Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, in New York City, is the home for some of the nation’s most important cultural activities. The center consists of 11 resident organizations—the Metropolitan Opera; the New York Philharmonic; the Juilliard School; the New York City Ballet; the Film Society of Lincoln Center; the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center; the Lincoln Center Theater; the School of American Ballet; Jazz at Lincoln Center; the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts; and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc. The organizations are housed on 16.3 acres (6.6 hectares) in the borough of Manhattan.
Avery Fisher Hall (now called David Geffen Hall) opened in 1962, the New York State Theater (now called the David H. Koch Theater) in 1964, the Library and Museum of Performing Arts (now called the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts) and the Vivian Beaumont Theater in 1965, the Metropolitan Opera House in 1966, the Juilliard School and Alice Tully Hall in 1969, and the Samuel B. and David Rose Building in 1990. In 2004, Jazz at Lincoln Center moved into three performing spaces in the Frederick P. Rose Hall inside the Time Warner Center. Each of Lincoln Center’s constituent members is financially and artistically independent.
