The Liceu opera house in Barcelona was designed by Miquel Garriga i Roca in 1847, rebuilt by Josep Oriol Mestres in 1862 and rebuilt again in 1999 by Ignasi de Solà-Morales. The privately funded society handed ownership to the Fundació in 1994. The infobox gives opening on April 4, 1847, but the text says construction began on April 11, 1845.
The article describes an Italian horseshoe-shaped auditorium with romantic, sumptuous 19th-century ornamentation. It mentions stalls of iron and red velvet and gilded, polychrome plaster moldings. The auditorium is up to 108 feet (33 m) long and 89 feet (27 m) wide, with five balconies and 2,292 seats.
A fire struck in 1861, an anarchist bombing in 1893 killed about twenty, and a fire in 1994 led to the reopening on October 7, 1999. It is an active opera house with its own orchestra and choir. The article gives no hours or ticket details.
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