The gala will also celebrate Placido Domingo’s 40th anniversary with the company. Using a combination of historical material from the Met’s extensive archive and original animation and artwork, the production will recreate 26 arias opera from the last 125 years of Met productions. patent number 2263088).After the success of last year’s production of Satyagraha, Leo Warner and Mark Grimmer have once again collaborated with director Phelim McDermott and designer Julian Crouch to create a one night only celebration for the Metropolitan Opera’s 125th Anniversary Gala. Other inventions included a windscreen wiper, a furnace that burned crude oil, a house that revolved with the sun and piano action improvements adopted by the Steinway Company (U.S. As an inventor, Hofmann had over 70 patents, and his invention of pneumatic shock absorbers for cars and airplanes was commercially successful from 1905 to 1928. A child prodigy, he gave a debut recital in Warsaw at the age of 5, and a long series of concerts throughout Europe and Scandinavia, culminating in a series of concerts in America in 1887-88 that elicited comparisons with the young Mozart and the young Mendelssohn.Īs a composer, Hofmann published over one hundred works, many of those under the pseudonym Michel Dvorsky, including two piano concertos and ballet music. Josef Casimir Hofmann (Janu– February 16, 1957) was a Polish-American virtuoso pianist, composer, music teacher, and inventor. In addition, there were 224 standing room places.

Opened in 1883 and demolished in 1967, it was the first home of the Metropolitan Opera Company. The Metropolitan Opera House was an opera house located at 1411 Broadway in New York City. This is the view from the rear of the stage looking outward as famous pianist Josef Hofmann plays for the audience. In this historic capture, we see a full house at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City on November 28, 1937.

Photograph via The Natioanl Archives and Records Administration

Metropolitan opera house 1883 pictures