Her Majesty's Theatre Adelaide

Theatre in Grote Street, opened as Rickards Tivoli Theatre, 6 September 1913, seating 2160. Architects: Williams and Good. Renamed Prince of Wales Theatre 1920. Renamed Tivoli Theatre 1930. Remodelled to seat 1200 and reopened as Her Majesty's Theatre 1962. Remodelled and reopened as Opera Theatre, March 1979. Renamed Her Majesty's Theatre 1988.

After the death of Harry Rickards in 1911, Hugh D. Mclntosh bought his Tivoli vaudeville circuit and formed Harry Rickards Tivoli Theatres Ltd to lease an unfinished theatre in Adelaide. The owners intended to call it the Princess Theatre but when McIntosh leased the building in 1913 he decided to name it Rickards Tivoli Theatre. It had a 25·9-metre-wide four-storey frontage and a stage that was 24.3 metres wide, 18·9 metres deep and 15·9 metres high to the grid. The original proscenium was narrow at 9 metres. The auditorium - equipped with an early example of mechanical ventilation - seated 622 in the stalls, 238 in the dress circle and 1300 in a deep gallery. 

From 1920, when the building was renamed the Prince of Wales Theatre, various entrepreneurs used it, presenting mostly plays. It was in the Fullers' circuit until 1929. The theatre returned to variety as the Tivoli in 1930. From 1940 Adelaide Repertory Theatre leased the Tivoli for 14 years, staging its own productions and letting it to commercial entrepreneurs. Then the owners leased it to a sporting club.

J. C. Williamson's bought the rather derelict Tivoli before closing its own Theatre Royal in 1959. The Firm had the interior remodelled in the nondescript functional style of the time to produce a two-level auditorium. The theatre reopened as Her Majesty's Theatre. Upon the demise of J.C. Williamson's in 1976, Her Majesty's came under threat of redevelopment, although it was the city's only medium capacity theatre and it was needed for the Adelaide Festival of Arts. The South Australian government bought the theatre and remodelled the interior to be reminiscent of Scandinavian modern style in its combination of simplicity and adequate richness. It reopened in March 1979 as the Opera Theatre and housed the State Opera of South Australia until 1988.