The Royal Opera House, London - stunning interior of the Royal Opera House (ROH) in London. Let's visit the city of London and let's go inside the Royal Opera House (ROH) which is an opera house and major performing arts venue in Covent Garden, central London. The Royal Opera House (ROH) is the home of The Royal Opera, The Royal Ballet, and the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House. The first theatre at the Royal Opera House (ROH) site, the Theatre Royal (1732), served primarily as a playhouse for the first hundred years of its history. In 1734, the first ballet was presented. A year later, the first season of operas, by George Frideric Handel, began.
The Royal Opera House (ROH), under the direction of Antonio Pappano, is one of the world’s leading opera companies. Based in the iconic Covent Garden theatre, it is renowned both for its outstanding performances of traditional opera and for commissioning new works by today’s leading opera composers.
The current building of the Royal Opera House is the third theatre on the site, following disastrous fires in 1808 and 1856 to previous buildings. The façade, foyer, and auditorium date from 1858, but almost every other element of the present complex dates from an extensive reconstruction in the 1990s. The main auditorium seats 2,256 people, making it the third largest in London, and consists of four tiers of boxes and balconies and the amphitheatre gallery.

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