THE ROYAL OPERA HOUSE

THE ROYAL OPERA HOUSE

The magnificent Royal Opera House is actually

the third theatre built on the Coven Garden site.

Both the previous theaters were destroyed by fire,

a serious hazard in the era before electricity.

 

Work on the third and present theatre started in

1857 to designs by E.M.Barry and the new building

opened in May 1858 with a performance of Meyerbeer’s

Les Huguenots

In 1892 the teatre was renamed the Royal Opera House.

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I was very glad to received the tickets for

the excellent performance

 

SWAN LAKE

of P.I.Tchaikovsky

The famous music was originally performed

with different choreography

and found little acclaim at its premiere in 1880.

It was really a great evening...

delete reply litocastro5 wrote on Apr 13, '11 what a great ballet performance & architecture of the building!Thanks for sharing this lovely post.

delete reply belita747 wrote on Apr 11, '11 How lucky you were, Viera! Anticipating the celebration of your birthday, Lol!

edit delete reply viera7 wrote on Apr 11, '11 Thank you for all your lovely comments... It was really a nice evening.... Actually it was an early gift for my oncoming birthday, because it was a last performance of Swan Lake this season...:-) Further performance is in the month September...

delete reply firefysh wrote on Apr 11, '11 I'm Jelous. :-) That is great, Viera. I love "Swan Lake", so to see it where you saw it would be truly excellent. :-)

delete reply yahudi1menuhin wrote on Apr 10, '11 tres interesting...

delete reply simplyregina wrote on Apr 10, '11 That is a really great ballet performance. One of my favourite. I saw it also in Moscow some years ago. Wish you a great time in London

delete reply mercianprincess wrote on Apr 10, '11 fantastic .a truely beautiful building and a very interesting post i would love the chance to go there one day :)