Famous Las Vegas Strip venue is empty — who gets to fill it?

Saturday, January 4, 2025 10:57 AM
  • John Katsilometes, Las Vegas Review Journal

It’s dinner time, and also decision time, at the Cosmopolitan.

The resort’s superior culinary-entertainment destination Superfrico at the Cosmopolitan is an unqualified success. It’s also positioned next to an inventively designed and inconveniently empty Opium/OPM Theater. This venue is at the center of what seems to be a behind-the-scenes competition between Spiegelworld and Cirque du Soleil.

I swept into Superfrico on New Year’s Eve, also checking out the theater, which has been dark for a year since that Spiegelworld stage show “OPM” closed. Founded by Ross Mollison, Spiegelworld runs Superfrico in partnership with MGM Resorts International.

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MGM Resorts owns the theater, which abuts the restaurant.