Theatre Royal, Covent Garden [London, UK]
type: Item
Type of information: Performance venue
City: London
Wikidata source: Q67928095
opening date: 1732-01-01T00:00:00Z
closure date: 1808-01-01T00:00:00Z
Country: United Kingdom
GPS: Point(-0.1225 51.5131)
Field: architecture
EUTA building identifier: 383
Burnt down date: 1808-01-01T00:00:00Z
Burnt down date: 1808-09-20T00:00:00Z
Fires in Theatres id: 21
Table id: 102
Importance: Not rated
structure replaced by: Royal Opera House [London, UK]
Arthur Lloyd.co.uk page: RoyalOperaHouseCoventGarden.htm#first
Wikidata instance: Q19860854
Wikidata instance: Q153562
city section: Westminster
Carthalia ID: 4373
Modern Opera Houses ID: 22
Note: ii)
Note: Built 1732 by Edward Shepherd. Opened 7 December 1732. Destroyed by a fire on 20 Sep 1808. [1809 a new Theatre Royal Covent Garden was built on the site.]
Modern Opera Houses index: Stage: View of stage from auditorium, III. S. p. vi; General view, III. S. p. viii ; View of ‘cloths,’ III. S. p. 4 ; View of ‘gridiron,’ III. S. p. 5 ; View of ‘upper machinery,’ III. S. p. 5 ; Reference, III. p. 80.
Preservation state: extant building
Preservation state: Used as theatre today