Royal Opera House
7 Bow Street,
London,
WC2E 9DD
7 Bow Street,
London,
WC2E 9DD
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None of The Red Shoes supposedly ROH-set interiors are genuine (anymore than they are in Woody Allen’s Match Point). But an utterly forgotten film from 1957 starring Harry Secombe - “Davy”, concerning a boyo with operatic ambitions - was indeed shot inside the House, partly for his on-stage audition and partly during an enormous stage rehearsal for Wagner’s “Die Meistersinger von Nurnburg” with a then-unknown Joan Sutherland in the cast and the full orchestra in the pit.
Ron, I may have served you tickets, as I worked for 4 years (1972-1976) in the Floral Street box office, down the right-hand side of the Royal Opera House. Also ‘took the house in’ using the main foyer box office in the evenings.
Like you, not sure of the shooting locations of “The Red Shoes”.
I went here many times for performances while visiting England. Every time I went the place was sold out. Years ago the ticket office was located, not in the foyer, but in a storefront across from the right side of the theater. At least once I got a last-minute ticket there in the “side-slips” of the top balcony for only one pound. The top balcony was called the “amphitheater” and there was a seperate entrance for it on the right side of the building. It was a very long climb up to the top. I believe that the 1948 movie “The Red Shoes” has some scenes filmed inside the ROH ?? Not sure of that. I toured the theater, including the stage and wings, in August 1989 with a group of Theatre Historical Society (USA) members.
A 1978 vintage photo of the Royal Opera House, before the recent refurbishment, can be found here:–
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