Kraljevska opera u Londonu

Kraljevska opera u Londonu

Fasada Kraljevske opere, iza statue „Mladi igrač” Enca Plakote
Lokacija	Ulica Bau (Bow Street) London Ujedinjeno Kraljevstvo
Dezignacija	Stepen I
Tip	Zgrada opere
Maks. broj gledalaca	2.256
Konstrukcija
Otvoreno	1732.
Arhitekta	Edvard Šeperd (1728) Robert Smerk (1809) Edvard Midlton Beri (1858)
Veb-sajt
www.roh.org.uk

Kraljevska opera u Londonu (engl. Royal Opera House) je poznata operska i baletska kuća u Londonu. Nalazi se u četvrti Kovent Garden (engl. Covent Garden) u centralnom Londonu. Zgrada je nastala 1732. godine i u prvih sto godina je bila scena opšte namene (Theatre Royal). Dobila je ime Kovent Garden. Prvi balet je ovde prikazan 1734. Godinu dana kasnije prikazana je prva Hendlova opera, a kasnije i premijere mnogih njegovih opera i oratorijuma. Danas je Kovent Garden dom Kraljevske opere (The Royal Opera), Kraljevskog baleta (The Royal Ballet), i Orkestra kraljevske opere (Orchestra of the Royal Opera House).

Današnja građevina je treća po redu, posle požara iz 1808. i 1857. godine. Fasada, hodnik i dvorana su iz 1858, dok je većina ostalih prostora kreirana u rekonstrukciji 1990.

Slika prvobitnog pozorišta malo pre požara 1808.

Ilustracija auditorijuma pozorišta iz 1810, ubrzo posle otvaranja

The Theatre Royal, Kovent Garden 1820.

Literatura

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• Sheppard, F. H. W., ur. (1972). Survey of London, Volume XXXV: The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane and The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. London: Athlone Press. ISBN 0-485-48235-5. 
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• Earl, John and Sell, Michael Guide to British Theatres 1750–1950, pp. 136–8 (Theatres Trust, 2000) ISBN 0-7136-5688-3.
• Haltrecht, Montague, The Quiet Showman: Sir David Webster and the Royal Opera House, Collins, London, 1975.
• Isaacs, Jeremy, Never Mind the Moon, Bantam Press, 1999.
• Lebrecht, Norman, Covent Garden: The Untold Story: Dispatches from the English Culture War, 1945–2000, Northeastern University Press, 2001.
• Lord Drogheda, et al., The Covent Garden Album, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1981.
• Mosse, Kate, The House: Inside the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, BBC Books, London, 1995.
• Robinson, Terry F. National Theatre in Transition: The London Patent Theatre Fires of 1808–1809 and the Old Price Riots. BRANCH: Britain, Representation, and Nineteenth-Century History. Web. 29 March 2016.
• Tooley, John, In House: Covent Garden, Fifty Years of Opera and Ballet, Faber and Faber, London, 1999.
• Thubron, Colin (text) and Boursnell, Clive (photos), The Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Hamish Hamilton, London, 1982.

Spoljašnje veze

• Royal Opera House zvanični sajt
• Royal Opera House kolekcija kataloga i istorije izvođenja predstava Arhivirano na sajtu Wayback Machine (16. maj 2014)
• Projekat Royal Opera House
• The Royal Ballet School, zvanični sajt škole baleta Arhivirano na sajtu Wayback Machine (1. februar 2009)
• Arhiva istorije pozorišta