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The Opera Royal can serve either as a theater for opera, stage plays, or orchestral events, when it can accommodate an audience of 712, or as a ballroom, when the floor of the orchestra level of the auditorium can be raised to the level of the stage. On these occasions, the Opera can accommodate 1,200.
Opened in 1856 is the oldest opera house in South America. 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.
In 1748, Louis XV began construction of a palace theatre, the Royal Opera of Versailles at the northernmost end of the palace, [85] [86] but completion was delayed until 1770; [86] [87] construction was interrupted in the 1740s by the War of the Austrian Succession and then again in 1756 with the start of the Seven Years' War.
Donaldson, Frances, The Royal Opera House in the Twentieth Century, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1988. 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.
For the next seven years, during the Régence of Philippe d'Orléans, the royal court of the young King Louis XV was the first in Paris, while the Regent governed from his Parisian residence, the Palais-Royal. Versailles was again the unofficial capital of France from June 1722, when Louis XV returned to Versailles, until October 1789, when a ...
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Royal Opera or Royal Opera House may refer to: . Khedivial Opera House, Cairo, Egypt; burnt down in 1971; Royal Swedish Opera, opera house and opera company in Sweden; L'Opéra of the Palace of Versailles or L'Opéra Royal de Versailles, France
If the Versailles mansion is completed, the 90,000-square-foot home will feature 10 kitchens, 30 bathrooms, a 7,200-square-foot ballroom big enough for 500 people, a roller skating rink, bowling ...