The five venues making up the main performance facilities: The Concert Hall - 2,679 seats. The Opera Theatre - 1,507 seats. The Drama Theatre - 544 seats. The Playhouse - 398 seats. The Studio - capacity of 400 people.
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The largest opera house in Europe is the Bastille Opera house in Paris with a capacity of over 2700 seats.
Pacific Opera was created in 2003.
The Flying Opera was created in 2008.
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We picked our seats in the restaurants.All the seats for the opera were booked.Plane seats never have enough legroom.
The Threepenny Opera was created in 1928.
The largest Opera House in the world according to the number of seats is the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City. It has 3,800 seats and more than 300 spaces for standing room. It's followed by Chicago's Civic Opera Theatre which is home to the Chicago Lyric Opera. The Civic Opera Theatre has 3,560. Cincinnati's Music Hall, home of the Cincinnati Opera ranks third with 3,516 seats. Theses housed dwarf the European houses of which the largest only hold around 3,000 people. Milan's La Scala for example has only 2,800 seats and London's Royal Opera House at Covent Garden has 2,268 seats. The Arena in Verona can seat up to 20,000. While it could be argued that it is not an opera house as it does not have a roof and it was built for gladiators, it has been staging opera for 100 years - much longer than the Met!
Pinchgut Opera was created in 2002.