Covent Garden Theatre Opens
January 1, 1732
John Rich, flush with the profits of The Beggar's Opera, built a new theater on the piazza of Covent Garden and opened it with Congreve's The Way of the World. It would burn and be rebuilt twice. Generations later, after opera had colonized its stage, it became the Royal Opera House.
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Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.