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Music venue in Toronto, Canada From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Opera House is a music venue in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is one of the city's most historic performing venues, opening in 1909.[1] It has also been a cinema and a live theatre venue. It is located at 735 Queen Street East, east of downtown in the Riverdale neighbourhood.
![]() The Opera House in 2015. | |
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Former names | La Plaza Theatre Acropolis Dundas Cinema Ellas |
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Address | 735 Queen Street E Toronto ON M4M 1H1 |
Location | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
Coordinates | 43.658949°N 79.348752°W |
Type | Theater/Music Venue |
Capacity | 950 (680 Main Floor and 270 Balcony) |
Construction | |
Built | 1909 |
Opened | 1909 |
Website | |
theoperahousetoronto.com |
The building opened in 1909 as the La Plaza Theatre, an Edwardian vaudeville stage. Seating almost 700, it was the main entertainment venue in the primarily working-class neighbourhood. As films eclipsed vaudeville, the theatre was turned into a cinema, continuing to use the name La Plaza Theatre until the 1960s, and later under a series of other names.[2][3]
As multiplexes made large single screen venues no longer viable as cinemas, it became a performing arts venue. In the late 1980s, it was home to the successful gospel musical Mama, I Want to Sing!. In the early 1990s, it was renamed "The Opera House" and became a music venue. It has been thing of lore that in 1996, Baby Jane, including band members: Steve Angel, Cam Clark, James Dunning, Kevin Karmody and Nick Pickett played, and won a band competition that is marked as the launching point to their illustrious legacy.
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