Talk:Royal Opera House

message: "most important opera house"?  Is this something that is obvious to Brits??  Without further explanation, it seems a bit POV.
:Yes, it's so obvious that qualifying it to avoid pov allegations is silly and I'm writing as someone who attends its main rival more frequently as it is cheaper. Wincoote 03:18, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  Yes, I agree and I have removed this statement ("the finest opera house") from the article. I have removed something similar on the Metropolitan Opera House's article. --Karljoos (talk) 20:45, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments

message: Could anyone please add how many people can be seated in the opera house, maybe some more technical data too like the measurements? and could someone maybe add some images from the inside? cheers... Gryffindor 11:16, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  number of seats, inside images? 

message: Have changed bit about Chris Smith as he did not agree the lottery funding. Also I have added an external link for the damning DCMS report.Piersmasterson 16:11, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Management Issues 

message: I have transferred the content about the Royal Opera to the Royal Opera page to make it consistent with the Royal Ballet content and to focus this page more closely on the building and its history. Humansdorpie 09:30, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Royal Opera 

message: I have removed these and propose that others do the same if they appear again.
Consensus please.
Vivaverdi 02:47, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: For what it's worth, I agree with Vivaverdi, the section is unacceptable as it stands/stood. Perhaps a very brief factual statement about other services available makes sense, but as it is it's a puff piece, and not a very interesting one. Mak (talk) 17:36, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removal of purely commercial info, links, etc re: restaurants and bars on the site 

message: It would be great if this article had more pictures . . . the two interior drawings are rather redundant, and you can't tell what the place actually looks like now, inside or out.--Dmz5 03:32, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Are we able to use pictures on . From reading the wikimedia commons documentation, I believe we are. It might be worth including the bridge image for lack of anything better... EAi 12:14, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: In response to the request for an alternative exterior photograph I have belatedly uploaded an image for possible use on the page, shown here.  Russ London (talk) 18:06, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

text: Nice shot! And a nice London blue sky to boot.  Let's use it.Viva-Verdi (talk) 18:28, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

text: and, as a P.S., it would be a better top-of-the-article photo than the one of Floral Hall. Viva-Verdi (talk) 18:31, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for the endorsement, Viva-Verdi. On the sole basis of your views I'm going to move the pic to the top of the article. If we're subsequently outvoted, it can always be reverted. Russ London (talk) 17:57, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pictures? 

message: Is it possible to start a disambiguation page named "Royal Opera House", since the name may also refer to the Royal Opera House in Valletta, Malta. Perhaps you could let me know what you think is best. Thanks. Marcus1234 08:29, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Added small disambiguation line at the top pointing to this article. Doesn't warrant a full disambiguation page as there are only two articles (that I'm aware of), and this one is by far the most significant. EAi 17:18, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree with AEi on this. Vivaverdi 17:32, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That's good enough, thanks. Marcus1234 18:25, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Disambiguation

message: Surely we don't need this. It adds nothing to understanding the history or function of the ROH...
ALSO: removing the specific sections devoted to pointing the way to the ROH's performance history after 1945 doesn't add to anything.
In fact, they help separate out the history of the house itself from the performances given in it in modern times.
I hope that there can be a consensus here that these reverts should remain.
Viva-Verdi 22:42, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  5th Element Trivia removed 

message: Someone added a sentence which suggested that everyone sees the surtitles, which, when joined to the existing sentence (nowe modified by me), suggested that only some seats have the electronic libretto.
Is this correct? Viva-Verdi 17:16, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Does ROH have BOTH surtitles and electronic monitors? 

message: The ROH is obviously a good opera house with a good opera company. However, saying that it is the “one of the foremost opera houses in the world”, even if such statement is sourced, doesn’t follow the standards of objectivity that should be found in an encyclopedia article. Also, it lacks sources. I question whether this edit have followed WP:NPOV. That is why I removed it.  Cheers! --Karljoos (talk) 20:43, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: WP:NPOV means "...representing fairly, and as far as possible without bias, all significant views that have been published by reliable sources". The Royal Opera House is not just one of many theaters in the world. It clearly belongs to a limited group of very important operatic venues. Expressing this doesn't violate NPOV. And especially users who are unfamiliar with the subject have the right to know that there is some difference between the Royal Opera House or the MET or the Vienna Staatoper or La Scala, and the Santa Fé Opera for example. --Catgut (talk) 10:56, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  One of the foremost opera houses in the world?  

message: What building was that? I remember reading about it a few years ago. It was either in Paris or in London. I don't know if its still standing. When it was being renovated in the mid-1800s a body was discovered inside one of the walls. At that time it was already at least 200 years old. --208.65.188.23 (talk) 05:02, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Body discovered in wall?

message: Recently the file :File:Covent Garden Theatre by Henry Brookes.jpg (right) was uploaded and it appears to be relevant to this article and not currently used by it. If you're interested and think it would be a useful addition, please feel free to include it. Dcoetzee 01:07, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  New file [[:File:Covent Garden Theatre by Henry Brookes.jpg]] 

message: This list was produced in discussions at Talk:Royal Opera, London but it was decided it should be here not there
*Lord Keynes 1944–46
*Lord Waverley 1946–58
*Lord Drogheda 1958–74
*Sir Claus Moser 1974–87
*Sir John Sainsbury 1987–91
*Sir Angus Stirling 1991–96
*Lord Chadlington 1996–97
*Sir Colin Southgate 1998–2003
*Dame Judith Mayhew 2003–08
*Simon Robey 2008–
almost-instinct 15:16, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  List of post-war chairmen 

message: I know a Hungarian pensioner's opinion does not matter much. Anyway, I'll write it down. I'm looking for the Royal Opera House website on the Internet, and it's a surprise that there is a UK sign on their website, which I know about the Ukrainians www.roh.org.uk. Maybe they sold their Opera House to them? Margit51talk 23:13, 28 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  The London Royal Opera House was sold? 

message: Looking further up, at a time there were too few pictures, but what I see today looks more like too many, and many sandwiching the text. Am I the only one to think so? -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:54, 18 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  over-pictured?