Royal Opera House Mumbai

The Royal Opera House, Mumbai is widely touted as the city's Cultural Crown Jewel and India's only surviving Opera House. Having been extensively restored and reopened in October 2016, we are a performance space and cultural venue par excellence and is one of the last standing Baroque structures in Mumbai today. The Maharaja of Gondal, Shri Vikramsinhji, bought the Opera House in 1952. His son, Shri Jyotendrasinhji, commissioned conservation architect, Abha Narain Lambah to restore the Theatre in in 2010 which was ably supervised by its Hon director Ashish Doshi. The Royal Opera House Mumbai was included on the 2012 World Monuments Watch to raise awareness about its history and significance, and support preservation efforts. Royal Opera House Mumbai eventually won an Award of Merit in the 2017 UNESCO Asia-Pacific Awards for Cultural Heritage Conservation for this mammoth task of resonation.