The Cairo Opera House Theatres

Main Hall

The Main Hall of the Cairo Opera House is the largest, most beautiful and most sophisticated of all theatres in Egypt. Designed to seat 1,200 spectators, the hall rises to four levels, with the stalls on the main floor and three upper circles.

Guests of honour are led directly from the entrance hall to the presidential box on the third level by an elevator. The seats in the stalls rise to the projection and control room equipped for the screening of 16 and 35-millimetre films or for the installation of TV-cameras.

Circles and loges are elegantly designed and ensure an excellent view of the stage. The Main Hall provides the most comprehensive and advanced stage facilities in Africa and the Middle East. The spacious stage with its orchestra pit can be configured in various ways and sizes so as to accommodate opera, ballet, and orchestral performances.

It is fully equipped with lighting systems and technical devices for any required transformation. Backstage, there are dressing rooms, storage rooms, loading docks for stage settings and rooms for machinery / technical equipment.

Main hall plan