Dallas, fearful of being outdone by Houston's top-notch Wortham arts centre, will soon have a spanking new opera house and a big theatre complex.
In the course of introducing a film at the Sheridan Opera House, a beautiful little jewel box of a theater that dates back to the 19th century, a bright young woman said Sandra Bernhard had played there.
On May 17th, a black-tie audience at the Metropolitan Opera House applauded as a tall, jovial-looking billionaire took the stage.
The 72-year-old opera singer, who used to live in Chelsea, has made 200 appearances at the Royal Opera House during a career that began in 1959.
Fifteen years ago, he was also singing with a local opera company when he got a call to substitute for a singer at the Sydney Opera House.
The Royal Opera House plans a new production of Tosca, saying it hopes to establish another long running success.
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The crowning touch was a statue of Aladdin topping a fanciful Opera House that teetered on the irreversible edge of kitsch.
But the show goes on and, with the closure of the Royal Opera House for a lottery-subsidised rebuild, now enters a nomadic phase.
Presenters played games that were projected on screens in a converted opera house, but the PlayStations themselves were hidden backstage throughout Wednesday evening's two-hour event.
It broke several of the rules laid down for the competition to design a new opera house (in fact, two performance halls) on Bennelong Point, in Sydney.
You're sitting in an opera house with a lot of other people and you suddenly think, Oh my God, I'm actually alive, I am here, this is happening, and now it's over and if I don't remember it, it's gone.
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Among the other high-profile designers working in the city: London-based Zaha Hadid Architects designed a new opera house under construction, and Information Based Architecture of Amsterdam designed the TV and sightseeing tower that will contain retail shops and gardens with teahouses.
Two hours later, the huge crowds around the harbour in the Australian city of Sydney watched as seven tonnes of fireworks lit up the famous landmarks of the Harbour Bridge and the Opera House to a soundtrack co-written by Australian singer Kylie Minogue.
Locals might snigger at the city's celluloid makeover actress Thandie Newton cruises past the Opera House in a harbor uncluttered by ferries, the movie's deadly virus is housed in an office tower normally home to the New South Wales state premier, and the Spanish hacienda is actually located in urban Elizabeth Bay.
She has served on the board of the Royal Opera House, was a trustee of the Architecture Foundation and governor of the Royal Ballet.
Sir Terry, like Sir Peter, comes from modest origins in Merseyside, but whereas the quiet, lean Sir Terry still collects visitors personally from the lobby of Tesco's shabby headquarters in Cheshunt, the charismatic, rotund Sir Peter directs Sainsbury's fortunes from a glass-and-steel office block in central London and seems most at home at the Royal Opera House, where he is a director.
Mr. Ives saw Mr. Glass's abstract opera "Einstein on the Beach" when it first came to the Metropolitan Opera House, and he's a long time fan of the composer's music.
The Opera House was lit in a deep shade of green to symbolise renewable energy.
That message was stressed in a message from the prime minister in the programme for Wednesday night's event, in which he underlined the government's wish to see the venue become a people's opera house.
The man who reigns over centuries of elitism and grandeur at Covent Garden's Royal Opera House in London wears a plain, unpretentious pair of cuff links that belonged to his grandfather a hard-working Liverpool docker who went off to war in 1914 as a humble private.
If you're not exhausted by the machinations of the Opera House, cool off with a relaxing dip.
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Amphlett met musician Mark McEntee at a concert at the Sydney Opera House in 1980 and the pair formed the Divinyls.
This low-rise hotel under the Harbour Bridge takes a different approach to the Opera House: water level and straight ahead, giving the view added drama.
He had also become a director of the Royal Opera House.
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Mr Piano, who comes from a long line of Italian masterbuilders, collaborated with Richard Rogers on the Pompidou Centre in Paris, and is now working on a commission at the Potsdamer Platz in Berlin, as well as on a skyscraper near the Sydney Opera House.
London's Royal Opera House (ROH) has announced a new commitment to contemporary opera until 2020.
These are often as small as an invitation to a reception, a discount in a museum shop or a backstage tour at the Royal Opera House.
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Mr Robey said Lord Hall would leave behind a "very different" Royal Opera House, which is also home to the Royal Ballet, to the one he took over in 2001.
The Opera House had already said it favoured a contemporary story with a touch of humour but nothing really coalesced until Turnage met Richard Thomas, co-author of Jerry Springer: the Opera.
Initially presented in April at a studio theater within the Royal Opera House, "The Fireworks-Maker's Daughter" calls for nine players plus the conductor, all of whom are onstage, rather than hidden in the pit.
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