The place
Covent Garden Lyric Theatre founded in 1732, home of the Royal Opera and the Royal Ballet. The current building, the third on this site after two fires, dates from 1858 and was extensively renovated in the 1990s. The building is protected as a Grade I listed monument.
Films shot here
Billy Elliot (2000)
Directed by Stephen Daldry
The Fifth Element (1997)
Directed by Luc Besson
Robert le Diable (2012)
Directed by Sue Judd