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.

* Covent Garden Market opens in London.

* New Covent Garden Market, a major fruit and vegetable wholesale market, resited from Covent Garden in 1974.

By the end of the 1960s traffic congestion was causing problems, and in 1974 the market relocated to the New Covent Garden Market about three miles ( 5 km ) south-west at Nine Elms.

In 1979, Covent Garden Market reopened as a retail centre ; in 2010, the largest Apple Store in the world opened in The Piazza.

The inclusion of the adjacent old Floral Hall, previously a part of the old Covent Garden Market, created a new and extensive public gathering place.

The following year the market relocated to its new site, New Covent Garden Market, about three miles ( 5 km ) south-west at Nine Elms.

There are street performances at Covent Garden Market every day of the year, except Christmas Day.

Much of the land now covered with housing was formerly taken by a number of family-run market gardening businesses growing fruit or flowers for the Brighton Market or Covent Garden in London.

In the third series they built a poor-quality, movie-themed animatronic wax museum from mannequins and charged tourists for entry, as well as competing as street mimes in Covent Garden Market.

He hoped to transfer Covent Garden Market to the site, but the local residents successfully opposed that plan.

The inclusion of the adjacent old Floral Hall, long a part of the old Covent Garden Market but in general disrepair for many years, into the actual opera house created a new and extensive public gathering place.

Francis worked his way up the ranks at Covent Garden Market and eventually became a porter.

* New Covent Garden Market

Black grapes from Frenchester Nurseries and the famous Carterton tomatoes were sold at Covent Garden Market.

In the High Street there are a number of shops including a Co-op supermarket, a butcher selling own-flock and local produce, a greengrocer selling produce from New Covent Garden Market, a chemist, a flower shop, a post office, an art gallery, a used-car dealer, a cappuccino bar, a beauty salon, a Chinese take-away and a kebab shop, as well as " Twelve ", the church office / meeting-room.

New Covent Garden Market is the largest wholesale fruit, vegetable and flower market in the UK.

The Market is run by a statutory corporation, Covent Garden Market Authority ( CGMA ), owned by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

The Market is so called because it transferred directly from its previous location at Covent Garden in central London.

* New Covent Garden Market website.

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** London ( CFPL ): Galleria Mall, and Covent Garden Market.

It is primarily an industrial area, dominated by Battersea Power Station, railway lines, a major Royal Mail sorting office and the New Covent Garden Market.