Travel Reference
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Metropolitan Opera House
OPERA
New York's premier opera company, the Metropolitan Opera is the place to see classics
such as
Carmen, Madame Butterfly
and
Macbeth,
not to mention Wagner's
Ring Cycle
.
The Opera also hosts premieres and revivals of more contemporary works, such as Peter
Sellars'
Nixon in China,
which played here in 2011. The season runs from September to
April.
(
www.metopera.org
;
Lincoln Center, 64th St, at Columbus Ave;
1 to 66th St-Lincoln Center)
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Film Society of Lincoln Center
One of New York's cinematic gems, the Film Society provides an invaluable platform for a
wide gamut of documentary, feature, independent, foreign and avant-garde art pictures.
Films screen in one of two facilities at Lincoln Center: the new Elinor Bunin Munroe Film
Center, a more intimate, experimental venue, or the Walter Reade Theater, with wonder-
fully wide, screening room-style seats.
(
CINEMA
212-875-5456;
www.filmlinc.com
;
1 to 66th St-Lincoln
Center)
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New York Philharmonic
CLASSICAL MUSIC
The oldest professional orchestra in the US (dating back to 1842) holds its season every
year at Avery Fisher Hall. Directed by Alan Gilbert, the son of two Philharmonic musi-
cians, the orchestra plays a mix of classics (Tchaikovsky, Mahler, Haydn) and some con-
temporary works, as well as concerts geared toward children.
(
www.nyphil.org
;
Avery Fisher Hall,
Lincoln Center, cnr Columbus Ave & 65th St;
;
1 to 66 St-Lincoln Center)
