Opera Houses and Concert Halls

Buildings made for performance, among them the sailed opera house of Sydney, the Paris opera house of the Second Empire and a concert hall of steel and stone in Los Angeles. A building belongs here when the cited article calls it an opera house, a concert hall or a theatre. It excludes museums and galleries. The group follows the use the cited article names for the building. Each was built to hold audiences for music, opera or dance, and each is known as much for its architecture and acoustics as for the performances held inside, so the group follows the use of the building and not its architect or date.