I went to see an opera at the Metropolitan Opera House yesterday, and while at the time at the opera, I looked over the architecture. The architecture is the perfect example of late 60s modernism, when the movement, in my opinion, was declining. The exterior of the opera house is a stone gray cube with some arches but not much else, which was the element that modernism strived for. Inside are concrete curving stairways covered in red carpeting, but not only were the floors carpeted but the walls were carpeted.

Inside, the stage was covered with an aged-looking curtain with a midcentury modern geometric design in a very dull brown color. The stage wall, though once gold, has reverted to a dull brown color, so there is a lot of brown in the opera house. Also, keeping up with the theme of red carpet overload, the seats and the structures that hold the subtitles are also decked in the crimson-red carpet that the Met seems to love so much.

While I don't particularly like the design of the Met, I think it's a great example of late Modernism, as are the other original buildings in Lincoln Center.