Royal Opera or Royal Opera House may refer to:
- Khedivial Opera House, Cairo, Egypt; burnt down in 1971
- Royal Swedish Opera, opera house and opera company in Sweden
- L'Opéra of the Palace of Versailles or L'Opéra Royal de Versailles, France
- Opéra Royal de Wallonie, opera house in Liège, Belgium
- Royal Opera House (Mumbai), disused opera house in India
- Royal Opera House Muscat, opera house in Muscat, Oman
- Royal Opera House, Valletta, opera house in Malta
- Royal Opera House, opera house in Covent Garden, London, home of
- The Royal Opera, leading opera company in England
- Royal Wanganui Opera House, opera house in New Zealand
- Formerly "Royal" opera houses or companies
- Berlin State Opera, Germany: "Royal Opera House", 1843–1918
- Hungarian State Opera House, Budapest: "Hungarian Royal Opera House", 1884–1945?
- Kroll Opera House, Berlin, Germany: "New Royal Opera Theatre", 1895–1924
- Palace Theatre, London, London: "Royal English Opera House", 1891–1892
- Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Italy: "Royal Opera House", 1926–1946
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Famous quotes containing the words royal and/or opera:
“This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle,
This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
This other Eden, demi-paradise,
This fortress built by nature for herself
Against infection and the hand of war,
This happy breed of men, this little world,
This precious stone set in the silver sea,
Which serves it in the office of a wall,
Or as a moat defensive to a house
Against the envy of less happier lands;
This blessèd plot, this earth, this realm, this England.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“If music in general is an imitation of history, opera in particular is an imitation of human willfulness; it is rooted in the fact that we not only have feelings but insist upon having them at whatever cost to ourselves.... The quality common to all the great operatic roles, e.g., Don Giovanni, Norma, Lucia, Tristan, Isolde, Brünnhilde, is that each of them is a passionate and willful state of being. In real life they would all be bores, even Don Giovanni.”
—W.H. (Wystan Hugh)