Dubai Opera, a 2,000-seat performing arts venue shaped like a dhow, opened in the city's Opera District with a Plácido Domingo gala.
Dubai Opera opened on 31 August 2016 in The Opera District, Downtown Dubai, with a performance by Plácido Domingo[2][3]
It was developed by Emaar Properties; construction began April 2013, and it was designed by Atkins to resemble a dhow[2]
The multi-format venue seats about 2,000 and converts between theatre, concert hall and event hall using hydraulic lifts and seating wagons[2]
The first season, running to the end of 2016, listed 49 performances including José Carreras, The Pearl Fishers, The Barber of Seville and Slava's Snowshow[2][3]
Stage engineering was by ThyssenKrupp and the main contractor was Consolidated Contractors Company[2]
已排期可信度 75%24天后Pudong's[1] English government news page says the "Shanghai Grand Opera House will open on Oct 17 on the east bank of the Huangpu River", a fixed announced date.
The 146,000-square-metre building in Expo Culture Park, designed by ECADI with Snohetta as a spiralling Chinese folding fan, holds the 2,000-seat Harmony Hall, the 1,200-seat Soar Theatre and the 1,000-seat Open Stage, 4,200 seats in all. The opening season runs 47 productions and 82 performances through 20 February 2027.
Sydney Opera House, Bennelong Point, Sydney NSW, Australia
已确认可信度 83%52.9年前Happened as dated, per the source[1]: "the Sydney Opera House was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II."
Queen Elizabeth II officially opened the Sydney Opera House, capping fourteen years of construction that ran a decade late and far over its original budget.
预估可信度 70%10.7年前Wikipedia[1] gives the year only - "Founded in 2015 by chef Julien Royer" - with no month or day, so the pin takes that year's last day.
Julien Royer opened Odette in 2015 in the National Gallery Singapore, the former Supreme Court and City Hall converted into a museum, and named it after his grandmother. It became the highest-ranked restaurant in Singapore on the Asia's 50 Best list and one of the city's three-star addresses, cooking a French menu built around named producers.
已排期可信度 75%3年后The report states the line "is expected to start operations on 9-9-2029, the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) announced", a fixed announced day chosen to echo the metro's own 9-9-2009 opening.[1]
The 30 km Blue Line adds 14 stations across Dubai Silicon Oasis, Academic City, International City, Dubai Creek Harbour, Mirdif and Al Warqa, with 15.5 km of underground track and 14.5 km elevated. The RTA awarded the construction contract to a consortium of MAPA, LIMAK and CRRC in December 2024 and expects 28 trains to carry 200,000 riders a day by 2030, rising to 320,000 by 2040.
已确认可信度 87%4.2年前Happened as dated, per the source[1]: "The center had a trial opening in March-May 2022 before it officially opened on 2 July 2022."
OMA's Taipei Performing Arts Center, a sphere-studded venue perched above the Shilin Night Market, officially opened after a decade of delayed construction.
已确认可信度 88%79天后Abu Dhabi's Department of Culture and Tourism named 11 December 2026 in a joint announcement with the Guggenheim[1] Foundation in late July 2026; the foundation's own press release carries the date.
Twenty years after it was announced, the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi opens on 11 December 2026 as the largest museum in the Guggenheim family - about 80,000 square metres, against roughly a quarter of that in New York. Frank Gehry arranged it around a single tall atrium with galleries threaded between ten sculptural cones, nine sheathed in stainless steel mesh and one in onyx and glass, so the roofline reads as a cluster of towers from across the Culture District.
Dubai World Central, Dubai, United Arab EmiratesDubai Airports
已排期可信度 78%6.3年后Given as scheduled, per Dubai's Crown Prince and the source[1]: "Phase 1 scheduled to begin operations in 2032."
The first phase of Dubai's US$35BN Al Maktoum International Airport expansion, ultimately sized to handle more than 260 million passengers a year and become the world's largest airport.
139, Turtle Creek Boulevard, Design District, Dallas, Dallas County, Texas, 75207, United StatesPunk Noir
已确认可信度 89%113天前Two Dallas outlets give the same day. FSR magazine[1] (18 May 2026) and CultureMap[2] Dallas both put the opening on Tuesday 2 June 2026 at 139 Turtle Creek Blvd, and 2 June 2026 is indeed a Tuesday. The concept had been trailed since September 2025 as opening "in early 2026", so the June date is the firm one rather than the early estimate.
A 20-course, $295 tasting menu staged as theatre: 26 diners at a time move from a graffiti lounge to a projection-mapped communal room, past the open kitchen and into a chandeliered dining room, two or three seatings a night.
Olympia, Hammersmith Road, Kensington, London, EnglandYoo Capital
已确认可信度 90%100天前Olympia's[1] own press release, headed "The all-new Olympia opens", gives 15 June 2026 as the opening day of the transformed destination.
The Grade II-listed west London exhibition halls reopened as a mixed-use district with rooftop restaurants, offices, two hotels and the 3,800-capacity British Airways ARC music venue, which launched the following night. The GBP 1.3 billion transformation, designed by Heatherwick Studio and SPPARC, opens the 14-acre site to the public for the first time in 140 years; the 1,575-seat British Airways Theatre follows in 2027.
Theatercaféen, Klingenberggata, Vika, Sentrum, Oslo 0161, NorwayTheatercaféen
预估可信度 75%125.7年前The article states "Theatercaféen opened in 1900" without a month or day, so the pin sits on that year's last day.[1]
Theatercaféen opened in 1900 across the street from Oslo's National Theatre and became the room where Norwegian actors, writers and politicians ate after curtain - a Viennese-style café with a gallery, caricatures of its regulars on the walls and live music from a balcony.
