Design for the remodelling of the Royal Opera House, Haymarket, London, incorporating an arcade: perspective

NOTES: The theatre which stood on this site was known by various names as the Queen's, the King's, Her Majesty's, His Majesty's, or the Opera House. It was originally built by Sir John Vanbrugh in 1704–1705 and destroyed by fire in 1789. It was rebuilt on a slightly larger site to the designs of Michael Novosielski in 1790–1791 and was remodelled in 1816–1818 it by John Nash and George Repton. They provided façades to Charles Street, the Haymarket and Pall Mall and also built the Royal Opera Arcade on the west side. The theatre (but not the surrounding façades) was again destroyed by fire in 1867 and was rebuilt to the designs of Charles Lee in 1868–1869. This theatre and all the surrounding premises designed by Nash and Repton (except the Royal Opera Arcade) were demolished in the 1890s. Part of the site is now occupied by Her Majesty’s Theatres (1897 by C. J. Phipps).