Opera house as they sing. This occurs in the Met's productions of operas such as "Aida" and "Tales of Hoffman". London's Royal Opera House, which was remodeled in the late 1990s, retained the original 1858 auditorium at its core, but added completely new backstage and wing spaces as well as an additional performance space and public areas. Much the same happened in the remodeling of Milan's La Scala opera house between 2002 and 2004. Although stage, lighting and other production aspects of opera houses often make use of the latest technology, traditional opera houses have not used sound reinforcement systems with microphones
La Scala, Fortitude Valley Wickham Terrace but continued to live in the house, renting out the ground floor to another doctor. The house and surgery were owned and occupied by a number of doctors over the years before being turned into flats in the 1970s. The original stables were demolished and a small addition was built on the rear of the house. In 1980 the property was bought by Brisbane architect Robert Riddel who restored it and renamed it "La Scala". The ground floor, which was enlarged in the 1980s, housed an architectural practice for some years until 1992 and is now divided into