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,
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1855 – Cork Opera House (The Athenaeum), Cork
Architect: Sir John Benson / C.J. Phipps
The building, originally called ‘The Athenaeum’, was finished by early 1855. It hosted its first performance on 29 January 1855,
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, May 4th 1877. Opened on 18 November 1878. The exterior is in a mixture of Romanesque and Scottish baronial styles,
1880 – Alte Oper, Frankfurt
Architect: Richard Lucae
Opened by Kaiser Wilhelm I in 1880, the building was financed by wealthy Frankfurt citizens and was designed in Italian Renaissance style by Richard Lucae.
1883 – Old Metropolitan Opera House, New York
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, April 15 1888 – “WE present our readers with a lithograph reproduction of one of the competition drawings sent in for the above building,
