The Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House is the Opera House at the AT&T; Performing Arts Center, located in the Arts District of downtown Dallas, Texas (USA). It is one of four venues comprised by the AT&T; Performing Arts Center which was dedicated October 12, 2009. It is designed as a 21st century reinterpretation of the traditional horseshoe configuration and will seat 2,200 (with capacity up to 2,300). Groundbreaking was held in October 2006....
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The Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House is the Opera House at the AT&T; Performing Arts Center, located in the Arts District of downtown Dallas, Texas (USA). It is one of four venues comprised by the AT&T; Performing Arts Center which was dedicated October 12, 2009. It is designed as a 21st century reinterpretation of the traditional horseshoe configuration and will seat 2,200 (with capacity up to 2,300). Groundbreaking was held in October 2006.
Designed by Foster and Partners, led by Lord Norman Foster (the 1999 Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate - the architecture equivalent of the Nobel Prize), Winspear Opera was made possible in part by a $42-million gift from Margot and Bill Winspear, for whom the it is named. The London firm Sound Space developed the acoustical design of the opera house and the acoustics will be engineered specifically for performances of opera and musical theater. The stages are also be equipped with appropriate flooring for performances of ballet and other...
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