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An opera house is a building where operas are performed. The venues are usually constructed specifically with opera in mind, although other performing arts may be performed there.

Opera houses are listed by continent, then by country with the name of the opera house and city; the opera company is sometimes named for clarity.

Contents 1 Africa 1.1 Egypt 1.2 South Africa 2 Americas 2.1 Argentina 2.2 Brazil 2.3 Canada 2.4 El Salvador 2.5 Mexico 2.6 United States 3 Asia and Oceania 3.1 Australia 3.2 China 3.3 Japan 3.4 Singapore 3.5 Vietnam 4 Europe 4.1 Austria 4.2 Belgium 4.3 Czech Republic 4.4 Denmark 4.5 Finland 4.6 France 4.7 Germany 4.8 Greece 4.9 Hungary 4.10 Ireland 4.11 Italy 4.12 Monaco 4.13 Netherlands 4.14 Norway 4.15 Portugal 4.16 Russia 4.17 Serbia 4.18 Slovenia 4.19 Spain 4.20 Sweden 4.21 Switzerland 4.22 Ukraine 4.23 United Kingdom 5 References

Africa

Egypt

Cairo Opera House, Cairo
Khedivial Opera House (also known as the Royal Opera House, built 1868), Cairo (burned down in 1971)

South Africa

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

Americas

Argentina

• Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires

Brazil

• Teatro Amazonas, Manaus

Canada

Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier, a theatre of the Place des Arts, (Montréal Opera), Montréal, Quebec
Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts (Opening September 2006),(Canadian Opera Company), Toronto
Southam Hall, National Arts Centre, (Opera Lyra Ottawa), Ottawa, Ontario
Queen Elizabeth Theatre, (Vancouver Opera),Vancouver, British Columbia

El Salvador

• Teatro Nacional de El Salvador (National Theatre of El Salvador), San Salvador

Mexico

El Palacio de Bellas Artes, (Palace of Fine Arts), Mexico City
Teatro Aguascalientes, (Aguascalientes Theatre), Mexico

United States

Newberry Opera House

Academy of Music (Opera Company of Phildelphia), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Bass Performance Hall (Fort Worth Opera), Fort Worth, Texas
Benedum Center (Pittsburgh Opera), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Brown Theater, Wortham Theater Center (Houston Grand Opera), Houston, Texas
Civic Opera House (Lyric Opera of Chicago), Chicago, Illinois
Dorothy Chandler Pavilion (Los Angeles Opera), Los Angeles, California
Ellie Caulkins Opera House (Opera Colorado), Denver, Colorado
Harrison Opera House (Virginia Opera), Norfolk, Virginia
Grand Opera House, Dubuque, Iowa
Detroit Opera House (Michigan Opera Theater),Detroit, Michigan
Lyric Opera House (Baltimore Opera), Baltimore, Maryland
Marcus Center (Florentine Opera), Milwaukee, Wisconsin
McCaw Hall (Seattle Opera), Seattle, Washington
Metropolitan Opera House, New York, New York
Newberry Opera House (South Carolina Opera and Asheville Lyric Opera), Newberry, South Carolina
Opera House, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (Washington National Opera), Washington, D.C.
Taylor Opera House, Trenton, New Jersey
Santa Fe Opera Theatre, Santa Fe, New Mexico
War Memorial Opera House (San Francisco Opera), San Francisco
Woodstock Opera House, Woodstock, Illinois

The Grand Opera House, Dubuque, Iowa.

Asia and Oceania

Australia

State Theatre, The Arts Centre (aka Victorian Arts Centre), Melbourne
Sydney Opera House, Sydney

China

China National Grand Theatre, Beijing
Century Theatre, Beijing
Poly Theatre, Beijing
Shanghai Grand Theatre, Shanghai
Oriental Opera Hall at the Shanghai Oriental Art Center, Shanghai

Japan

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

Singapore

• Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay, Singapore

Vietnam

• Hanoi Opera House, Hanoi

Europe

Austria

Grosses Festspielhaus, Salzburg
Schönbrunn Schlosstheater, Vienna
Theater an der Wien, Vienna. Historic theatre associated with Mozart's time.
Volksoper Wien (Vienna People's Opera), Vienna
Wiener Staatsoper (Vienna State Opera), Vienna

Belgium

• Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie (De Munt), Brussels

Czech Republic

Národní Divadlo (National Theatre), Prague
Státní oper Praha (Prague State Opera), Prague
Stavovské divadlo (Estates Theatre), Prague

Denmark

• Operaen (The Copenhagen Opera House), Copenhagen

Finland

• Kansallisooppera (Finnish National Opera), Helsinki

France

Nouvel Opéra (Opéra national de Lyon), Lyon
Opéra de la Bastille, Paris
Opéra-Comique, Paris
Opera Garnier, Paris
Théatre du Châtelet, Paris

Germany

Bayreuth Festspielhaus (Bayreuth Festival Theatre), Bayreuth
Deutsche Oper am Rhein (German Opera of the Rhine), Düsseldorf
Deutsche Oper Berlin (Berlin German Opera), Berlin
Festspielhaus Baden-Baden (Baden-Baden Festival Theatre), Baden-Baden
Oper Frankfurt (Frankfurt Opera), Frankfurt
Hamburgische Staatsoper (Hamburg State Opera), Hamburg
Komische Oper Berlin, Berlin
Markgräfliches Opernhaus, Bayreuth
Nationaltheater, Mannheim
Nationaltheater (Bavarian State Opera), Munich
Oper Leipzig (Leipzig Opera), Leipzig
Opernhaus Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf
Opernhaus Halle, Halle
Opernhaus Kiel, Kiel
Prinzregententheater, Munich
Semperoper or Sächsische Staatsoper Dresden (Saxon State Opera), Dresden
Staatsoper Hannover, Hannover
Staatsoper Unter den Linden (Berlin State Opera), Berlin
Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz, Munich
Staatstheater Stuttgart, Stuttgart
Theater Duisburg, Duisburg

Greece

Greek National Opera, Athens
Athens Concert Hall, Athens

Hungary

Budapesti Operettszínház (Budapest Operetta Theatre), Budapest
Erkel Színház (Erkel Theatre), Budapest
Magyar Allami Operaház (Hungarian State Opera House), Budapest

Ireland

• Cork Opera House, Cork

Italy

La Scala

Sferisterio, Macerata
Teatro degli Arcimboldi, Milan
Teatro alla Scala, Milan
Teatro Argentina, Rome
Teatro Carignano, Turin
Teatro Carlo Felice, Genoa
Teatro Comunale, Bologna
Teatro Comunale, Ferrara
Teatro Comunale Giuseppe Verdi, Trieste
Teatro Comunale, Florence
Teatro Comunale, Modena
Teatro Dante Alighieri, Ravenna
Teatro della Pergola, Florence
Teatro Donizetti, Bergamo
Teatro La Fenice, Venice
Teatro Fraschini, Pavia
Teatro Francesco Cilea, Reggio Calabria
Teatro Giuseppe Verdi, Busseto
Teatro della Gran Guardia, Livorno
Teatro Grande, Brescia
Teatro Lirico, Cagliari
Teatro Malibran, Venice
Teatro Massimo Vittorio Emanuele, Palermo
Teatro Massimo Bellini, Catania
Teatro Municipale, Piacenza
Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Rome
Teatro Politeama, Lecce
Teatro Ponchielli, Cremona
Teatro Regio di Parma, Parma
Teatro Regio Torino, Turin
Teatro di San Carlo, Naples
Teatro Valli, Reggio Emilia
Arena di Verona, Verona

Monaco

• Opéra de Monte-Carlo, Monte-Carlo, Monaco

Netherlands

• Muziektheater (The Netherlands Opera), Amsterdam

Norway

Den Norske Opera (Norwegian National Opera), Oslo
Operaen i Kristiansund

Portugal

• Teatro Nacional de São Carlos, Lisbon

Russia

Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow
Mariinsky Theatre, Saint Petersburg

Serbia

Srpsko narodno pozorište (Serbian National Theatre), Novi Sad
Narodno pozorište u Beogradu (National Theatre of Belgrade), Belgrade

Slovenia

Slovensko narodno gledalisce, (Slovenian National Theatre) Ljubljana
Slovensko narodno gledalisce, (Slovenian National Theatre) Maribor

Spain

Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona
Palau de les Arts, Valencia
Palacio de la Ópera, A Coruña
Teatro Campoamor, Oviedo
Teatro de la Maestranza, Seville
Teatro de la Zarzuela, Madrid
Teatro Real, Madrid

Sweden

Drottningholms Slottsteater (Drottningholm Palace Theatre), Drottningholm
GöteborgsOperan (Gotherburg Opera), Gothenburg
Kungliga Operan (Royal Swedish Opera), Stockholm
Malmö Opera och Musikteater (Malmo Opera and Music Theatre), Malmo
Norrland Opera, Norrland

Switzerland

Grande Théâtre de Genève, Geneva
Opernhaus Zürich, Zurich

Ukraine

Kiev Opera, Kiev
Lviv Opera, Lviv
Odesa Opera, Odesa
Dnipropetrovsk Opera, Dnipropetrovsk
Kharkiv Opera, Kharkiv
Donetsk Opera, Donetsk

United Kingdom

The Floral Hall of the Royal Opera House

Buxton Opera House (Buxton Festival), Buxton
Canolfan Mileniwm Cymru (Wales Millennium Centre), Cardiff
Coliseum Theatre (English National Opera), London
Festival Theatre, Edinburgh
Garsington Manor (Garsington Opera), Garsington
Glyndebourne (Glyndebourne Opera Festival), East Sussex
Grand Theatre (Opera North), Leeds
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London
Sadler's Wells Theatre, London
Theatre Royal, Glasgow, Glasgow

References

• Allison, John (ed.), Great Opera Houses of the World, supplement to Opera Magazine, London 2003
• Beauvert, Thierry, Opera Houses of the World, The Vendome Press, New York, 1995. [ISBN 0-86565-978-8]
• Zeitz, Karyl Lynn, Opera: the Guide to Western Europe's Great Houses, Santa Fe, New Mexico: John Muir Publications, 1991. [ISBN 0-945-465-81-5]
• Zeitz, Karyl Lynn, Italian Opera Houses and Festivals, Lanham, Maryland: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2005 [ISBN 0-8108-5359-0]