Plate 64: Royal Opera House, auditorium in 1858 and 1897-8

Survey of London: Volume 35, the theatre Royal, Drury Lane, and the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Originally published by London County Council, London, 1970.

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'Plate 64: Royal Opera House, auditorium in 1858 and 1897-8', in Survey of London: Volume 35, the theatre Royal, Drury Lane, and the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, ed. F H W Sheppard( London, 1970), British History Online https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol35/plate-64 [accessed 23 November 2024].

'Plate 64: Royal Opera House, auditorium in 1858 and 1897-8', in Survey of London: Volume 35, the theatre Royal, Drury Lane, and the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Edited by F H W Sheppard( London, 1970), British History Online, accessed November 23, 2024, https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol35/plate-64.

"Plate 64: Royal Opera House, auditorium in 1858 and 1897-8". Survey of London: Volume 35, the theatre Royal, Drury Lane, and the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Ed. F H W Sheppard(London, 1970), , British History Online. Web. 23 November 2024. https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol35/plate-64.

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Auditorium

Figure 64a:

Auditorium. From an engraving in The Illustrated London News, 10 July 1858, p. 33.

Auditorium in 1897

Figure 64b:

Auditorium in 1897. Reproduced by permission from a photograph in the Raymond Mander and Joe Mitchenson Theatre Collection.