Victorian Opera Company Limited
street in Edinburgh, Scotland, UKwww.victorianopera.com.au
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Oct 13, 2026
speaker_10HOST
This place is incredible.
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Located at One Prince's Street, we have the Balmoral, or originally the North British Station Hotel, a 167-room palace hotel where they needed another competition to knock out another palace.
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Can you believe this? They had so many master architects in the 1800s while people were riding around on donkeys, saddling up to ride around town with wagons attached to the back.
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They hold these competitions to construct massive palaces that last forever.
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yet they are supposedly built at the exact same time as the ones in the USA, like we've been told today.
speaker_10HOST
So let's just keep this in mind as we continue.
speaker_10HOST
So then we go over to the assembly rooms, located on 54 George Street, also in Edinburgh.
speaker_10HOST
And it's just building after building in this city.
speaker_2HOST
So let's just keep this in mind as we continue.
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So then we go over to the Assembly Rooms, located on 54 George Street, also in Edinburgh.
speaker_2HOST
And it's just building after building in this city, where they tell us that the building was designed by a guy named John Henderson.
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And this guy won a competition in 1781.
James OakleyGUEST
So I pretty much on their coattails kind of left New Zealand and arrived in Edinburgh probably about six months later and did my first Edinburgh Festival in 2001, I think it was.
James OakleyGUEST
I ended up working at the assembly rooms on George Street back in the day when they had the music hall and some other things and ended up doing some festival work that then took me on to other places.
James OakleyGUEST
I did a bunch of festival work around Europe.
James OakleyGUEST
I ended up living in a tiny little place called Wexford in Ireland.
Guy VickerstaffGUEST
Oh.
Guy VickerstaffGUEST
Um, probably a, probably a nice bar on George Street here in Edinburgh.
Guy VickerstaffGUEST
Um, kind of one of those old, old bank buildings that have been turned into nice, nice, uh, nice bars, kind of quiet.
Guy VickerstaffGUEST
And, um, and I'd probably, I'd probably order a pint of Guinness, I think.
Guy VickerstaffGUEST
Yes
Adam JenningsHOST
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Adam JenningsHOST
in one of those beautiful bars onto George Street.
Guy VickerstaffGUEST
Yep.
James ShakeshaftHOST
Accept no substitutes.
James ShakeshaftHOST
There's like Adderstall House, Kingsway London, George Street, Edinburgh, York Street, Manchester, St Andrew's Crescent, Cardiff, Chichester Street, Belfast, or through any bookseller.
Alasdair Beckett-KingHOST
I've got to say those street names are all confusing.
Alasdair Beckett-KingHOST
It's all Chichester Street, Belfast, York Street, Manchester.
Aaron PatrickHOST
Whereabouts was that?
Johann GoreeHOST
In Edinburgh in the Assembly Rooms, so up on George Street.
Johann GoreeHOST
So, yeah.
Johann GoreeHOST
Was that Saturday night or Sunday? Sunday.
William ZachsGUEST
There was, for an example, an event on the 11th of January in 1787, a large ball called the Caledonian Hunt Ball.
William ZachsGUEST
This was the big social event of the year that opened the inaugural event at the Assembly Rooms, our George Street, present day, festival-filled Assembly Rooms.
William ZachsGUEST
Burns was almost certainly there.
William ZachsGUEST
Raeburn very likely was there.
Yotam OttolenghiGUEST
And Neil has been spending many months here, forging relationship with suppliers, getting to know what there is.
Yotam OttolenghiGUEST
And so it was a combination of wanting to come here anyway, Neil, and finding this great site on George Street that just worked really, really well, that was suggested to us.
Yotam OttolenghiGUEST
Everything came together in this kind of magical moment, and we decided to go for it.
Rosalind ErskineHOST
And so it's on George Street.
Rosalind ErskineHOST
Do you have a name for it yet? Well, it's
Yotam OttolenghiGUEST
just called Ottolenghi, yeah.