Opera House

Ruins of the Opera House on Kobol.

The Opera House is an ancient structure in the City of the Gods on 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

Inside the Opera House (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 as it jumps into Kobol's orbit. Among the surviving passengers are Crashdown, Galen Tyrol, Tarn, Seelix, Cally, Socinus, and Gaius Baltar.

Baltar and Three

Shortly after the Raptor crash on Kobol, the virtual Number Six 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 child (Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II).

Much later a Number Three would have similar visions of the Opera House and the Final Five within (Rapture).

Roslin, Sharon, Hera, and Caprica-Six

The Opera House is also seen in a 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, Sharon Agathon. But before either can reach her, Hera is picked up by a Number Six wearing a white dress, ending the dream (Crossroads, Part I).

Just before the 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 (possibly Virtual Baltar since the real Baltar is not seen waking from the vision), and baby Hera see the robed Final Five (Crossroads, Part II).

It is prophesied by the rebel's Hybrid that the "dying leader shall know the truth of the Opera House" (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 Cylon (Guess What's Coming to Dinner?).

Notes

• The 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 (providing seven spaces for the significant seven?). 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).

Re-imagined Series definition: a hallucinogenic plant used in religious ceremonies and medical treatments, see: chamalla