Editing Opera House

[[File:Opera House ruins.jpg|thumb|300px|Ruins of the Opera House on Kobol.]]
The '''Opera House''' is an ancient structure in the [[City of the Gods]] on {{RDM|Kobol}}, along with other edifices such as the [[Forum]] and [[Temple]]. By the time of the arrival of the Colonials, the building has been reduced to a few scattered ruins. As a sketch of this area of the city is included in the [[Sacred Scrolls]], the building may have had religious significance.

==First Sight==

[[File:OperaHouse inside.jpg|thumb|Inside the Opera House {{TRS|Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II}}.]]
These are the ruins on Kobol near the crash site of [[Raptor 1]], which is forced to land on the planet after being damaged by a [[Cylon Raider (RDM)|Cylon Raider]] as it jumps into Kobol's orbit. Among the surviving passengers are {{callsign|Crashdown}}, [[Galen Tyrol]], [[Tarn]], [[Diana Seelix|Seelix]], [[Cally]], [[Socinus]], and [[Gaius Baltar]].

==Baltar and Three==

Shortly after the Raptor crash on Kobol, the virtual [[Virtual beings|Number Six]] in a white dress leads Baltar towards the ruins of the Opera House, where viewers and Baltar see the Opera House as it was, millennia ago. It is in that virtual Opera House that Six shows Baltar an image of what she claims is their future [[Hera Agathon|child]] {{TRS|Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II}}.

Much later a [[Number Three]] would have similar visions of the Opera House and the [[Final Five]] on the stage within. The Five appear as robed figures to her between death and [[resurrection (RDM)|resurrection]], but she cannot clearly remember their faces until she steps onto the centerpiece in the [[Temple of Five]] and has the vision for the final time {{TRS|Rapture}}.

==Roslin, Sharon, Hera, and Caprica-Six==

The Opera House is also seen in a [[Opera House Prophecy|dream or vision]] by President [[Laura Roslin]], induced by taking of [[chamalla]]. In the vision, [[Hera Agathon]] is scampering through the halls, pursued by both Roslin and her mother, {{callsign|Athena}}. But before either can reach her, Hera is picked up by a [[Number Six]] wearing a white dress, ending the dream {{TRS|Crossroads, Part I}}.

Just before the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] reaches the [[Ionian nebula]], Roslin visits the Opera House again while undergoing her [[Doloxan]] treatment (but still using chamalla as well) in [[sickbay]]. She and Sharon are still chasing Hera through the lobby. This time, however, when the Number Six picks the child up, she takes her through a set of doors. Roslin wakes up with to find that Sharon and Hera shared the vision, all three having awakened screaming simultaneously. Agathon and Roslin visit the captive [[Caprica-Six]], who confirms that she, too, had shared the dream.

At the Ionian nebula, Caprica-Six has yet another vision in the Opera House, where she, [[Gaius Baltar]], and baby Hera stand on the stage and see the robed Final Five standing on the balcony above them {{TRS|Crossroads, Part II}}.

It is prophesied by the rebel's Hybrid that the "dying leader shall know the truth of the Opera House" {{TRS|Faith}}.

Later, Sharon Agathon runs after Hera through ''Galactica''{{'|s}} hallways, where Hera runs into a Six known as [[Natalie]], thus mirroring what she saw in her visions of the Opera House. Fearing that Natalie will take away her daughter, like the Six in the dreams, Agathon shoots the other Cylon {{TRS|Guess What's Coming to Dinner?}}.

During the [[Battle of The Colony]], as Cylon Centurions board ''Galactica'', the vision is paralleled in actual events. Hera runs away from her parents when {{callsign|Karl Agathon}} is shot in the leg, and {{callsign|Athena}} abandons him to go after her. At the same time, Roslin leaves her post at the sickbay when she begins to have the Opera House dream again. Eventually, just as the vision showed, [[Caprica-Six]] and [[Gaius Baltar|Baltar]] find Hera and take her into what they perceive as the Opera House, which is, in actuality, ''Galactica''{{'|s}} [[CIC]]. The Final Five cylons stand above them on one of the higher levels, looking down upon Baltar and Caprica-Six, just as the vision foretold. {{TRS|Daybreak, Part II}}

== Notes==
*The [[w:Orpheum (Vancouver)|Orpheum Theatre]] in Vancouver (where ''Battlestar Galactica'' is produced) provides the setting of the Opera House interior that Gaius Baltar sees in his dream (Source: [[The Official Companion]]).
*In the vision of the Opera House shown to Baltar by Six, there are eight white drapes. When Number Three sees her vision of it, there are six drapes, with five glowing white-robed figures standing on the rightmost five (from her vantage point).
*While the [[Final Five]] in white robes are always depicted in the Opera House, in reality they probably never saw it or visited it, at least while it was intact. Their first trip to Kobol was by sub-light ship after the fall of both Kobol and the 13th Colony. If it was constructed before the departure of the 13th tribe, they may have seen photos or drawings.

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