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	Coliseum Theatre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Coliseum Theatre is one of London's largest and best equipped theatres, opening in 1904.
		Built by Frank Matcham, a famous theatrical architect who designed two famous London theatres: the London Palladium and the London Coliseum.
		Becoming the Coliseum Theatre between 1931 and 1968 (651 performances of the musical comedy White Horse Inn, starting April 8, 1931), it reverted to the original name when English National Opera moved into the theatre in 1968.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/London_Coliseum (322 words)

	THEATRE-London-Coliseum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		This artist's impression of the London Coliseum from around 1904, was issued Feb. 19 2004 by the English National Opera.
		The Coliseum was to open Feb. 7, but delays in completing the stage systems meant the date had to be pushed back.
		The Coliseum's opening 100 years ago was also delayed, first by technical difficulties, then by a dense London fog.
	www.cp.org /english/online/full/travel/040223/u022310A.html (450 words)

	Stoll Tour
		The site chosen for the new Coliseum was at the bottom of St. Martins Lane, and it developed into a race between Stoll and Barrasford to have their respective music halls open first.
		In connection with the London suburban halls, the Wood Green Empire, sited in the High Road, was in direct opposition to the new Finsbury Park Empire of Moss' erected in 1910 to replace the Holloway Empire, which was disposed of.
		Within the entrance of the London Coliseum Theatre, at the back of the foyer, is a bust of her, which her son had erected.
	pages.britishlibrary.net /mikepymm/stoll.htm (5014 words)

	London Tourist Information on AboutBritain.com
		London is the capital of Britain, and has something to offer everyone - majestic stately houses, tranquil green parks and a zoo, engrossing museums and art galleries and bustling shopping centres with all the major stores, specialist shops and markets.
		London has a strong maritime tradition, and the docklands on the Thames are undergoing a transformation from empty warehouses to smart city offices and homes.
		Here's a range of hotels in London city centre which are an ideal base for exploring the city.
	www.aboutbritain.com /towns/London.asp (750 words)

	CEI - visualization and post-processing for construction and architechture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		LONDON, March 29, 2001 - During its nearly 100-year history, the London Coliseum has played host to many forms of entertainment, including horse races, musicals, varieties, cinema and finally the English National Opera.
		The company's master plan for the Coliseum will improve the standards of support facilities, provide better disabled access and egress, and upgrade the appeal of the building.
		The London Coliseum was completed in late 1904.
	www.ceintl.com /news/arup.html (949 words)

	Covent Garden London History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The revolving globe at the pinnacle of the London Coliseum tower in St Martin’s Lane is a distinctive feature of the Covent Garden skyline.
		The Coliseum has since had several incarnations – a variety theatre in which vast spectacles were enacted, a venue for the big American musicals of the 1940s and 1950s, and a cinema.
		In its 28 years at the London Coliseum, ENO has established itself at the heart of the capital’s operatic life.
	www.coventgarden.uk.com /coliseum.html (1133 words)

	Fresh Air for the Coliseum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Coliseum's management has handed Arup, a London-based engineering firm, a to-do list—to improve support facilities, to provide better access to the building, and to enhance its general appeal, which includes improving theatergoers' comfort through the quality of ventilation.
		The volume of the London Coliseum's auditorium is immense, almost 15,000 cubic meters, or a half-million cubic feet.
		The Coliseum started with a plenum-style ventilation system that was changed in 1932 to a design that supplied air at the floor and extracted it at the ceiling.
	www.memagazine.org /backissues/july01/features/freshair/freshair.html (881 words)

	English National Opera- london
		As you settle into your seat at the London Coliseum to hear a performance by English National Opera, have you ever thought how it all came to be there - the building, the particular opera, the cast, orchestra and scenery?
		Built as the jewel in the crown of music hall owner Oswold Stoll, it was intended to surpass music hall and entertain Edwardian London with lavish stage settings and the proverbial cast of hundreds.
		Opera was established at the Coliseum in 1968 when Sadler's Wells Opera, later to become English National Opera, took a lease and converted the theatre into an opera house.
	www.coventgardenlife.com /music/reviews/coliseum.htm?PlaceID=176 (330 words)

	Howell, Gwynne - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Howell, Gwynne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		From 1968 he sang with the Sadler's Wells Theatre, London, and from 1970 at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London in operas by Strauss, Puccini, Verdi, and Mussorgsky, and in the 1972 first performance of Maxwell Davies' Taverner.
		He is well known as a concert singer in Europe and North America (for example performing Beethoven's Missa solemnis), and in March 1986 sang Gurnemanz in a new production of Parsifal at the London Coliseum.
		He made his New York Metropolitan Opera House debut in 1985, as Pogner in Meistersinger, and sang King Philip in Don Carlos for the English National Opera Ensemble in 1992.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Howell,+Gwynne (181 words)

	The London Coliseum Theatre in London, home to English National Opera
		This 'Italian Renaissance' style theatre is one of the largest in London and was styled as a 'People's Palace of Entertainment and Art' - some 67,000 people visited The London Coliseum in its opening week - there where four two hour performances each day running from 12noon to 11.00pm.
		In January 2002 a major refurbishment started and is expected to be completed in January 2004, in time to celebrate the theatre's centenary year.
		The London Coliseum became the new home of The Sadler's Wells Opera Company - renamed The English National Opera - in 1968 since when they have presented annual season's of opera - all sung in English - interspersed by visiting company's such as The English National Ballet.
	www.thisistheatre.com /londontheatre/coliseumtheatre.html (190 words)

	London Coliseum, London WC2 : tourist information from TourUK
		The London Coliseum, the largest theatre in London, is also one of the most flamboyant.
		The Coliseum was the first theatre in London to have a revolving stage and the first theatre in Europe to be fitted with lifts.
		Originally a variety house, the Coliseum became a cinema for a short period in 1961 - 68, but now it is home to the English National Opera (ENO).
	www.touruk.co.uk /london_theatres_halls/londoncoliseum_theatre1.htm (190 words)

	RCI: London (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Three years after its acclaimed première at the London Coliseum, Richard Jones's English National Opera production of Alban Berg's Lulu returns, once again with Lisa Saffer starring as the femme fatale who "becomes" whoever her lovers want her to become.
		After the Coliseum's refurbishment, the company returned with a clutch of major sponsorship deals in a "season of consolidation", which included the start of Phyllida Law's (controversial or viscerally forceful depending on your viewpoint) Ring cycle, which culminates in The Twilight of the Gods in April.
		Trafalgar Square is served by many of central London's bus routes, all ideal for access to the London Coliseum.
	www.whatsontheplanet.com /wow/ptnr/rci/page.jsp?fx=event&event_id=108127 (549 words)

	classical music - andante - english national opera delays reopening of its london theater
		English National Opera has postponed its return to the stage of the London Coliseum, its home in the British capital.
		London's Daily Telegraph and BBC News report that technical difficulties in completing the theater's £41 million renovation led the company to postpone the restored opera house's inaugural production — a Peter Sellars staging of John Adams's Nixon in China — by two weeks to Saturday 21 February.
		ENO has been working on the renovation for three years and closed the Coliseum last June for the major construction work.
	www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=22953 (398 words)

	A London Tourist Guide - Music in London
		London is home to all types of music from classical to jazz, below you will find a small selection including information on London's Orchestra's and venues.
		The Coliseum is home to the English National Opera who perform works throughout the year except for Christmas and occasionally in the summer when the ballet takes over.
		It was formed in 1904 by its 50 members after they had a dispute with the Queen's Hall Orchestra and decided to form their own orchestra, which they could govern themselves.
	www.londonvisions.com /main_musicinlondon.htm (335 words)

	Coliseum Theatre London - Information, Bookings & Seating Plan
		Originally opened as a variety house in December 1904, the Coliseum is London's largest theatre and was designed by famed theatre architect Frank Matcham for Sir Oswald Stoll.
		In 1931, as a result of the decline in popularity of vaudeville, the Coliseum turned to musical comedy and enjoyed much distinction for the the next 30 years until this form of entertainment also lost favour with the patrons.
		After a brief and unsuccessful period as a cinema during the early 1960s, it reopened as a theatre in 1968 and in 1974 became the home of the English National Opera who bought the freehold in 1992.
	www.1st4londontheatre.co.uk /theatres/coliseum.shtml (214 words)

	London Coliseum (home of the English National Opera) \| Bar/Club Review \| London \| Frommers.com
		London Coliseum (home of the English National Opera)
		Built in 1904 as a variety theater and converted into an opera house in 1968, the London Coliseum is the city's largest theater.
		Please be sure to confirm all rates and details directly with the companies in question before planning your trip.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/london/N24633.html (249 words)

	Carthalia - London: The London Coliseum (English National Opera)
		Built 1904 as "The London Coliseum" by Frank Matcham for Sir Oswald Stoll.
		Re-opened 1968 as "The London Coliseum", home to the "English National Opera" company (which moved there from Sadler's Wells Theatre).
		Reverse Text: "The interior of the London Coliseum, London's largest theatre (2358 seats), built in 1904 for Sir Oswald Stoll by Frank Matcham.
	www.andreas-praefcke.de /carthalia/uk/uk_london_coliseum.htm (243 words)

	New Statesman (1996): Dialogues of the Carmelites.(London Coliseum)(Review)@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		On the opening night at the English National Opera I sat next to the man from the Church Times, who agreed the spectacle had an impact.
		Poulenc's opera has another week to run at the London Coliseum.
		The pauses in the first scenes on the opening night where dialogue drooped into serial monologue 'will by now be up to speed.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:55166519&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (214 words)

	Musorgsky ‘Khovanischina’ English National Opera, London Coliseum, January 23rd 2003. (ME) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		This chorus has always given us singing of wonderful musicality and subtlety, and on this occasion we were treated to an even more striking demonstration of how it is possible to present the singing of over a hundred souls without turning what is heard in the auditorium into one massive wall of sound.
		Every one of his words came through that splendid beard, and his summons to his followers would be enough to raise the dead, let alone persuade them to give their utmost for their faith.
		It cannot be said too often that the ENO deserves the same kind of practical treatment as the ROH, and that if the new management is truly intent upon downsizing it, they will do so at the greatest possible cost to London’s cultural and artistic life.
	www.musicweb-international.com /SandH/2003/Khov231.htm (630 words)

	Travel Channel :: London (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The company is based at the London Coliseum.
		Fifty-four miles south of London, Glyndebourne is one of the most famous opera houses in the world.
		There are regular trains from London (Victoria) to Lewes with coach connections to and from Glyndebourne.
	travel.discovery.com /destinations/fodors/london/nightarts_20219_1.html (222 words)

	Bolshoi Ballet, Don Quixote, Coliseum, London, July 1999, Clive Barnes, Dance Magazine, October 1999
		This July, opening and closing on the same days, July 6 and July 31, were Moscow’s Bolshoi Ballet at the Coliseum Theatre (London's second opera house— the home of the English National Opera) and Britain's Royal Ballet at the newly refurbished, refitted, and essentially remade Sadler’s Wells Theatre.
		Although it was London in July 1999 - an extraordinarily hot July, incidentally, for Britain seems to be enduring the same incipient signs of global warming that are heating up the United States - my mind kept slipping its moorings back to two earlier points of personal reference.
		In fact, that's an understatement, for Vasiliev, in an appointment in 1995 directly from Russian president Boris Yeltsin, is actually in charge of the whole theater, ballet, opera, and orchestra; he last year delegated the artistic direction of the ballet company to Fadeyechev.
	www.ananiashvili.com /reviews/donquixote/bolshoi99_donq_dm100199.htm (757 words)

	Albemarle of London
		Blue Man Group is best known for multi-media performances that feature three bald and blue characters who take the audience through a multi-sensory, multi-media journey that combines theatre, percussion, music, art, science, and vaudeville into a form of entertainment that is like nothing else.
		The London Evening Standard thought that "intelligent audiences of all ages and ideologies will relish this elegant Peter Hall production, which is that rare thing, a Shavian comedy with a soul and heart attached...
		The London Evening Standard highlighted that the "dazzling Kristin Scott Thomas restores sexual charisma to the London stage." The Guardian thought that, although the "plot certainly intrigues...
	www.albemarle-london.com /News.php (3327 words)

	BBC NEWS \| England \| London \| Passengers see busking ballerina
		Ballerina Begona Cao performed in a busking spot at the station, in a London Eye capsule and in front of children at Whittington Hospital.
		The ENB returns to the Coliseum on 21 December after a two-year renovation.
		The posters, which will go on display in the London Underground, feature dancers in unexpected urban settings, such as leaping over traffic cones in an underpass and in a car park.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/england/london/3653096.stm (201 words)

	Handel's 'Jephtha' at the London Coliseum, reviewed by Robert Hugill.
		Whatever niggling doubts I have about Mitchell's production, there is no doubting the way that she and her cast managed to completely bring to life the trauma that is implicit in this difficult story.
		The last performance in the current run of this English National Opera production of Handel's Jephtha is at 7pm on Wednesday 15 June 2005 at the London Coliseum.
		Robert Hugill also investigates the fascinating world of opera in eighteenth century London, in Handel's Singers.
	www.mvdaily.com /articles/2005/06/jephtha4.htm (575 words)

	Lulu at ENO, London - Whats On in London
		They are all drawn further and further down into the bottomless depths of depravity until the Countess, Schigolch and Lulu are destitute in London, where they are preyed upon by none other than Jack the Ripper.
		From its beginnings at Sadler's Wells, the opera company which sang its productions in English moved to the London Coliseum in 1968, changing its title to English National Opera in 1974.
		Following Sir Colin Davis, Sir Charles Mackerras, Sir Charles Groves, Mark Elder and Sian Edwards, current music director Paul Daniel and new artistic director Seán Doran are now charged with upholding the highest artistic standards in times of change.
	www.viewlondon.co.uk /whats_on_108127.html (402 words)

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