It
all began in 2000, when the A.P. Møller and Chastine
Mc-Kinney Møller Foundation decided to donate an
opera house to the Danish people, they contracted the
well known architect, Henning Larsen, who immediately
set to work. Four years and 2,5 billion Danish Crowns
later on October 1, 2004, Denmark’s most discussed
and remarkable building project since the bridge over
Store Baelt, was officially handed over to the Danish
people. The opera houses The Royal Danish Theatre.
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The Opera House (Operaen) is an impressive building,
which dominates the entrance to the Copenhagen Port.
It totals over 41,000 square metres and has got 14 storeys,
of which 5 lies underground. 1,500 people can be seated
in the main theatre and those who are seated on the
floor can admire three long stretching balconies above
their heads.
Just to give you a clue of the hugeness of the building,
the house contains 1,000 rooms, which includes several
rehearsal rooms as well as a big orchestral rehearsal
room.
Having said all this, The Copenhagen Opera House naturally
counts as one of the worlds most modern and appreciated
opera houses, almost as special in it’s features
as The Sydney Opera House, which was by the way also
built by a Dane.
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