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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 ...
The PPL Center is an 8,500 seat capacity indoor sports arena in Allentown, Pennsylvania.It opened on September 10, 2014. It is the home arena for the Lehigh Valley Phantoms of the American Hockey League, the primary development hockey team for the Philadelphia Flyers.
The Philadelphia 76ers warming up prior to a game vs the New Jersey Nets, now the Brooklyn Nets, on the arena's old floor design in October 2007 Philadelphia Flyers fans leaving Wachovia Center after a playoff game in 2010 Rink-side view of Wells Fargo Center's hockey rink during a game between the Philadelphia Flyers and the Columbus Blue ...
It is located at 250 South Broad Street within the Avenue of the Arts cultural district of Center City Philadelphia. The Theatre was built by The Shubert Organization in 1918. In 1972, the theater came under the ownership of the Academy of Music, and was owned by the University of the Arts.
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The theater was then renamed the Metropolitan Opera House. The Met, which had annually toured to Philadelphia with performances at the Academy of Music, had been the POC's biggest competition for opera audiences. In spite of two sold-out seasons of grand opera for the POC, Hammerstein ran into debt and had to sell his highly popular opera house ...
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The first company to be known as the Philadelphia Grand Opera Company (PGOC) was founded in 1916. Its first production, Gaetano Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor, opened on December 18 of that year at the Academy of Music with Regina Vicarino in the title role, Forrest Lamont as Edgardo, and Ettore Martini conducting.