Miss Sutherland first sang Lucia at Covent Garden in 1959.

-- For its final change of bill in its London season, the Leningrad State Kirov Ballet chose tonight to give one of those choreographic miscellanies known as a `` gala program '' at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

* 1732 – The Royal Opera House opens at Covent Garden, London.

She was awarded a contract with the Royal Opera in London and made her début at Covent Garden as Marie in La Fille du régiment in 1876.

In 1782 she left Drury Lane for Covent Garden.

* 1734 – Premiere performance of George Frideric Handel's Ariodante at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

From 1730 to 1739 he worked in England, in Pown House, Moor Park and in the Theatre of Covent Garden.

After dining with the McCartneys at Peppermint Park in Covent Garden, Moon and Walter-Lax returned to their flat.

The emergency stairs at Covent Garden station have 193 steps to reach the exit ( equivalent to climbing to the top of a 15-floor building ), so passengers are advised to use the lifts as climbing the steps can be dangerous.

Stations which have a particular problem include Camden Town station, Chancery Lane and Covent Garden, which accordingly have access restrictions at certain times.

* Shortest distance between stations –, between Leicester Square and Covent Garden on the Piccadilly line.

In 2007, Iranian filmmaker Maziar Bahari selected O Dreamland and Every Day Except Christmas ( 1957 ), a record of a day in the old Covent Garden market, for his top 10 classics from the history of documentary.

Charles Macklin, not otherwise recalled as a great Macbeth, is remembered for performances at Covent Garden in 1773 at which riots broke out, related to Macklin's rivalries with Garrick and William Smith.

Macready debuted in the role in 1820 at Covent Garden.

* 1858 – Opening of the present Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London.

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The diarist Samuel Pepys observed a marionette show featuring an early version of the Punch character in Covent Garden in London.

In the early 18th century, the marionette theatre starring Punch was at its height, with showman Martin Powell attracting sizable crowds at both Covent Garden and Bath, Somerset.

A visit to a Punch and Judy Festival at Punch's " birthplace " in London's Covent Garden will reveal a whole variety of changes that are rung by puppeteers from this basic material and although scripts have been published at different times since the early 19th century, none can be claimed as being the definitive traditional script of Punch and Judy.

Soon psychedelic rock clubs like the UFO Club in Tottenham Court Road, Middle Earth Club in Covent Garden, The Roundhouse in Chalk Farm, the Country Club ( Swiss Cottage ) and the Art Lab ( also in Covent Garden ) were drawing capacity audiences with psychedelic rock and ground-breaking liquid light shows.

Pubs near London's Smithfield market, Billingsgate fish market and Covent Garden fruit and flower market could stay open 24 hours a day since Victorian times to provide a service to the shift working employees of the markets.

Butler was buried at St. Paul's, Covent Garden.

TfL owns and operates the London Transport Museum in Covent Garden, a museum that conserves and explains London's transport heritage.

* January 8 – George Frideric Handel's opera Ariodante is premièred at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London.

* April 16 – Alcina, George Frideric Handel's Italian opera, premieres at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London.

* December 20 – The original Covent Garden Theatre in London is destroyed by a fire, along with most of the scenery, costumes and scripts.

* Covent Garden Market opens in London.

* March 5 – Fire destroys the Covent Garden Theatre in London.

Il trovatore was first performed in the US on 2 May 1855 at the recently-opened Academy of Music in New York while its UK premiere took place on 10 May 1855 at Covent Garden in London.

The Italian translation was first performed on 4 June 1867, not in Italy but in London at the Royal Italian Opera House, Covent Garden ( now the Royal Opera House ), where it was produced and conducted by Michael Costa – not as Verdi desired, but in a cut and altered form.

Turandot quickly spread to other venues: Rome ( Teatro Costanzi, April 29, four days after the Milan premiere ), Buenos Aires ( Teatro Colón, June 23 ), Dresden ( September 6, in German ), Venice ( La Fenice, September 9 ), Vienna ( October 14 ; Mafalda Salvatini in the title role ), Berlin ( November 8 ), New York ( Metropolitan Opera, November 16 ), Brussels ( La Monnaie, 17 December, in French ), Naples ( Teatro San Carlo, January 17, 1927 ), Parma ( February 12 ), Turin ( March 17 ), London ( Covent Garden, June 7 ), San Francisco ( September 19 ), Bologna ( October 1927 ), Paris ( March 29, 1928 ), Australia 1928, Moscow ( Bolshoi Theatre, 1931 ).

Well known locations for this kind of street performance include Covent Garden in London, and Faneuil Hall in Boston.

The nearest London Underground stations are Oxford Circus, Piccadilly Circus, Tottenham Court Road, Leicester Square and Covent Garden.

A significant 1958 Royal Opera House ( London ) production of Verdi's five-act Italian version of Don Carlos ( with Jon Vickers ) followed, along with a Macbeth in Spoleto in 1958 and a famous black-and-white Il trovatore with scenery and costumes by Filippo Sanjust at Covent Garden in 1964.

Berlioz travelled to London in the following year to stage it at Theatre Royal, Covent Garden but withdrew it after one performance owing to the hostile reception.

The plan included the comprehensive redevelopment of Covent Garden and creating a central London motorway loop.

The UK premiere took place on 14 May 1853 at what is now the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in London with Giovanni Matteo Mario as the Duke of Mantua and Giorgio Ronconi as Rigoletto.

A memorial service was held at St Paul's, Covent Garden ( the Actors ' Church ), London, where there is also a plaque.

The LSE is situated in the City of Westminster between Covent Garden, Aldwych and Temple Bar, bordering the City of London.

The nearest London Underground stations are Holborn, Temple and Covent Garden.

It may refer to the entertainment district around Leicester Square and Covent Garden ; to the shopping district centred on Oxford Street, Regent Street, and Bond Street ; or, less commonly, to the whole of that part of central London ( itself an area with no generally agreed boundaries ) which lies to the west of the City of London.