However, during the early development of our ideas we found ourselves asking, why not be one Opera House with three stages? By inserting a vertical glass volume, the Clore Studio is brought into the public realm and can be embraced as a third house. The brief clearly expressed the ambition to become “one Opera House with two stages”. It also required a cultural and management shift to allow a consistent public realm of shared spaces.
Bringing the city into the Royal Opera House required radical changes to the interface between the public and private spaces within. Creating a single, accessible volume at the very heart of the building was central to our thinking.
We endeavoured to open up the Opera House, both laterally, from Covent Garden to Bow Street, and vertically, from the Linbury Studio Theatre to the Clore Studio. In our competion entry we embraced the new vision of the Royal Opera House as “more revealing, more playful and more fun”. To a casual visitor to Covent Garden, it is all but invisible. The Royal Opera House is an extraordinary place, but it is essentially a hidden place.
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