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Teatro Massimo
Teatro Massimo (Teatro Massimo Vittorio Emanuele), Palermo's opera house: largest in Italy, third in Europe after Paris and Vienna; opened 16 May 1897 with Verdi's Falstaff; designed by G. B. F. Basile, completed by son Ernesto; closed 1974-1997.
Teatro Nacional de São Carlos
The Teatro Nacional de São Carlos, also known as the National Theatre of São Carlos, is Portugal's national opera house in Lisbon's Chiado district, inaugurated in 1793.
Teatro Real
The Teatro Real, also known as Teatro Real de Madrid, is Spain's principal opera house, facing the Royal Palace in central Madrid and reopened in 1997.
The Cavern Club
The Cavern Club is a brick-arched cellar music venue on Mathew Street, Liverpool, opened 16 January 1957 as a jazz club. The Beatles played 292 shows there (1961-63); demolished 1973, rebuilt 1984, reopened 1991.
The Fillmore
The Fillmore is a historic general-admission music venue at 1805 Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, built as a dance hall in 1912 and made famous by Bill Graham's psychedelic-era concerts from December 1965; it reopened in 1994 under Live Nation, known for free posters and apples.
The Glasshouse, Gateshead
The Glasshouse, Gateshead (formerly Sage Gateshead) is a Foster + Partners-designed music venue and charity on the Tyne's south bank, opened in 2004, renamed from Sage in 2023, home of Royal Northern Sinfonia with a 1,700-seat main hall.
The Gorge Amphitheatre
The Gorge Amphitheatre, formerly Champs de Brionne Music Theatre, is an outdoor concert venue above the Columbia River in George, Washington, opened in 1986 by the Bryan winery family, capacity about 27,500, operated by Live Nation and a nine-time Pollstar Best Outdoor Music Venue winner.
The Haçienda
The Haçienda (FAC 51) was a Manchester nightclub on Whitworth Street West, opened 21 May 1982 by Factory Records and New Order, closed 28 June 1997, demolished 2002; birthplace of UK acid house and Madchester culture.
The Limelight
The Limelight: Peter Gatien's 1983–late-1990s New York nightclub in the deconsecrated Church of the Holy Communion, Chelsea; rave and Club Kids venue, distinct from his London, Chicago, Atlanta and Florida Limelights.
The O2
The O2 is a Greenwich Peninsula entertainment complex in London, housed under the former Millennium Dome (opened 1999, exhibition ran through 2000). Renamed in 2005 under a £6m/year O2 deal, the 20,000-capacity arena opened in 2007 and became a top-selling venue.
The O2 Arena
The O2 Arena (The O2) is a 20,000-capacity multi-purpose indoor arena on London's Greenwich Peninsula, opened in 2007 inside the former Millennium Dome and operated by AEG; it hosts over 200 events a year.
The Salt Shed
The Salt Shed is an indoor/outdoor music venue at 1357 N. Elston Ave., Chicago, built in the former Morton Salt warehouse (Graham, Anderson, Probst & White, 1929–1930); reopened 2022–2023 after a $50 million adaptive-reuse restoration, capacity about 3,500 indoors and 5,000 outdoors.
The Viper Room
The Viper Room, also known as Johnny Depp's joint, is a 21+ live music nightclub at 8852 Sunset Blvd on the Sunset Strip, West Hollywood, opened 14 August 1993; capacity about 250, site of River Phoenix's 1993 death, slated for redevelopment with a reimagined venue.
Toilet circuit
The toilet circuit is the UK's network of small, independent music venues, mostly pub-attached rooms under a few hundred capacity, where emerging bands build their first audiences; notable alumni include Coldplay, Oasis and Radiohead, and the tier faces closures and thin margins.
Town Hall (near Birmingham)
Town Hall (near Birmingham) covers Birmingham Town Hall, the Grade I listed 1834 Hansom and Welch concert hall in Victoria Square, restored 1996-2007, and separately Sutton Coldfield Town Hall, locally listed Grade A only.
Troubadour (West Hollywood, California)
The Troubadour, also known as Doug Weston's Troubadour, is a historic live music nightclub in West Hollywood, California, founded by Doug Weston in 1957 and known for launching careers.
Uber Eats Music Hall
Uber Eats Music Hall, formerly Verti Music Hall, is a 2,250-seat (up to 4,500 standing) AEG-run indoor arena at Uber Platz 2 in Berlin-Friedrichshain, opened 13 October 2018 and renamed in March 2024.
Vienna State Opera
The Vienna State Opera (Wiener Staatsoper) is Austria's national opera house on Vienna's Ringstrasse, opened in 1869, bombed in 1945, and reopened in 1955; it stages around 350 performances a season.
Walt Disney Concert Hall
Walt Disney Concert Hall is Frank Gehry's 2,265-seat stainless-steel concert hall in downtown Los Angeles, opened October 23, 2003. Born from Lillian Disney's 1987 $50 million gift, it houses the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Master Chorale, with Nagata Acoustics' vineyard auditorium and a 6,134-pipe Gehry-designed organ.
Wembley Arena
Wembley Arena, now the OVO Arena Wembley, is a Grade II listed 12,500-capacity indoor London concert venue beside Wembley Stadium. Opened 1934 as the Empire Pool for the British Empire Games, designed by Sir E Owen Williams.
Whisky a Go Go
The Whisky a Go Go is a 500-capacity rock nightclub at 8901 Sunset Blvd, West Hollywood, opened January 1964 by Elmer Valentine after a Paris discotheque. Birthplace of go-go dancing, home of The Doors' 1966 residency, Rock Hall inductee 2006.
Winterland Ballroom
Winterland Ballroom was a 5,400-seat San Francisco rock venue at Post and Steiner Streets, a 1928 ice rink run by Bill Graham from 1966 to 1978, site of The Last Waltz, the Sex Pistols' final US show, and 59 Grateful Dead concerts; demolished 1985.
Wintrust Arena
Wintrust Arena, opened October 2017 in Chicago's South Loop, is a 10,387-seat MPEA-owned event center, home of DePaul basketball and the Chicago Sky, distinct from the United Center.
Woodward Opera House
The Woodward Opera House is a restored 19th-century theater in downtown Mount Vernon, Ohio, built in 1851, closed in the 1920s, and reopened in 2019 after restoration.
Wright Opera House Block
Wright Opera House Block (Alma Opera House Block), an 1880 three-story cream-brick Italianate commercial block in Alma, Gratiot County, Michigan, built for lumberman Ammi W. Wright, with an opera house later used as a Masonic Temple; NRHP-listed 2013, NRIS 13000443.