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Classical Music, Opera and Ballet
Temples erected to classical culture which are opening up to modernity
Over their many years of life they have been bombed, burned down and subject to all kinds of mishap. But opera houses stand proud as temples of the most classical culture, without turning their backs on new artists.... Read more [+]
The Best of Classical music, Opera and Ballet
Metropolitan Opera House (New York), the benchmarkThe building of the New York Metropolitan has the honour of being the most popular of its kind, and, catering for an audience of 4,000, it is also the biggest. Though it is currently located in the Lincoln Center, when the company was set up back in 1883 it was on 39th Street. The old building burned down, and despite being remodelled, it was demolished in 1967. A year earlier the company had already moved to its current site, which heads this ranking drawn up by Worldguide.
Vienna State Opera (Vienna), a victim of the warThis huge building was inaugurated in 1869 with Mozart’s Don Giovanni, but it was half-destroyed by bombs in the Second World War. A centre of Viennese culture, it can house up to 2,200 people.
Royal Opera House Covent Garden (London), in the heart of West EndFollowing two fires, the current building located in London’s West End was built in 1856. It is the chief opera house in the United Kingdom and is fully accessible.
