Covent Garden Theatre
About Covent Garden Theatre
The Royal Opera House (ROH) is a theatre in Covent Garden, central London. The building is often referred to as simply Covent Garden, after a previous use of the site. The ROH is the main home of The Royal Opera, The Royal Ballet, and the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, which are known collectively as the Royal Ballet and Opera.
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One of the most famous theatre riots was in 1809 — the Covent Garden Theatre riots. The Covent Garden Theatre had been burned down and they thought, well, use this as an excuse to rebuild it and put up prices. They also rebuilt it so that if you were in the upper tiers, you could only see the legs of the people on stage.
from No Such Thing As A Man In A Wine Bottle, 2019-03-29 at 00:06:51 · read transcript
Other times Covent Garden Theatre came up
He was the conductor at the Covent Garden Opera House, and when he first came here, because obviously we're in Covent Garden at the moment, there was like a clique in Covent Garden that really, really hated him, because they didn't like when new musical directors came in. They really hated it. When he first arrived, people threw rotten vegetables at him in the street, and his car was vandalised outside Covent Garden Theatre, with the word Salty must go, scratched into his paintwork. Wow, that doesn't sound like the actions of opera fans.
425: No Such Thing As The Ken Ages, 2022-05-06 · listen
When he first came here, because obviously we're in Covent Garden at the moment, there was like a clique in Covent Garden that really, really hated him. because they didn't like when new musical directors came in. They really hated it. So when he first arrived, people threw rotten vegetables at him in the street. His car was vandalized outside Covent Garden Theatre with the word salty must go scratched into his paintwork. Wow, that doesn't sound like the actions of opera fans. It's just cliques, isn't it?
No Such Thing As The Ken Ages, 2022-05-06 · listen
Absolutely right. You also had these two main theatres, the jury lane theatre and the Covent Garden Theatre and you would quite often see people mounting the same play at the same time to see who was the better who's better Richard the third, who would be the better Hamlet. So, yeah, it was a very much a way of keeping in check who the new kids on the block were.
No Such Thing As 'Of Quails and Men', 2020-04-24 · listen
Is that right? Absolutely right. You also had these two main theatres, the Jury Lane Theatre and the Covent Garden Theatre. You would quite often see people mounting the same play at the same time to see who was the better, who is who's better, Richard III, who would be the better, Hamlet. So, yeah, it was a very much way of keeping in check who the new kids on the block were.
318: No Such Thing As 'Of Quails and Men', 2020-04-24 · listen
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