The Bayreuth Festspielhaus or Bayreuth Festival Theatre is an opera house north of Bayreuth, Germany, built by the 19th-century German composer Richard Wagner and dedicated solely to the performance of his stage works. It is the venue for the annual Bayreuth Festival, for which it was specifically conceived and built. Its official name is Richard-Wagner-Festspielhaus. It is the home of the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra.
The Cape Town Opera House is a venue in Cape Town built in 1893, and at the time considered the finest theatre in the Southern Hemisphere.
The venue is also known as the Opera House, Cape Town.
The building was designed by G. M. Alexander, F.R.I.B.A., and built on the site of the present day main Post Office by W. Kitch for £40 000. The secretary for the Grand Parade Building Co. was E. R. Syfret, St George's Street.
Evans Opera House, Anaconda, MT
Kilgore Hall continued to be the home of the mainstream, more respectable theatre, even after it changed hands In 1869.
The Great Falls Grand Opera House was built in 1891 and was dubbed Montana’s most beautiful playhouse. In its lifetime it saw hundreds of play troupes, lecturers, and entertainers. It was the shining pride of the city. Unfortunately, like all things that shine, it began to dull as movies rose in popularity and road shows declined. The Grand Opera House struggled to keep its doors open, and in 1955 it was torn down. The sophisticated dream of an opera house seems to have started with a Mr. John Maguire and prompting from the Great Falls Tribune.
Maguire’s Opera House, Butte, Montana
When Mark Twain came to Butte in the summer of 1895, one of five cities in Montana he visited, his international fame came before him. His August 1 performance at Maguire’s Opera House on Broadway, where the Leggatt Hotel now stands, was to a receptive audience that more than filled the opera house’s 1,100 seats. Twain himself enjoyed the audience, surprised “to find this London-Parisian-New York audience out in the mines."
Metropolitan Opera House, Minneapolis
The Masons acquired this former opera house in 1912. Built by John Ming in 1880 and renowned throughout the Pacific Northwest, the theater hosted such famous performers as Otis Skinner, Eddie Foy, Marie Dressler, and Katie Putnam. In 1915, noted Helena architects George Carsley and C. S. Haire redesigned the building in the exotic Egyptian Revival style. Under the Mason’s care, the original handpainted 1880s scenery remains in occasional use, as does the spectacular $10,000 pipe organ they installed in the remodeled auditorium in 1915.
The Olympia Opera House (or Olympia Theater) was built in 1890 by Washington Standard publisher John Miller Murphy and featured the latest developments in theater construction. The theater had electric lighting, a seating capacity of 1,000, and several lounges and refreshment opportunities. At the time it was built, it was adjacent to the Swantown Slough and the foot of Budd Bay .... , the trolley went by the opera house, providing easy access for local citizens as well as visiting legislators and lobbyists.
In 1890, the town decided that a new opera house was needed and Thomas H. Bjoin stepped up to make it happen. Bjoin was a former alderman who worked in the livery and machinery business. He decided to erect a building the size of a full block on South Main Street.
Abbott's Opera House (Auckland, N.Z.), Fullers' Opera House (Auckland, N.Z.)
Built in 1882, and first opened on 23 May 1882. In 1897 had a number of alterations. The entrances to the stalls and dress circle were on Wellesley Street, and the principal stage entrances on Elliot Street. Belonged to the estate of Mr H N Abbott. Leased by John Fuller. Held first screening of motion pictures in New Zealand. Destroyed by fire on 3 Dec 1926. Smith & Caughey's building later erected on the same site.
Confusingly there was another Opera House built at the same time, the Imperial Opera House on Pender Street – and there was also Hart’s Opera House on Carrall Street, the oldest of the three, but that was described as a ‘glorified shed’ with burlap walls and doubled as a roller rink – the CPR’s was easily the classiest.