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Royal Opera House
The Royal Opera House is an opera house and performing arts venue in London. It is also sometimes referred to as "Covent Garden" after the London neighbourhood in which it is located. The building serves as the home of the Royal Opera, the Royal Ballet and the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House.
The current edifice is the third theatre on the site. The façade, foyer and auditorium date from 1858, but almost every other element of the present complex dates from a reconstruction in the 1990s. The Royal Opera House seats 2,268 people and consists of four tiers of boxes and balconies and the Amphitheatre gallery.
The Royal Opera is the only British opera company which regularly features the world's most famous opera singers. It performs operas in their original language and relies on guest artists to play the principal roles in all performances. In October 1968, the Queen granted the company the right to be called "The Royal Opera" which, "was a fitting tribute to a company which, from modest beginnings in 1947, had in the course of two decades achieved international status and acclaim.” -John Tooley.
The Royal Ballet is the leading ballet company in the United Kingdom. It was founded by Dame Ninette de Valois in 1931 and was granted the title of “the Royal Ballet” in 1957. It is now a very diverse company with dancers from all over the world.
The Royal Opera shares the "Orchestra of the Royal Opera House", which is a permanent orchestra of full symphony orchestra size, with the Royal Ballet. It has its own permanent chorus with over forty five singers: the Royal Opera Chorus.
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