List of opera houses

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

  • Artscape Opera House (Cape Town Opera Company), Cape Town
  • Johannesburg Civic Theatre
  • Pretoria State Theatre

Asia

Yerevan Opera House
The National Centre for the Performing Arts with the Great Hall of the People in the background

Armenia

Azerbaijan

China

  • Century Theatre, Beijing
  • China National Grand Theatre
  • Guangzhou Friendship Theatre
  • Guangzhou Xinghai Concert Hall
  • Guangzhou Beilei Theatre
  • Guangzhou Military Auditorium
  • Guangzhou Huanghuagang Theatre
  • Guangzhou Guanglian Hall
  • Theatre No.13 of Guangzhou Drama Arts Center
  • Guangzhou South Theatre
  • Guangzhou Jiangnan Theatre
  • Guangzhou Rainbow Theatre
  • Guangzhou Opera House
  • Hangzhou Grand Theatre, Hangzhou
  • Harbin Opera Theatre, Harbin
  • Oriental Opera Hall at the Shanghai Oriental Art Center, Shanghai
  • Shanghai Grand Theatre, Shanghai
  • Oriental Opera Hall at the Shanghai Oriental Art Center, Shanghai
  • Poly Theatre (Beijing), Beijing
  • Poly Theatre (Beijing) (People's Liberation Army Opera House), Beijing
  • Zhengyici-xi-lou, Beijing Opera, Beijing

Hong Kong

Shatin Town Hall
  • Theatre, Ko Shan Theatre
  • Theatre Ngau Chi Wan Civic Centre
  • Auditorium North District Town Hall
  • Theatre, Sai Wab Ho Civic Centre
  • Auditorium, Shatin Town Hall
  • Theatre, Sheungwan Civic Centre
  • Sunbeam Theatre
  • Auditorium Taipo Civic Centre
  • Auditorium Tuen Mun Town Hall
  • Auditorium Tsuen Wan Town Hall

Georgia

Georgia's Tbilisi Opera

India

Indonesia

Palace of Culture (Istana Budaya), Kuala Lumpur

Israel

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

Malaysia

Mongolia

Oman

Philippines

Singapore

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

South Korea

Taiwan

Main entrance to the Ankara Opera House

Thailand

Turkey

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

Uzbekistan

Vietnam

Europe

Vienna Staatsoper at night
Opera/Ballet Theatre, Baku
La Monnaie, Brussels

Albania

Austria

Belgium

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bulgaria

Croatia

Czech Republic

Copenhagen Opera House
  • National Theatre (Prague) (Národní Divadlo), Prague
  • The State Opera (Prague) (Státní opera), Prague
  • Theatre of the Estates (Stavovské divadlo or Estates Theatre), Prague

Denmark

  • The Copenhagen Opera House (Operaen), Copenhagen
  • Det Kongelige Teater (Royal Danish Theatre), Copenhagen

Estonia

Finland

  • Aleksanterin Teatteri, Helsinki
  • Kansallisooppera, Helsinki

France

Palais Garnier, Paris
Opéra Nouvel, Lyons

Germany

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

Lithuania

Malta

Macedonia

Dutch National Opera & Ballet, Amsterdam

Moldova

Monaco

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

Netherlands

Norway

Poland

Portugal

São Carlos main façade, Lisbon

Romania

Iaşi Romanian National Opera

Russia

Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow
Mariinsky Theatre, Saint Petersburg

Serbia

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

Slovakia

Spain

Sweden

Switzerland

Ukraine

United Kingdom

England

Royal Opera House, London
Wales Millennium Centre

Northern Ireland

Scotland

Wales

North America

The Four Seasons Centre, from University Avenue and Queen Street
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

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

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

Brazil

Chile

Colombia

Peru

Uruguay

Venezuela

See also

References

Notes

  1. Croatian National Theatre, Osijek website
  2. Croatian National Theatre, Rijeka website
  3. Croatian National Theatre, Split website
  4. Croatian National Theatre, Varaždin website
  5. Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb. Per website: "The Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb" seems to be its official name in English and whatever other language they speak
  6. Icelandic opera official website in English
  7. Macedonian Opera and Ballet company
  8. Comic Opera House for Children, Bucharest official website
  9. Galaţi Musical Theatre, official website
  10. Romanian National Opera, Iaşi official website
  11. Craiova Lyric Theatre official website
  12. National Operetta Theatre, Bucharest official website
  13. Opera and Ballet Theatre, Constanţa official website
  14. Opera Braşov, Braşov official website
  15. Romanian National Opera, Timișoara official website
  16. http://www.bolshoi.ru/en/partners/sovet/
  17. http://www.uralopera.ru/en/about.php
  18. http://helikon.ru/eng_default.php
  19. http://www.kazan-opera.ru/en/about/history/
  20. http://www.novayaopera.ru/en?page=theatre
  21. http://www.opera-novosibirsk.ru/index.php?locale=en_us
  22. http://www.operann.ru/
  23. http://stanmus.com/
  24. http://www.chelopera.ru/
  25. http://www.operaballet.net/en/
  26. http://www.buryatia.ru/buryatia/culture/index_e.html
  27. http://www.spbopera.ru/en/
  28. http://www.rostovopera.ru/about.html
  29. http://www.opera-centre.ru/centre
  30. http://www.operaizh.ru/
  31. http://astoperahouse.ru/en/
  32. Dnipropetrovsk Opera officla website, in Russian
  33. Donetsk Opera listed on Operabase.com
  34. Kharkiv Opera official website, in Russian
  35. Lviv National Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet officla website, in English
  36. Odessa State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre official website, in English
  37. "Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) in New York City". Travel + Leisure. Retrieved February 7, 2015.
  38. Howard Gilman Opera House in Brooklyn, NY - NY Daily News (Retrieved on June 21, 2009)
  39. Moores School of Music list of opera performances, 2009/10
  40. University of Houston facilities
  41. Oamaru Opera house website
  42. Teatro Avenida's official website showing 2009 performances
  43. Teatro El Circulo website showing 2009 performances of operas
  44. Teatro Municipal official website with opera offerings, 2009

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