It is also known as the BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation Building, or BMC building for short. I use WIKI 2 every day and almost forgot how the original Wikipedia looks like. Royal Opera House Mumbai winning an Award of Merit in the 2017 UNESCO Asia-Pacific Awards for Cultural Heritage Conservation was the feather in the cap and big shot in the arm for this mammoth task of resonation. Work on the Royal Opera House was completed in 1912, although additions were made to the building up to 1915. In 1935, the opera house was modified to accommodate movie screenings and fashion shows. Twenty-six rows of boxes behind the stalls were put up for the best view of the stage. The pediment figure at the pinnacle was substituted with three cherubs. Gondal state was one of the eight first class princely states of Kathiawar Agency, Bombay Presidency in British India. As of 2011 it is the most populous city in India with an estimated city proper population of 12.4 million. [7] The area around the theatre is also referred to as the Opera House in Mumbai. The seating enabled a clear view of the stage to all the people seated in the stalls and in the Dress Circle. Behind the stalls were 26 rows of boxes with couches. The decor, the ambience, the seating, the stage, each is perfect. Initially, the opera house was used strictly for staging operas, and catered almost exclusively to the city's elite - a globalised layer of Indians, British officials, a few Europeans. You could also do it yourself at any point in time. Situated on Charni Road, near Girgaum Chowpatti beach, the adjective ‘Royal’ was prefixed to ‘Opera House’ to reflect the fact that its foundation stone was laid during the British Raj in 1909, and King George V inaugurated the building in 1911 while the building was still under construction. The initial plan proposed was to convert a part of the open plot to be developed commercially to generate funds, which could self sustain the expenditure involved in the restoration and maintenance of the existing heritage building. The pediment figure at the pinnacle was substituted with three cherubs. It was erected to commemorate the landing in December 1911 at Apollo Bunder, Mumbai of King-Emperor George V and Queen-Empress Mary, the first British monarch to visit India. The acoustics were of the opera house were created by shaping the ceiling in a manner that permitted distinct audibility that allowed the audience seated in the gallery to hear every word or song from the stage. The opera house screened not only premieres of Hindi movies but also live theatre performances by the French production Pathé, Prithviraj … After the first world war, times and tastes changed and it became difficult to maintain and run the opera house, a sumptuous building, on the income from the opera alone. In 1993 the Kathiawad fashion show became the last public event held at the opera house. Royal Opera House in South Mumbai is an impressive and unique building, after it’s renovation. The church was, in fact, built during the governorship of John FitzGibbon, 2nd Earl of Clare, who laid the foundation stone in July, 1832. Newsletter. A pair of unique crystal chandeliers, called the ‘Sans Souci’ were donated by the David Sassoon family. Many city-dwellers lead a fast-paced life with very little time for other activities owing to a significant amount of time spent on daily commuting. [4][5], In the 1980s, as home video players began to get popular, cinema houses in Mumbai started to register losses. News. Restoring the building would be a dream come true for me. Got to see it’s magnificent architecture from the outside. In the 1990s, with the growing popularity of cable television, cinema houses in Mumbai began to close down due to a lack of clientele. In 2011, the Population of the Gondal City Was 113,000 approximately. Continue your visit to www.tripadvisor.in. The seating enabled a clear view of the stage to all the people seated in the stalls and in the Dress Circle. The billionaire co-founder of Carphone Warehouse is set to build Britain's first opera house in more than a decade. The chandeliers, which were earlier located in the Sassoon mansion, were shifted to the foyer of the opera house. [1][2][3] Gradually, the entire are near it began being called "Opera house", and the building began hosting plays, dramas, music concernts and gradually, Hindi films. Royal Opera House, also known as Opera House in Mumbai (formerly Bombay), is India's only surviving opera house.