Opera House [Blackpool]
type: Item
label: Teatro dell'Opera di Blackpool @it
description: Theatre building in Blackpool, United Kingdom
description: theater in het Verenigd Koninkrijk @nl
description: Edificio teatrale a Blackpool, Regno Unito @it
alternative label: Opera House
EUTA building identifier: 2306
Importance: Not rated
Type of information: Performance venue
Field: architecture
Country: United Kingdom
City: Blackpool
theatrEurope table: HST_0209
Wikidata source: Q7096599
context: The Winter Gardens is a vast entertainment complex containing a number of individual entertainment venues constructed between 1875 and 1939. The Pavilion was one of the first buildings to be constructed and was converted to a theatre by Thomas Mitchell in 1889. The present auditorium of 1896-97 is by Wylson & Long. The proscenium stage was blocked off in the 1980’s and converted to a restaurant, but the auditorium is still a most impressive space. It has a splendidly opulent music hall interior, with two balconies running round three sides and a richly decorated ceiling. Very little of Wylson & Long’s work has survived to the present day. The Blackpool Winter Gardens Pavilion survives as their most important monument. In 2017 Blackpool Council commissioned a Statement of Significance for the Pavilion and this has shown that the Pavilion is in fact one of the only remaining auditorium examples in the United Kingdom that exemplifies and spans the period of the end of music hall and the development of variety. As such it is of significant importance.
GPS: Point(-3.0509 53.8171)
opening date: 1889-01-01T00:00:00Z
Capacity: 2920
Web: opera house theatre.htm
architect: Frank Matcham
Theatres Trust Database ID: 1849
Source URL: OperaHouseBlackpool.htm
Wikidata instance: Q24354
Arthur Lloyd.co.uk page: BlackpoolTheatres/OperaHouseBlackpool.htm
Preservation state: extant building
Preservation state: Used as theatre today