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The Royal Theatre new playhouse

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Picture from gallery: The Copenhagen Opera House

On January 1, 2005, the new opera opened on Holmen. The Copenhagen Opera House is the solution to the limitations the Royal Theatre had to deal with at the Royal Theater on Kongens Nytorv. The opera is the new venue for opera and ballet, with state of the art facilities. The entire project is a donation made by the A.P. Møller and Chastine Mc-Kinney Møller Foundation.

The Opera House is an impressive building, which dominates the entrance to the Copenhagen Port. It totals over 41,000 square metres and has got 14 storeys, of which 5 lies underground. 1,500 people can be seated in the main theatre and those who are seated on the floor can admire three long stretching balconies above their heads. Just to give you a clue of the hugeness of the building, the house contains 1,000 rooms, which includes several rehearsal rooms as well as a big orchestral rehearsal room.
Having said all this The Copenhagen Opera House naturally counts as one of the worlds most modern and appreciated opera houses, almost as special in it's features as The Sydney Opera House, which was by the way also built by a Dane.