The Royal Opera House at Covent Garden, London, closes in July for a three-year £200m redevelopment. It is hoped a temporary theatre, to be shared with the Royal Ballet, will be built on the South Bank by Tower Bridge. It would not be ready until 1998.
The redeveloped Royal Opera House is scheduled to re-open as part of the millennium celebrations in 2000.
- The Times 10/12/96 page 5, page 35
