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The Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House is an opera house (one of four venues in the AT&T Performing Arts Center) located in the Arts District of downtown Dallas, Texas (USA).
Designed as a 21st-century reinterpretation of the traditional opera house, the Winspear seats 2,200 (with a capacity of 2,300) in a traditional horseshoe configuration.
The facility is the home of The Dallas Opera (which up until the 2008/2009 season performed at the Music Hall at Fair Park) and the Texas Ballet Theater. The AT&T Performing Arts Center also produces original programming and partners with local and national organizations to present a wide range of other cultural performances at the venue. These offerings include music, dance, Broadway shows, concerts and lectures.
The Winspear Opera House includes the Nancy Hamon Education and Recital Hall, a space that can be used for smaller performances seating audiences up to 200, as well as classes, rehearsals, meetings and events.
An opera house is a theatre building used for opera performances that consists of a stage, an orchestra pit, audience seating, and backstage facilities for costumes and set building. While some venues are constructed specifically for operas, other opera houses are part of larger performing arts centers.
The first public opera house came into existence in 1637 as the Teatro San Cassiano in Venice, Italy, in a country where opera has been popular through the centuries among ordinary people as well as wealthy patrons; it still has a large number of working opera houses. In contrast, there was no opera house in London when Henry Purcell was composing and the first opera house in Germany was built in Hamburg in 1678. Early United States opera houses served a variety of functions in towns and cities, hosting community dances, fairs, plays, and vaudeville shows as well as operas and other musical events.
In the 17th and 18th centuries, opera houses were often financed by rulers, nobles, and wealthy people who used patronage of the arts to endorse their political ambitions and social positions or prestige. With the rise of bourgeois and capitalist social forms in the 19th century, European culture moved away from its patronage system to a publicly supported system. In the 2000s, most opera and theatre companies raise funds from a combination of government and institutional grants, ticket sales, and private donations.
An opera house is a theatre building used primarily for opera performances.
As a specific venue, Opera House may refer to:
Opera House may also refer to:
The Opera House is a proscenium theatre in Wellington, New Zealand, located on Manners Street opposite Te Aro Park.
Construction work on the building, originally known as the "Grand Opera House", began in 1911. William Pitt, the architect, was based in Melbourne, Australia, and much of the work was overseen by local architect Albert Liddy. It is a brick building, with wooden floors. The Opera House has three levels: stalls, circle and grand circle. It has fine moldings and an ornate dome. On either side of the proscenium arch are two boxes – arranged on top of each other.
In 1977, it was restored by the State Insurance company, and for many years it was known as the State Opera House. Today, it is simply called "The Opera House".
In recent years, The Opera House was operated by the same Trust which ran the nearby St James Theatre.
The Opera House was used for the theatre scenes in Peter Jackson's 2005 film King Kong.
In July 2011 Positively Wellington Venues, an integration between the Wellington Convention Centre and the St James Theatre Trust, began managing this theatre along with five other venues in the capital city.
We asked our staff, volunteers, board members and patrons to tell us why they can't wait to experience live performing arts again in the Winspear Opera House. Find out more about the AT&T; Performing Arts Center's reopening plans here: https://www.attpac.org/support/
A night in the Winspear Opera House in under 60 seconds! Experience it in real time this weekend at If/Then Musical. Last minute tickets: http://goo.gl/KbDqGN Music: Cast of If/Then National Tour
The Moody Foundation Chandelier in the Winspear Opera House is missing the crowds almost as much as we are! Here is a special performance showcasing the amazing capabilities of our beloved chandelier. About the Moody Foundation Chandelier: As audiences enter McDermott Hall in the Winspear Opera House, the Moody Chandelier’s 318 L.E.D acrylic light rods are extended in a tapered position with the longest rod stretching 40 feet. The chandelier is lifted just prior to a performance so that audiences seated in the upper balconies have an unobstructed view. Once fully recessed, the chandelier mimics twinkling stars in the night sky. The dramatic fixture is one of the most photographed and talked-about features at the Center. The chandelier was named in honor of The Moody Foundation in 2013 fol...
Winspear Opera House Dallas, USA 2003 – 2009 The Dallas Opera Company is known for its excellence and innovation in theatre and this was reflected in the brief for its new home in Dallas’ Arts District. It has become a destination for a non-opera-going public, with a café, restaurant and bookshop that would be accessible throughout the day. The Winspear inverts the traditionally closed, hierarchical structure of the opera house to create a series of welcoming spaces that wrap around the rich red drum of the auditorium. The auditorium follows a horseshoe configuration, and can seat up to 2,200 people. Read more: https://www.fosterandpartners.com/projects/winspear-opera-house/
Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House Chandelier - J.R. Clancy, Inc., Mike Wood Consulting LLC, Carallon Limited, and Electronic Theatre Controls, Inc. 2010 ESTA Rock Our World Awards Winner The Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House chandelier is truly peerless, in both visual aesthetic and in function. J.R. Clancy, Inc., Mike Wood Consulting LLC, Carallon Limited, and Electronic Theatre Controls, Inc. collaborated on the one-of-a-kind centerpiece developed by architects Foster + Partners and Lighting Designer Claude Engle. A night at the opera becomes a night under the stars as audiences crane their necks to take in the chandelier's array of acrylic LED rods extending from the opera house ceiling. The effect is that of shooting stars coming down into the opera house, thanks to a...
Shen Yun Performing Arts presents colorful and exhilarating performances of classical Chinese dance and music. A performance by Shen Yun is a presentation of traditional Chinese culture as it once was: a study in grace, wisdom, and the virtues distilled from the five millennia of Chinese civilization. Experience China Before Communism. Visit our website: https://www.shenyun.org #ShenYun #ClassicalChineseDance
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The Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House is an opera house (one of four venues in the AT&T Performing Arts Center) located in the Arts District of downtown Dallas, Texas (USA).
Designed as a 21st-century reinterpretation of the traditional opera house, the Winspear seats 2,200 (with a capacity of 2,300) in a traditional horseshoe configuration.
The facility is the home of The Dallas Opera (which up until the 2008/2009 season performed at the Music Hall at Fair Park) and the Texas Ballet Theater. The AT&T Performing Arts Center also produces original programming and partners with local and national organizations to present a wide range of other cultural performances at the venue. These offerings include music, dance, Broadway shows, concerts and lectures.
The Winspear Opera House includes the Nancy Hamon Education and Recital Hall, a space that can be used for smaller performances seating audiences up to 200, as well as classes, rehearsals, meetings and events.