Tags: Theatre, Venue.
The Royal Opera House is an opera house and major performing arts venue in Covent Garden central London. The large building is often referred to as simply Covent Garden after a previous use of the site of the opera house’s original construction in 1732. It is the home of The Royal Opera The Royal Ballet and the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House. Originally called the Theatre Royal it served primarily as a playhouse for the first hundred years of its history.