Notable Firsts and Significant Events
Jay-Z opened Barclays Center by performing in a series of concerts. The eight concerts were held September 28-October 6, 2012. Each show was sold out by the end of the day that tickets went on sale, which was on July 12, 2012.
Barbra Streisand returned to her hometown of Brooklyn to perform twice at the arena on October 11 and October 13, 2012.
The first NBA basketball game played at the new arena was an NBA preseason game between the Brooklyn Nets and the Washington Wizards on October 15, 2012.
Oscar De La Hoya's Golden Boy Promotions brought boxing to Barclays Center on October 20, 2012 when Devon Alexander won the welterweight title against previous welterweight titleholder Randall Bailey.
Trance event Sensation America took place at the venue on October 26-27, 2012.
On November 3, 2012, the Brooklyn Nets beat the Toronto Raptors 107-100 in their first regular season home game.
The Atlantic 10 Conference has announced that Barclays Center will be the new home of the conference's men's basketball tournament beginning in 2013.
On November 14, 2012 The Who played their first concert in New York since 2008 on their Quadrophenia and More Tour.
WWE will be hosting their TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs pay-per-view at the venue on December 16, 2012. The pay-per-view event will also be the first WWE show to take place at the arena.
British band Coldplay is set to perform at the venue on December 30, 2012 as part of their Mylo Xyloto Tour.
Coldplay and Jay-Z are set to co-headline a special New Year's Eve concert at the venue on December 31, 2012, marking Coldplay's first show in NYC since September 2005. It will be the second time in two years that Coldplay has celebrated the new year with long-term friend and collaborator Jay-Z, the band having shared the bill with him at a Las Vegas concert in 2010.
Swedish House Mafia will perform at the arena as part of their One Last Tour on March 2-4, 2013.
Lady Gaga is due to perform at the arena during her Born This Way Ball tour on March 6-7, 2013. Rihanna is also set to perform during her Diamonds World Tour on May 4-5, 2013.
Read more about this topic: Barclays Center
Famous quotes containing the words notable, significant and/or events:
“a notable prince that was called King John;
And he ruled England with main and with might,
For he did great wrong, and maintained little right.”
—Unknown. King John and the Abbot of Canterbury (l. 2–4)
“Silence accompanies the most significant expressions of happiness and unhappiness: those in love understand one another best when silent, while the most heated and impassioned speech at a graveside touches only outsiders, but seems cold and inconsequential to the widow and children of the deceased.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)
“As I look at the human story I see two stories. They run parallel and never meet. One is of people who live, as they can or must, the events that arrive; the other is of people who live, as they intend, the events they create.”
—Margaret Anderson (1886–1973)