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List of opera houses

Opera house

This is a list of notable opera houses listed by continent, then by country with the name of the opera house and city. The opera company is sometimes named for clarity.

Africa

Sayed Darwish Theatre, Alexandria

Egypt

South Africa

Tunisia

  • Théâtre municipal de Tunis
  • Tunisia's City of Culture[1]

Morocco

Asia

Yerevan Opera House

Bangladesh

  • Hatirjheel Opera House, Dhaka

China

  • Century Theatre, Beijing
  • Guangzhou Beilei Theatre
  • Guangzhou Drama Arts Center – Theatre No.13
  • Guangzhou Friendship Theatre
  • Guangzhou Guanglian Hall
  • Guangzhou Huanghuagang Theatre
  • Guangzhou Jiangnan Theatre
  • Guangzhou Military Auditorium
  • Guangzhou Opera House
  • Guangzhou Rainbow Theatre
  • Guangzhou South Theatre
  • Hangzhou Grand Theatre, Hangzhou
  • Harbin Grand Theatre
  • National Centre for the Performing Arts
  • Oriental Opera Hall at the Shanghai Oriental Art Center, Shanghai
  • Poly Theatre, Beijing
  • Poly Theatre (People's Liberation Army Opera House), Beijing
  • Shanghai Grand Theatre, Shanghai
  • Shanghai Opera Theater, Shanghai
  • Zhengyici-xi-lou, Beijing Opera, Beijing
  • Ko Shan Theatre Theatre, Hong Kong
  • Ngau Chi Wan Civic Centre Theatre, Hong Kong
  • North District Town Hall Auditorium, Hong Kong
  • Sai Wab Ho Civic Centre Theatre, Hong Kong
  • Shatin Town Hall Auditorium, Hong Kong
  • Sheungwan Civic Centre Theatre, Hong Kong
  • Sunbeam Theatre, Hong Kong
  • Taipo Civic Centre Auditorium, Hong Kong
  • Tsuen Wan Town Hall Auditorium, Hong Kong
  • Tuen Mun Town Hall Auditorium, Hong Kong

India

Indonesia

  • Aula Simfonia Jakarta, Jakarta[2]
  • Jakarta Art Building, Jakarta
  • Taman Ismail Marzuki Theater Hall, Jakarta
  • Usmar Ismail Concert Hall, Jakarta

Iran

  • Vahdat Hall

Israel

  • Tel Aviv Performing Arts Center

Japan

  • Aichi Arts Centre, Nagoya
  • Biwako Hall, Ōtsu, Shiga
  • Bunkamura Orchard Hall, Tokyo
  • Kanagawa Kenmin Hall, Yokohama
  • New National Theatre, Tokyo (NNTT)
  • NHK Hall, Tokyo
  • Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, Tokyo
  • Yokosuka Arts Theatre, Yokosuka

Kazakhstan

Kuwait

  • Kuwait Opera House, Kuwait City

Malaysia

Mongolia

Oman

  • Royal Opera House, Muscat

Philippines

Singapore

  • Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay, Singapore
  • Victoria Theatre & Concert Hall, Singapore

Syria

  • Damascus Opera House

South Korea

Taiwan

Main entrance to the Ankara Opera House
  • National Taichung Theater
  • National Theater and Concert Hall, Taipei

Tajikistan

  • Aini Theater of Opera and Ballet, Dushanbe

Thailand

United Arab Emirates

  • Dubai Opera, Dubai

Uzbekistan

Vietnam

Europe

Vienna State Opera, Vienna
Opera and Ballet Theatre, Baku
La Monnaie, Brussels
Croatian National Theatre, Zagreb

Albania

  • Tirana Opera House, Tirana, Albania

Armenia

  • Yerevan Opera Theatre, Yerevan

Austria

Azerbaijan

  • Azerbaijan State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater, Baku

Belarus

  • National Opera and Ballet of Belarus, Minsk

Belgium

Bosnia and Herzegovina

  • National Theatre Opera and Ballet, Sarajevo

Bulgaria

Croatia

  • Croatian National Theatre, Osijek[4]
  • Croatian National Theatre, Rijeka[5]
  • Croatian National Theatre, Split[6]
  • Croatian National Theatre, Varaždin[7]
  • Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb, Zagreb[8]

Czech Republic

Copenhagen Opera House
See also: Opera houses in the Czech Republic

Denmark

  • The Copenhagen Opera House (Operaen), Copenhagen
  • Den Jyske Opera, Aarhus
  • Det Kongelige Teater (Royal Danish Theatre), Copenhagen
  • Funen Opera, Odense
  • Opera Hedeland, Hedehusene

Estonia

Finland

France

Palais Garnier, Paris

Georgia

Georgia's Tbilisi Opera

Germany

Bayreuth Festspielhaus
Semperoper, Dresden
Theater Duisburg (2009)
Badisches Staatstheater, Karlsruhe

Greece

Hungary

Hungarian State Opera House

Iceland

Ireland

Italy

La Scala, Milan
Interior: La Fenice, Venice, 1837
Teatro San Carlo, Naples: View from the royal box
Teatro Massimo, Palermo, biggest theater in Italy and third in Europe

Latvia

Latvian National Opera
  • Latvian National Opera (LNO, Latvijas Nacionālā Opera), Riga

Lithuania

  • Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre (Lietuvos nacionalinis operos ir baleto teatras), Vilnius
  • Kaunas State Musical Theatre (Kauno valstybinis muzikinis teatras), Kaunas
  • Klaipeda State Musical Theatre (Klaipėdos valstybinis muzikinis teatras), Klaipėda

Malta

Dutch National Opera & Ballet, Amsterdam

Moldova

Monaco

The new opera house, Oslo, Norway
Grand Theatre (Teatr Wielki), Warsaw (restored)

Netherlands

North Macedonia

  • National Opera and Ballet

Norway

Poland

Silesian Opera in Bytom
Wrocław Opera in Wrocław
  • Baltic State Opera, Gdańsk
  • Teratr Muzyczny w Gdynii, Gdynia
  • Court Opera in Łazienki complex, Warsaw
  • Forest Opera, Sopot
  • Grand Theatre, Łódź
  • Great Theatre, Poznań, Poznań
  • Kraków Chamber Opera, Kraków
  • Opera in the castle, Szczecin
  • Opera Krakowska, Kraków
  • Opera Nova, Bydgoszcz
  • Opera Podlaska, Białystok
  • Polish National Opera (Great Theatre), Warsaw
  • Silesian Opera, Bytom
  • Teatr Muzyczny w Lublinie, Lublin
  • Warsaw Chamber Opera, Warsaw
  • Wrocław Opera, Wrocław

Portugal

São Carlos main façade, Lisbon

Romania

Iaşi Romanian National Opera
  • Brașov Opera, Brașov[11]
  • Comic Opera House for Children, Bucharest[12]
  • Hungarian Opera, Cluj-Napoca
  • Lyric Theatre, Craiova[13]
  • Nae Leonard Musical Theatre, Galați[14]
  • National Opera and Ballet Theatre, Constanța[15]
  • National Operetta Theatre, Bucharest[16]
  • Romanian National Opera, Bucharest
  • Romanian National Opera, Cluj-Napoca
  • Romanian National Opera, Iași
  • Romanian National Opera, Timișoara

Russia

Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow
Mariinsky Theatre, Saint Petersburg
  • Astrakhan State Theatre of Opera and Ballet, Astrakhan[17]
  • Bashkir State Opera and Ballet Theatre, Ufa
  • Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow[18]
  • Buryat Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre, Ulan-Ude[19]
  • The Chelyabinsk state academic opera and ballet theatre of M.I.Glinka, Chelyabinsk[20]
  • Chuvash State Opera and Ballet Theater, Cheboksary
  • Ekaterinburg Opera and Ballet Theatre, Ekaterinburg[21]
  • Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Centre, Moscow[22]
  • Helikon Opera, Moscow[23]
  • Krasnoyarsk Opera and Ballet Theatre, Krasnoyarsk
  • Magnitogorsk Opera and Ballet Theatre, Magnitogorsk
  • Mariinsky Theatre, Saint Petersburg
  • Mikhaylovsky Theatre, Saint Petersburg
  • Moscow Operette Thearte, Moscow
  • Musa Calil Tatar State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre, Kazan[24]
  • Natalya Sats Musical Theater, Moscow
  • Novaya Opera Theatre, Moscow[25]
  • Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theatre, Novosibirsk[26]
  • Pokrovsky Moscow State Academic Chamber Musical Theatre, Moscow
  • Pushkin Nizhny Novgorod State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre, Nizhny Novgorod[27]
  • Pyotr Illytch Tchaikovsky Perm Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre, Perm
  • Republic Sakha – Yakutia State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre, Yakutsk
  • Rostov State Opera and Ballet, Rostov[28]
  • Samara State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre, Samara
  • Sapaev Mari State Opera and Ballet Theatre, Yoshkar-Ola[29]
  • Saratov Opera and Ballet Theater, Saratov
  • St Petersburg Chamber Opera, Saint Petersburg[30]
  • Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Musical Academic Theatre, Moscow[31]
  • State Theatre of Opera and Ballet of Udmurt Republic, Izhevsk[32]
  • Taganrog Theatre, Taganrog
  • Tsaritsynskaya opera, Volgograd
  • Voronezh State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre, Voronezh
  • Zazerkalie, Saint Petersburg

Serbia

Teatro Real, Madrid
Gothenburg Opera
Läckö Castle
Läckö Castle – venue of the Castle Opera

Slovakia

Slovenia

  • Ljubljana Opera House, Ljubljana, SNG Opera balet Maribor

Spain

Sweden

Switzerland

Turkey

  • Ankara Opera House, Ankara
  • Antalya State Opera and Ballet, Antalya
  • City Opera, Eskisehir Metropolitan Municipality, Eskisehir
  • İzmir State Opera and Ballet, Elhamra Palace, İzmir
  • Leyla Gencer Sahnesi, Ankara
  • Mersin Halkevi (Mersin State Opera and Ballet), Mersin
  • Operet Sahnesi, Ankara
  • Süreyya Opera House Kadıköy, Istanbul
Hanoi Opera House

Ukraine

Lviv Opera Theater

United Kingdom and Dependencies

England

Royal Opera House, London
Wales Millennium Centre
  • Opera House, Buxton
  • Coliseum Theatre, London
  • Garsington Opera, Buckinghamshire
  • Glyndebourne, East Sussex
  • Grand Opera House, York
  • Grange Park Opera, Horsley, Surrey
  • Lowry Centre, Salford
  • Opera House, Manchester
  • Opera House, Tunbridge Wells
  • Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London
  • Sadler's Wells (Sadler's Wells Theatre), London
  • Tyne Theatre & Opera House, Newcastle upon Tyne
  • Wakefield Opera House (became cinema 1920s), Wakefield

Northern Ireland

Scotland

Wales

Jersey

  • Jersey Opera House, Saint Helier, Jersey

North America

The Four Seasons Centre, Toronto
Great Theatre of Havana
Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City

Canada

Costa Rica

Cuba

Dominican Republic

El Salvador

Mexico

United States

The Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C., as seen from the Potomac River
War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco
Sarasota Opera House, March 2008, after complete interior and exterior renovation
Wortham Center, Houston, Texas

Oceania

The Sydney Opera House
Opera House, Wellington

Australia

New Zealand

South America

Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires
Teatro Amazonas, Manaus
Teatro de Cristobal Colón, Bogotá
Teatro Solís, Montevideo

Argentina

Bolivia

  • Casa Teatro, Santa Cruz
  • Teatro René Moreno, Santa Cruz

Brazil

Chile

  • Teatro Municipal, Santiago[47]

Colombia

  • Medellín Metropolitan Theatre, Medellín
  • Teatro de Cristobal Colón, Bogotá
  • Teatro Heredia Adolfo Mejía, Cartagena
  • Teatro Jorge Isaacs, Santiago de Cali
  • Teatro Mayor Julio Mario Santo Domingo, Bogotá
  • Teatro Municipal, Santiago de Cali

Peru

  • Teatro Manuel Ascencio Segura, Lima

Uruguay

Venezuela

Teatro Municipal de Valencia

See also

References

Notes

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  4. ^ "404 Stranica nije pronađena". www.hnk-osijek.htnet.hr.
  5. ^ "HNK Ivan pl. Zajc Rijeka".
  6. ^ "HNK Split > Naslovnica". www.hnk-split.hr.
  7. ^ "HNK Varaždin". www.hnkvz.hr.
  8. ^ "Hrvatsko narodno kazalište". HNK.
  9. ^ "londinoupolis: The Apollo Municipal Theatre in Ermoupolis, Siros". November 19, 2011.
  10. ^ "Icelandic opera official website in English". Archived from the original on 2009-05-03. Retrieved 2009-06-28.
  11. ^ "Opera Braşov". www.opera-brasov.ro.
  12. ^ "Opera Comica Pentru Copii". www.operacomica.ro.
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  21. ^ http://www.uralopera.ru/en/about.php
  22. ^ http://www.opera-centre.ru/centre
  23. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-11-14. Retrieved 2013-11-24.
  24. ^ http://www.kazan-opera.ru/en/about/history/
  25. ^ http://www.novayaopera.ru/en?page=theatre
  26. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2006-10-11. Retrieved 2006-11-19.
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  28. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-12-02. Retrieved 2013-11-24.
  29. ^ http://www.operaballet.net/en/
  30. ^ "Театр "Санктъ-Петербургъ Опера"". www.spbopera.ru.
  31. ^ "Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Music Theatre". stanmus.com.
  32. ^ "Главная | Театр оперы и балета УР". operaizh.ru.
  33. ^ "Дніпропетровський театр опери та балету". Театр опери і балету.
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  35. ^ "Domain For Sale". www.afternic.com. Archived from the original on October 8, 2007.
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  37. ^ Odessa State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre official website, in English Archived 2009-02-24 at the Wayback Machine
  38. ^ "San Diego Opera 2018-19 Season". San Diego Opera.
  39. ^ "Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) in New York City". Travel + Leisure. Retrieved February 7, 2015.
  40. ^ Howard Gilman Opera House in Brooklyn, NY – NY Daily News (Retrieved on June 21, 2009) Archived July 14, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  41. ^ "Moores School of Music list of opera performances, 2009/10". Archived from the original on June 20, 2009.
  42. ^ University of Houston facilities
  43. ^ Live, Auckland. "Home". Auckland Live.
  44. ^ "Oamaru Opera house website". Archived from the original on May 31, 2009.
  45. ^ "Buenos Aires Lírica". www.balirica.org.ar.
  46. ^ "Teatro El Circulo website showing 2009 performances of operas". Archived from the original on July 22, 2009.
  47. ^ "Teatro Municipal official website with opera offerings, 2009". Archived from the original on June 26, 2009.

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