2005 Interior of Marian Anderson Hall during intermission of the Philadelphia Orchestra matinee concert in May 2015. In 1986, the Philadelphia Orchestra approved a plan to construct a new concert hall to replace the aging Academy of ...
Share of the American Academy of Music, issued October 15, 1856 The Academy of Music in 1870. The Academy of Music held an inaugural ball on January 26, 1857. Following it, The New York Times described the theater as "magnificently gorgeous, brilliantly lighted, solidly constructed, finely located, beautifully ornamented" but went on to lament "all that lacks is a few singers to render it 'the ...
Ensemble Arts Philly (also called Ensemble Arts) is a presenting brand name from the Kimmel Cultural Campus and The Philadelphia Orchestra, representing a wide variety of genres, including Broadway, comedy, theater, jazz, dance, and family presentations across three venues: the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, the Academy of Music, and the Miller Theater.
In 1972, the theater came under the ownership of the Academy of Music, and was owned by the University of the Arts. In November 2016, it was purchased by the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, now The Philadelphia Orchestra and Ensemble Arts, and later renamed the Miller Theater.
One of the "Big Five" American orchestras, the orchestra is based at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, where it performs its subscription concerts, numbering over 130 annually, at Marian Anderson Hall (formerly Verizon Hall). From its founding until 2001, the Philadelphia Orchestra gave its concerts at the Academy of Music. The ...
Avenue of the Arts street sign. Avenue of the Arts is the locale for many of the city's large theatres, including Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts (home of the Philadelphia Orchestra), the Academy of Music, Miller Theater, Wilma Theater, Liacouras Center, and Suzanne Roberts Theatre.
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The Academy of Music is the oldest existing opera house in the United States and was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1963; it remains the principal opera house for the city and is the home of the Pennsylvania Ballet. It was the principal concert hall in Philadelphia until the opening of the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts in