1793 – Teatro Nacional de Sà£o Carlos, Lisbon
Architect: José da Costa e Silva
The Teatro Nacional de Sà£o Carlos is Lisbon’s opera house and was opened in 1793 by Queen Maria I as a replacement for the Tejo Opera House,
1855 – Cork Opera House (The Athenaeum), Cork
Architect: Sir John Benson / C.J. Phipps
The building,
1863 – Opera House, Valletta, Malta
Architect: Edward Middleton Barry
“The new Opera House at Malta is one of several important public works for the embellishment and improvement of the island which have marked the rule of the present governor,
1875 – Théâtre National de l’Opéra, Paris
Architect: Charles Garnier
This is the thirteenth building to house the Paris Opera since the Opera was founded in 1669.
1876 – Proposal for New National Opera House, Thames Embankment, London
Architect: F.H. Fowler
Now the site of the New Scotland Yard buildings by Richard Norman Shaw.
1878 – Grand Theatre & Opera House, Leeds, Yorkshire
Architect: George Corson
As published in The Building News,
1880 – Alte Oper, Frankfurt, Germany
Architect: Richard Lucae
Opened by Kaiser Wilhelm I in 1880,
1883 – Old Metropolitan Opera House, New York, USA
Architect: J. Cleaveland Cady / Carrere & Hastings
The Old Metropolitan Opera House was built in 1883 near Times Square,
1885 – Opéra de Nice, Nice, France
Architect: Francois Aune
After the previous opera house on this site burned down after a gas explosion during a performance in 1881,
1886 – Design for Sydney Opera House, New South Wales
Architect: J. Hampden Shaw
Published in The Irish Builder,
