Like much of ‘The Gilded Age,’ the conflict at the heart of the second season’s first episode was very much rooted in history. Here, find the real story behind the Metropolitan Opera House feud.
Fittingly, episode one of The Gilded Age ends with a party. Mrs. Russell invites the crème de la crème of New York to her Fifth Avenue mansion to discuss a cause of the utmost social importance: the building of a new opera house. Yet it’s not an event without its drama: Mrs. Astor, the de facto ringleader of the old guard, threatens to leave so as not to jeopardize her relationship with the Academy of Music, the city’s current opera house. But, Mrs. Russell reminds Mrs.
Harper’s found that in 1880 one socially aspirational individual offered to pay $30,000 for a box. Accounting for inflation, that would be around $1 million today. Soon, it became clear that the Academy of Music could not accommodate all the representatives of the two elements in fashionable society who, for one reason or another, wished to own or occupy the boxes that were the visible sign of wealth and social position.
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