Atlanta Opera enters a new chapter, moving into the 4,600-seat Atlanta Civic Center. “The generically functional auditorium was built in the late ’60s to accommodate annual visits from New York’s Metropolitan Opera, which, for most of the 20th century, was the highlight of affluent Atlanta’s summer social calendar. It was only after the center’s final Met performance – Verdi’s “La Traviata” in May 1986 – that Atlantans, and the city’s business community, were ready to support a local opera company.”