Citizens Bank Opera House

Boston’s Citizens Bank Opera House offers visitors a wide variety of entertainment options, including Broadway musicals, world-class ballet performances, concerts and even esports. This storied theater is very popular with visitors to Boston, so it is crucial to book Citizens Bank Opera House parking ahead of time with BestParking. Opening right before the Great Depression, the venue was originally designed as a venue for showing movies and hosting vaudeville performances, but was soon only showing films. After a few name changes, two renovations and a brief period hosting the Opera Company of Boston, the venue was acquired and restored by Clear Channel in 2002 with the assistance of then-Mayor Thomas Menino. It reopened in 2004 with the Broadway version of Disney’s The Lion King and has since been the home of Broadway Across America in Boston. Other musicals that have been performed at the venue include Beauty and the Beast, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, Pippin, the Sound of Music, The Phantom of the Opera, The Book of Mormon, Les Misérables, Riverdance, Mamma Mia! and Motown: The Musical, among many others. Citizens Bank Opera House has been the exclusive performance venue for the Boston Ballet since 2009. Ballets that have been performed there include Cinderella, Jewels, Romeo and Juliet, Simply Sublime, Don Quixote, Balanchine/Robbins, Bella Figura, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The theater hosts the Boston Ballet’s The Nutcracker every year, which it has done since 2005. The third tenant organization at the theater is the Boston Uprising Overwatch esports team, which has held matches at the venue. Artists who have performed at the theater in the past include Paramore, Morrissey, Sarah McLachlan, Tori Amos, Ben Harper, and Green Day. With such a wide variety of performances to attend, it’s important to think ahead and book Citizens Bank Opera House parking in advance of the show with BestParking.