The Royal Opera House
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Address
The Royal Opera House
Covent Garden
London WC2E 9DD
How to Get There
Nearest Tube Station: Covent Garden (Piccadilly line)
Nearest Train Station: Charing Cross
History
The present theatre was built in 1858. During World War II it was used as a dance
hall but after the war the decision was made to establish the Royal Opera House as the
permanent year-round home of the opera and ballet companies now known as the Royal Opera
and the Royal Ballet. The ballet company reopened the building on 20 February 1946 with
The Sleeping Beauty. The two companies combined for Purcell's The Fairy Queen that December,
and on 14 January 1947, Covent Garden Opera Company gave its first complete opera
performance, Bizet's Carmen.
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