Glimmerglass Opera's Alice Busch Opera Theater, which opened in June 1987, was built on 43 acres (17 ha) of farmland donated by the late Tom Goodyear, the first chairman. The 900-seat theater is notable for its pastoral setting, for being the first American opera house built since 1966, and for its sliding walls, closed only while singers are on-stage and in foul weather.
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