The current center of the art scene, which serves as the home of the Royal Opera and the Royal Ballet and Orchestra of the Royal is actually the third building of its kind on this site in the center of London, popularly known as Covent Garden name. The neighborhood is also home to a variety of upscale shops in an outdoor market. The first performance will take place on this site to take a ballet, was held in 1734. The composer GF Handel, a season of operas and oratorios in the following year. The first building was finally destroyed in 1808 by a fire and another fire in 1857 cleared his successor. The present building has a facade, an auditorium and the foyer of the third reconstruction [1858], but was the rest of the building in detail in the last decade of the twentieth Century renovated.
Handel’s presence in London at the request of King George II monarchy was a patron of the composer back in Germany before his ascension to the British throne, that of the public the opportunity to first, most will be delivered to hear his operas. Among the operas that were first at the Royal Opera House in his first year as music director of Alcina, Ariodante and Atalanta, the more his oratorio Messiah. Besides the opera also has an important place for ballet, theater dramas, mimes and actors, usually carried out by clowns. During the 1800s a number of European composers, such notables as Rossini, Verdi and Puccini, who came to London to oversee the production of the first British opera.
The name “Royal Opera House does not incur the building until 1892. It was strictly defined winter and summer for the opera, and during the dark months, the theater has been inactive or has been hired for the dance, conferences, etc.. The British Government requisitioned the Hall during the First World War as a storage room and the Second World War, when he commissioned a dance hall. was restored after the war, the opera house to its original function was the first production of the post-war period [1946], the ballet Sleeping Beauty, with Margot Fonteyn. The following year, the resident company presents its first production of Bizet’s opera Carmen.
Desperately needs a facelift, management took advantage of the new national lottery and promised a portion of his winnings to pay art use programs throughout the United Kingdom almost a third of the cost of reconstruction of the Royal Opera House, nearly £ 60 million to 178 million pounds The project has been used from that source. The remaining funds from donations come from businesses, individuals and government grants. The reconstruction process has modern facilities for the samples, added a high school auditorium (Linbury Studio Theatre) offer a nice setting for smaller productions , and a full public areas, food and drink included rewriting. The current Royal Opera House has 2268 seats in its auditorium, seating configured ground floor and four levels of boxes and balconies.
