- published: 08 Apr 2013
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An opera house is a theatre building used for opera performances that consists of a stage, an orchestra pit, audience seating, and backstage facilities for costumes and set building. While some venues are constructed specifically for operas, other opera houses are part of larger performing arts centers.
The first public opera house was the Teatro San Cassiano in Venice, Italy, which opened in 1637. Italy, where opera has been popular through the centuries among ordinary people as well as wealthy patrons, still has a large number of opera houses. When Henry Purcell was composing, there was no opera house in London. The first opera house in Germany was built in Hamburg in 1678. Early U.S. opera houses served a variety of functions in towns and cities, hosting community dances, fairs, plays, and vaudeville shows as well as operas and other musical events.
In the 17th and 18th centuries, opera houses were often financed by rulers, nobles, and wealthy people who used patronage of the arts to endorse their political ambitions and social positions or prestige. With the rise of bourgeois and capitalist social forms in the 19th century, European culture moved away from its patronage system to a publicly supported system. In the 2000s, most opera and theaters raise funds from a combination of government and institutional grants, ticket sales and, to a smaller extent, private donations.
I need some medication,
Some glue to fix my heart
I need someone
To clean this mess inside my head
I'd like an explanation,
Oh please tell me why
I hate the fact you've left,
You've left me wondering
I can't appreciate
The fact that you went away
The minutes that have passed since then
Please fall in love again
I don't know what to do today
Tomorrow's the same as yesterday
I stay in bed 'till three o'clock
Don't care about waking up
You make me feel like giving in
I'm giving up I'm caving in
I need someone
To put some sense back in my head
The way I feel today,
I might as well be dead
I still can't believe the things you've said to me
About what we had,