Opera Houses In The Czech Republic
There are eleven opera houses in the Czech Republic. The most important are the two opera houses in Prague - National Theatre (Prague) and Prague State Opera and the Estates Theatre, which hosts one of the stages of the Prague National Theatre.
There are four other Opera Houses in Bohemia - Plzeň, České Budějovice, Liberec, Usti nad Labem - and four other opera houses in Moravia, including the Janáček National Opera - Brno, Ostrava, Olomouc, Opava.
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