endeavour, it was gutted by a fire in 1994, and was closed for over five years, but it's now firmly
... opened in 1837. The first opera to be staged was Donizetti's take on the tale of Henry VIII growing tired of his second wife Anne Boleyn, and seeking to replace her with Jane Seymour. Anna Bolena was a big draw in the mid-nineteenth century. Verdi was to become ...