page_title: Winter Garden Theatre
hierarchical_section_title: Winter Garden Theatre
caption_attribution_description: English: Identifier: ourtheatrestoday00dimm (find matches) Title: Our theatres to-day and yesterday Year: 1913 (1910s) Authors: Dimmick, Ruth Crosby Subjects: Theater -- New York (State) New York Publisher: New York&#160;: The H.K. Fly Company Contributing Library: University of California Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: MSN View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: ' Text Appearing After Image: CHAPTER XV.ANOTHER HAMMERSTEIN VENTURE. The Manhattan Opera House, situated on the north side of Thirty-fourth street, between Eighth and Ninth avenues, was erected by Oscar Hammerstein at a cost of $2,000,000, 1906 and opened December 3, 1905, with a performance ofI Puritani, with Bonci in the tenor role- This eifortwas undoubtedly Hammersteins biggest achievement, and thoughfor several years it was run in opposition to the MetropolitanOpera House as a home of grand opera, it was not a financialsuccess and at the close of the 1909-10 season Hammerstein soldhis interests to the Metropolitan Company, agreeing not to pro-duce opera again in New York. For a time the house shelteredvaudeville, though recently dramatic offerings, chiefly those play-ing return engagements, have appeared here. A fact rather amus-ing in connection with the building of the Manhattan OperaHouse is that the details of construction were arranged and car-ried out by Mr. Hammerstein on the steps and in the lobby of Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
context_page_description: The Winter Garden Theatre is a Broadway theatre located at 1634 Broadway between 50th and 51st streets in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.
context_section_description: The Winter Garden Theatre is a Broadway theatre located at 1634 Broadway between 50th and 51st streets in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.
caption: The Winter Garden Theatre, 1913
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