abandoned philadelphia metropolitan opera house

Glazer’s descriptions in Philadelphia Theatres, A ‑Z stand as a somber record of an all but lost world. The vast majority had come and gone and by 1991 Glazer turned over 21 file cabinets packed with “original photographs, dedication programs, playbills, news clippings, and correspondence memorabilia” to the Athenaeum of Philadelphia, he held out only a faint glimmer of hope that one of the biggest, and arguably one of the best-The Metropolitan Opera House at Broad and Poplar Streets-might survive. Glazer described in comprehensive detail no fewer than 813 theatres built over the centuries. An accountant from Delaware County, Glazer spent much of his adult life assembling a massive research collection which he managed to distill into his book, Philadelphia Theatres, A ‑Z.

Metropolitan Opera House – Broad and Poplar Streets, ()ĭuring those long decades when Philadelphia’s many performing arts venues were disappearing, every last one of them had a friend in Irv Glazer, who “never met an old theater” he didn’t like.

Abandoned philadelphia metropolitan opera house