The Royal Opera House of London is situated at Covent Garden in Londons West End. As a performing arts building it is home to the Royal Opera, Royal Ballet, and the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House. We are looking on the main front neoclassical portico of the Opera House and the Paul Hamlin Hall, an iron and glass structure left of the portico.
The main facade on Bow Street was designed by the principal architect of the opera House Edward Middleton Barry. It is dominated by a neoclassical portico resembling a monumental greek temple. It uses corinthian columns and Baroque Revival ornamentation, additionally it incorporates statues and reliefs of the former second Opera building.
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