Culture type
The Collector
Thirty-one down, nine to go.
You keep a list, you are honest about it and you are further through it than most people who pretend not to have one. The point is not the ticking, it is that the list makes you go to cities you would otherwise skip.
Your evening
Whichever of the great rooms you have not yet stood in, however inconvenient the date.
Your room
If you only book one thing this year, make it Royal Albert Hall in London: a Victorian rotunda for five thousand, and eight weeks each summer of the world's largest classical festival.
Your cities
Three cities for this type
Your rooms
Five bookings for this type
Concert hallStanding roomLondon · South Kensington
Royal Albert Hall
A Victorian rotunda for five thousand, and eight weeks each summer of the world's largest classical festival
Opera houseBook aheadNew York · Lincoln Center
Metropolitan Opera
The largest repertory opera house in the world, with Chagall murals behind a glass front
TheatreIconTokyo · Ginza
Kabuki-za
Four hundred years of stagecraft, and a ticket for one act sold at the door
MuseumIconNew York · Upper East Side
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Five thousand years on Fifth Avenue, and a roof garden above the park
Live roomIconNew York · Greenwich Village
Village Vanguard
A wedge-shaped basement that has recorded more famous live albums than any room on earth