Operaen, Copenhagen
Concert Halls/Arenas, Performing Arts Centre
audiotrack
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Ekvipagemestervej 10, København K, Denmark
phone
+45 33 69 69 77
groups
1500
chair
200
In August 2000, the A.P. Møller and Chastine Mc-Kinney Møller Foundation donated an opera house to the Danish people. On 16 October 2001, the opera house project was presented to the public and construction work began shortly after on the island of Holmen in Copenhagen Harbour. On 1 October 2004, the opera house was handed over to the Danish State and will be administered by the Royal Danish Theatre. The Copenhagen Opera House will open with a Royal Command Performance on 15 January 2005. The first opera performance will be Verdi’s Aïda on 26 January 2005, and the first ballet performance will be Three Companies – Three Works on 16 January 2005.
The opera totals 41,000 sq.metres. Five of the fourteen storeys are subterranean. The auditorium and foyer totals 7,000 sq. metres of the total 41,000 sq. metres. The building has more than 1000 rooms including several rehearsal rooms for the opera and ballet and a large orchestral rehearsal room. The main stage of the opera seats an audience of approx. 1500, and Takkelloftet, the experimental stage, seats an audience of approx. 200.
The stage floor of the main stage and the five adjacent stages are constructed following a modular design where the individual elements can be mechanically wheeled from one stage to another to facilitate dynamic alternation between different opera or ballet set designs. The opera also features a custom made ballet floor which is mechanically elevated from below prior to a ballet performance.
The opera house is clad with southern German Jura Gelb limestone, and the foyer features Sicilian Perlatino marble. The wall of the auditorium facing the foyer is clad with maple wood, and the ceiling in the main auditorium is adorned with 105,000 sheets of 24 carat gold leaf.
The A.P. Møller and Chastine Mc-Kinney Møller Foundation has sought to create a world-class opera house and have contracted leading experts within stage technology and acoustics such as Henning Larsen Tegnestue A/S, Rambøll A/S, Theatre Planning and Technology Ltd., Ove Arup & Partners and E. Pihl & Søn A/S.
The opera totals 41,000 sq.metres. Five of the fourteen storeys are subterranean. The auditorium and foyer totals 7,000 sq. metres of the total 41,000 sq. metres. The building has more than 1000 rooms including several rehearsal rooms for the opera and ballet and a large orchestral rehearsal room. The main stage of the opera seats an audience of approx. 1500, and Takkelloftet, the experimental stage, seats an audience of approx. 200.
The stage floor of the main stage and the five adjacent stages are constructed following a modular design where the individual elements can be mechanically wheeled from one stage to another to facilitate dynamic alternation between different opera or ballet set designs. The opera also features a custom made ballet floor which is mechanically elevated from below prior to a ballet performance.
The opera house is clad with southern German Jura Gelb limestone, and the foyer features Sicilian Perlatino marble. The wall of the auditorium facing the foyer is clad with maple wood, and the ceiling in the main auditorium is adorned with 105,000 sheets of 24 carat gold leaf.
The A.P. Møller and Chastine Mc-Kinney Møller Foundation has sought to create a world-class opera house and have contracted leading experts within stage technology and acoustics such as Henning Larsen Tegnestue A/S, Rambøll A/S, Theatre Planning and Technology Ltd., Ove Arup & Partners and E. Pihl & Søn A/S.
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