| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
| 1732/12/07 | Theatre Royal (lost) in Covent Garden opens with "The Way of the World" by William Congeve. | |||||
| 1743/03/23 | George Frederick Handel | Composer | Handel performs Messiah at the Covent Garden theatre. Chief soloist Avoglio and Cibber are joined by the tenor John Beard, a veteran of Handel's operas, the bass Thomas Rheinhold and two other sopranos, Kitty Clive and Miss Edwards. | Messiah (Handel) | ||
| 1792/09/17 | Theatre Royal (lost) in Covent Garden reopens after a cost of 25,000 pound sterling reconstruction by Henry Holland. | |||||
| 1808/09/20 | The rebuilt Theatre Royal (lost) in Covent Garden burns down. Handel's own Organ and many of his manuscripts are destroyed. | |||||
| 1808/12/31 | The foundation stone is laid by the Prince of Wales for a New Theatre Royal (lost) in Covent-Garden. | |||||
| 1809/09/18 | Robert Smirke (architect) | Architect | Designed by the Robert Smirke the New Theatre Royal (lost) in Covent-Garden opens with a production of Shakespeare's Tragedy of MACBETH. The building cost 150,000 pounds sterling to build. | Macbeth (play) | ||
| 1838/03/17 | SHAKSPEARE'S Coriolanus, as now represented at Covent Garden, is Without question the most perfect and impressive classic spectacle ever seen on the stage. It is a triumph of the art. - The Spectator | Coriolanus | ||||
| 1838/04/26 | Charles Dickens | Patron | Thomas Noon Talfourd arrives at Covent Garden (lost) and joins John Forster and Charles Dickens watching "Coriolanus" from Box C. | Coriolanus | ||
| 1858/05/15 | The present Covent Garden Opera house opens with a performance of "Les Huguents". Begun on Saturday evening, the show is prematurely finished during the third act when it was decide not to profane the Sabbath by continuing. | Les Huguenots (opera) | ||||
| 1909/10/00 | Agatha Christie | Audience member | Minnie Saltzman-Stevens performance in the Ring cycle at Covent Garden Theater leaves Madge Watts mesmerized and her sister, Agatha Miller in tears. | Der Ring des Nibelungen | ||
| 1909/10/00 | Minnie Saltzman-Stevens | Performer | In the Fall, Wagnerian soprano Minnie Saltzman-Stevens makes her European debut as Brunnhilde in an English version of the Ring cycle conducted by Karl Richter at Covent Garden Theater. | Der Ring des Nibelungen | ||
| 1912/06/26 | Lady Diana Cooper | Audience member | At Ballets Russes, Lady Diana Manners is enthralled by the sinuous choreography and haunting music of "Scheherazade" and by Leon Baskst's stage designs. | |||
| 1964/12/02 | "Les biches" has been performed fairly regularly at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden since 1964. | Les biches |
| Place | AsNotedIn | Type |
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| Place | AsNotedIn | Type |
| Floral Hall, London |
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| Particulars for Royal Opera House, Covent Garden: | |
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| Sight Category | Building |
| Building Design | Opera House |
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| NHLE List Entry Number: | 1066392 |
| Work | Type | AsNotedIn | Creator | Note |
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| Lord Edgware Dies | Novel | Agatha Christie |
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