0 a theatre/theater in which operas are performed. -- operaen, operahus
Since opera was the main entertainment during the season, audiences saw the same hierarchical order every time they went to the opera house.
And none of these hints ever reaches a level of clarity that would allow for the new pseudo-geography within the opera house to unfold fully.
However, the descriptions offered are vague and confirmation in the opera house is almost non-existent.
One clause is of overriding importance in understanding the special nature of the conversion of concert room into opera house.
Or it may be that an independently popular text was set and never heard inside the opera house, but had a circulation of its own.
We begin in an impressive interior space, the opera house, 'a great house, a strange one, in the heart of the city'.
Instead of half a dozen identifiable figures, we see (in a major opera house) up to a hundred choristers.
These conclusions are confirmed, either directly or indirectly, by observations from the opera house.
