Mumbai's Royal Opera House gets UNESCO heritage award
The restored Royal Opera House, located at Mumbai's Charni Road, has received the Award of Merit from the 2017 UNESCO Asia-Pacific Awards for Cultural Heritage Conservation. The building, which was closed to the public in 1993 and reopened in 2016, was restored by architect Abha Narain Lambah. The award programme hailed the building's "heroic rescue" under "generous private patronage". 