Intimacy is further reinforced by emphasising the balcony fronts, with their white gold finish highlighted against the rich dark red interior. Working with Theatre Projects, a horseshoe plan combined with the dramatic vertical stacking of its seating balconies ensure that the audience is as close as possible to the stage. The auditorium creates a sense of intimacy with the performers. Deep gouges in the drum itself allow the audience to move horizontally at each of the balcony levels. The grand staircase, flowing from one side to the other around the drum, links all the lobby spaces. Vertical sliding glass panels moving the full length of the east façade allow the building with its café and restaurant to be fully opened up. Entered beneath a lower canopy, the transition from the Grand Plaza through the foyer into the auditorium is designed to heighten the drama of attending a performance. Organisationally, the Winspear creates a transparent, publicly welcoming series of lobby spaces, which wrap around the rich red glass drum of the 2,200-seat auditorium.
Beneath the canopy, a shaded pedestrian plaza creates a major new public space for Dallas.Īround the Opera House itself, angled off-grid under the canopy, there is the Annette Strauss Artists’ Square, with its outdoor performance space for an audience of 5000, a smaller outdoor performance space with a café terrace and the main entrance to the opera house with access to the car park below.
Responding to the Dallas climate, a generous solar canopy extends from the building, revealing below a fully glazed sixty foot high lobby. Part of the AT&T Performing Arts Center, the Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House in Dallas redefines the essence of an opera house for the twenty first century, breaking down barriers to make opera more accessible for a wider audience.
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