With no customers to keep them afloat, buildings designed to seat thousands, like the Metropolitan Opera House in Philadelphia and the Paramount Theater in Brooklyn, were abandoned. Read more ...

Most would find it surprising that The Metropolitan Opera Management sued to have their own opera house razed, but that is exactly what happened in the mid-1960s. The Metropolitan Opera ...

Plans to cap how often the Sydney Opera House sails are lit up have been abandoned. The plan would have restricted the number of projections to no more than 14 occasions a year across 44 nights.