Cork Opera House
Cork Opera House seeks to serve its city and surrounding region as a municipal theatre, offering its audiences a world class program of events across all disciplines in the performing arts.
Information
(Objekt ID 11763)| Object type | Organization |
| Organization type | District institution, Producing, Programming |
| Main focus | Theatre, Dance, Music, Opera, Musical theatre, Entertainment |
| Established | January 1, 1855 |
| Website | Cork Opera House |
Contact information
| Address | Emmet Place, Cork, Ireland |
Other information
| Legal entity | Other |
There has been a theatre on the present site of the Cork Opera House since 1855. The original structure was designed by Sir John Benson and had been constructed as a Fine Arts Hall for the National Exhibition for Ireland in 1852 before being relocated stone by stone to the site of the old Custom Building in Nelson Square. First named the Athenaeum, then the Munster Hall and, finally, the Opera House, it stood for one hundred years until it was destroyed in a fire in 1955.
Following a ten year fund-raising campaign, a modern 1,000 seat Opera House was designed by Scott Tallon Walker and rebuilt on the same site in the renamed Emmet Place.
Source: Cork Opera House, corkoperahouse.ie, 08.04.2011, http://www.corkoperahouse.ie/content/cork-opera-house