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Backlash to the music hall tradition
- The Leeds Grand Theatre and Opera House was built in 1878 in a backlash to the music hall tradition which was thought by ‘polite society’ to lower the tone of entertainment via the sort of humour presented in these pub-based establishments.
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It was built as a complex in three parts: the theatre, a set of six shops and Assembly Rooms, all facing onto New Briggate, in High Victorian style of red brick with stone dressings and a slate roof, the whole being a Grade II* listed building.
Nov 18, 2022 · Leeds Grand Theatre opened on Mon 18 November 1878 with a triumphant production of Much Ado About Nothing. Designed by architect George Corson (assisted by James Robertson Watson), The Grand was truly a ‘labour of love’ which broke records and theatre norms upon opening.
Built in 1878, reportedly following an off-the-cuff remark by Prince Albert that Leeds needed a good theatre as “nothing was more calculated to promote culture and raise the tone of the people”, Leeds Grand Theatre, or the ‘Grand Old Lady of Leeds’ (as she is fondly known), is the most magnificent of leading ladies.
Saturday 18 November 2023 marks 145 years since Leeds Grand Theatre first opened its doors. What started as a royal suggestion to bring culture to Leeds has, over the years, become an incomparable local landmark and checkpoint for the arts.
T he Leeds Grand Theatre was built at a cost of £62,000 and was designed by the architect George Corson. The Theatre opened with a production of 'Much Ado About Nothing' on Monday the 18th of November 1878.
1841. Well described by Christopher Brereton as ‘a one-off theatre for the architect, but probably the finest of its size in Britain’, the Grand is a building of metropolitan stature, conceived to a scale rarely even planned, let alone executed on this side of the English Channel.
Apr 26, 2005 · A major Leeds landmark, the Leeds Grand Theatre, is in the middle of a full renovation and the creation of a permanent home for Opera North. Julie Langford of BBC Radio Leeds was invited...
