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Opera house

An opera house is a building where opera and other forms of performing arts are performed.

Famous opera houses include:

Argentina

• Colón Theater, Buenos Aires

Australia

• Sydney Opera House, Sydney

Austria

• Vienna State Opera

Belgium

• La Monnaie (De Munt), Brussels

China

• Shanghai Grand Theater, Shanghai
• Zheng Yici Peking Opera Theatre, Beijing

Croatia

• Vatroslav Lisinski, Zagreb
• Ivan Zajc, Rijeka

Czech Republic

• National Theatre, Prague
• Prague State Opera, Prague
• Theatre of the Estates, Prague

Finland

• Finnish National Opera (In Finnish: Kansallisooppera), Helsinki

France

• Opera Bastille, Paris
• Opera Garnier, Paris
• Opéra-Comique, Paris
• Opéra National de Lyon

Germany

• Bayreuth Festspielhaus
• Hamburg State Opera
• Berlin State Opera
• Komische Oper Berlin
• Bavarian State Opera
• Semper Oper (Dresden)
• Oper Leipzig
• Oper Frankfurt
• Staatsoper Hannover

Japan

• Tokyo Kokuritsu Gekijou, New Opera Theatre, Tokyo

Italy

• La Fenice, Venice
• La Scala, Milan
• San Carlo, Naples
• Teatro Comunale of Bologna
• Teatro Regio Parma
• Teatro Regio Torino
• Verona Arena

Mexico

• Palacio de las Bellas Artes, Mexico City

Monaco

• Opéra de Monte-Carlo

Portugal

• Teatro Nacional São Carlos

Russia

• Mariinski, St Petersburg
• Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow

Spain

• Liceu, Barcelona

Sweden

• Royal Swedish Opera
• Gothenburg Opera
• Malmö Opera and Music Theatre
• Norrland Opera
• Drottningholm Palace Theatre

The Netherlands

• De Nederlandse Opera, Amsterdam

United Kingdom

• Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London
• English National Opera, London
• Glyndebourne, East Sussex
• Scottish Opera
• Welsh National Opera

United States

• Baltimore Opera
• Boston Lyric Opera
• Dallas Opera
• Fulton Opera House, (Lancaster, Pennsylvania)
• Houston Grand Opera
• Lyric Opera of Chicago
• Opera Boston
• Metropolitan Opera, (New York)
• New York City Opera
• San Francisco Opera
• Santa Fe Opera
• Washington Opera

See also: Theatre