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3 unusual facts about The English Opera


The English Opera

The Lyceum Theatre, London, commonly known as the "The English Opera" or "The English Opera House" until the 1840s.

The Palace Theatre, London, originally named the Royal English Opera House was intended as a home for English Grand Opera

The English National Opera, an English opera company founded by Lilian Baylis



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Samuel James Arnold

Under his management the Lyceum Theatre, London became the English Opera House, and staged the first English productions of many operas, including in 1824 Carl Maria von Weber's Der Freischütz.

In 1816 the English Opera House was reopened by Arnold, having been rebuilt upon an enlarged scale by Samuel Beazley, the architect, at a cost of 80,000 pounds.

Other foreign operas of note, the Tarare of Antonio Salieri, The Freebooters by Ferdinando Paer, The Robber's Bride by Ferdinand Ries, and Heinrich Marschner's Der Vampyr, were afterwards produced at the English Opera House for the first time in England.