Riverbend Music Center

An outdoor amphitheatre on the banks of the Ohio River in Cincinnati, with a capacity of 20,500 across 6,000 reserved pavilion seats and 14,500 on the lawn. Designed by the architect Michael Graves and built for $9 million on 15 acres donated by the Coney Island amusement park, it opened in 1984 to give the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra an outdoor summer home; its first performance was Erich Kunzel and the Cincinnati Pops with Ella Fitzgerald on 4 July 1984. The orchestra still owns it, and it is booked by the orchestra's subsidiary MEMI in partnership with Live Nation.