The media suite will also make it easier for City Ballet to make video of its performances available online.
"The opera was never a driving force behind the media suite," said Risa B. Heller, a spokeswoman for the opera.
"The media suite at the David H. Koch Theater was a critical investment for the future of New York City Ballet".
The San Francisco Opera recently installed an in-house media suite allowing state-of-the-art recording of every performance.
The Cleveland Indians have a designated social media suite at Progressive Field, and the team president, Mark Shapiro, has stopped by to visit with fans and answer questions.
His first donation enabled the University to build the department's media suite, named for his father- in-law, Naylor Stone, whom he greatly admired.
Facilities include HD TV studios, radio broadcast studios, a living lab research facility, media suite, digital media and performance lab, post-production facilities, editing facilities, meeting pods and dubbing theatres.
But it will be produced by Live From Lincoln Center, a separate entity, which will use a media trailer outside the theater, not the media suite, as it always has for its presentations.
As they made their way to the changing rooms the Blackburn players wore the same wide-eyed expressions as the schoolkids on a tour of the Etihad media suite.
In City Ballet's case the media suite's potential to expand the company's audience and income through HD broadcasts and other products was a crucial selling point for its board.
