Guangzhou Grand Theatre

Guangzhou Grand Theater is like two pieces of stone washed by the Pearl River water. It has a peculiar shape, complex and changeable, full of fantastic ideas. Since its official opening, the theatre has received more than 600 high-level performances at home and abroad by June 2012, including the opening performance Turandot, the world classic opera Tosca, the Chinese version of the world classic musical Mamma Mia, Carreras, one of the Three Tenors in the world, Yo Yo Ma, the world-famous cellist, and Luo, the world conductor of Guangzhou for the second time Lin 61, Mazer et al.

Guangzhou Grand Theatre

Guangzhou Opera House, located at No.1 Zhujiang West Road, Tianhe District, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, is one of the landmark buildings on the new central axis of Guangzhou. It is located in Tianhe Central Business District, adjacent to Guangdong Provincial Museum and Guangzhou Library in the East, the US Consulate General in the west, the Pearl River and Haixinsha in the south, and Guangzhou International Financial Center in the north.

Guangzhou Grand Theater covers a total area of 42000 square meters, with a building area of 73000 square meters and a total height of 43.1 meters. It has an opera hall, an experimental theater, a contemporary art museum and three rehearsal halls (Opera rehearsal hall, Ballet Rehearsal Hall and Symphony rehearsal hall). Designed by Zaha Hadid, a British Iraqi designer, Guangzhou Grand Theatre is known as "round double gravel". Its main building is "double gravel" with black and white and gray tone.

In September 2013, Guangzhou Grand Theater won the "outstanding award of FIDIC's Centennial major construction project".

In 2014, Guangzhou Grand Theater was named "the top ten opera houses in the world" by USA today.

Evolution of construction

In 1999, Guangzhou Grand Theater project was established.

In October 2003, Guangzhou Grand Theater won the bid.

On January 18, 2005, the foundation of Guangzhou Grand Theater project was laid.

In August 2006, Guangzhou Grand Theater officially started.

On January 23, 2007, the main structure of the experimental theater of Guangzhou Grand Theater was capped; on April 21, the basement structure of Guangzhou Grand Theater was completed; on October 8, the Opera Hall of Guangzhou Grand Theater was capped; on December 15, the steel structure of the Opera Hall of Guangzhou Grand Theater was capped.

On September 15, 2009, the main structure division of Guangzhou Grand Theater passed the acceptance.

On March 10, 2010, the curtain wall project of Guangzhou Grand Theater passed the acceptance; on March 27-28, the stage machinery, lighting, audio and video system project of Guangzhou Grand Theater passed the acceptance; on March 30, 2010, the fire control of Guangzhou Grand Theater passed the acceptance; on April 2, the overall completion acceptance of Guangzhou Grand Theater; on May 9, Guangzhou Grand Theater officially put into operation.

Architectural pattern

Overview

Guangzhou Grand Theater covers a total area of 42000 square meters, with a building area of 73000 square meters and a total height of 43.1 meters. It has an opera hall, an experimental theater, a contemporary art museum and three rehearsal halls (Opera rehearsal hall, Ballet Rehearsal Hall and Symphony rehearsal hall), as well as supporting facilities such as ticketing center, parking garage and restaurant.

The building structure of Guangzhou Grand Theater adopts "cast steel structure". The facade is a three-way oblique folded plate reticulated shell, which is composed of more than 5000 pieces of glass and 75000 pieces of stone. It has the same size and different shapes.

Opera Hall

There are 1804 seats in the Opera Hall of Guangzhou Grand Theater, including 1687 seats and 117 music pool seats. The three-layer auditorium is in the shape of "hands embracing" and "stars all over the sky" ceiling. The Opera Hall has asymmetric structure, streamlined walls and special grooves, which are convenient for the sound effect.

The Opera Hall adopts the process layout form of "pin" shaped stage commonly used in the world, which is divided into four parts: main stage, left and right stage and back stage. The whole stage axis is 74 meters wide, 46 meters deep, 18 meters wide and 12 meters high.

The stage lighting system of the Opera Hall of Guangzhou Grand Theater mainly includes: lighting control system, network transmission system, lighting system, dimming system, pipeline auxiliary materials, sound reinforcement system, main sound reinforcement system, auxiliary sound reinforcement system, monitoring system of stage and control room, auditorium and effect sound system in stage.

Experimental theater

The experimental theater of Guangzhou Grand Theater is a small theater with 443 seats (including 44 seats symmetrically distributed on the second floor). The experimental theater is a rectangular building with a width of 18 meters and a length of 26 meters. Experimental theater can meet the needs of conference hall, end stage, extended stage, center stage, T-stage and other forms of performance.

The form of stage and auditorium can be changed by stage machinery inside the experimental theater. Two kinds of lifting platforms are set under the stage to change the form of stage in a short time. All seats are fixed on the air cushion trolley, which can change the layout of audience seats with the change of stage form.

Contemporary Art Museum

The Contemporary Art Museum of Guangzhou Grand Theatre is a cross-border and diversified art exhibition hall jointly built by Guangzhou Grand Theatre and Guangdong Art Museum.

Ballet Rehearsal Hall

Guangzhou Grand Theater has three rehearsal halls, namely opera rehearsal hall, Ballet Rehearsal Hall and Symphony rehearsal hall, with a total area of more than 1100 square meters. Among them, the Ballet Rehearsal Hall is the teaching venue of children's ballet company of Guangzhou Grand Theater.

Architectural features

Guangzhou Grand Theatre is designed by Zaha Hadid, a British Iraqi designer. Its shape is known as "round double gravel", and its main building is "double gravel" in black and white and gray.

There are no vertical columns or walls in Guangzhou Grand Theater. The irregular geometric design makes the appearance of "stone" distorted and inclined. Only the outer surface has 64 faces, 41 corners and 104 edges.

The audio-visual effect of Guangzhou Grand Theater is designed by Marshall, an acoustician and winner of the Sabin prize, which is the highest prize in acoustics. The irregular "hands embracing" stand is adopted to distinguish it from the horseshoe, square or rectangular auditorium used in most theaters. "Embracing with both hands" means that the rising part on both sides of the pool seat in the auditorium overlaps with the balcony, and the grandstand is like "embracing with both hands".

The exterior of Guangzhou Grand Theater adopts the "siphon drainage" system, and the stone on the surface of the theater has four layers of structure: waterproof, heat preservation, heat insulation and decoration effect. It is an open stone installation process, collecting rainwater through the stone joints, and collecting and discharging at any time. At the top of the interior of the theater, more than 4000 LED lights have been installed, which has the effect of environmental protection and energy saving.

Cultural Activity

Performing groups

Children's chorus of Guangzhou Grand Theatre

Founded in 2014, Guangzhou Grand Theatre children's chorus is the first professional performance group of Guangzhou Grand Theatre. It is an art team integrating chorus art training and opera stage performance, which is oriented by cultivating chorus art talents. In addition to vocal practice, the daily training of children's chorus of Guangzhou Grand Theater includes the training of role performance ability and opera multilingual ability (Italian, French, German, English, Russian). The director of opera, director of opera of Guangzhou Grand Theatre, Daniel Oulun and his team personally directed and trained the children's chorus of Guangzhou Grand Theatre. Relying on the platform of the National Theater of Guangzhou Grand Theater, the choir has face-to-face communication and interactive learning with international performance teams who come to perform from time to time.

Guangzhou Grand Theater children's Ballet

Founded in 2014, Guangzhou Grand Theater children's ballet company is a youth performance group independently built by Guangzhou Grand Theater to cultivate ballet talents. It is an art team integrating ballet art training and stage performance, with ballet dancer Zou Gang as artistic director. The curriculum of the dance company is mainly based on the curriculum of French ballet, which is known as "the highest expression of romantic realm". French ballet is famous for paying attention to body coordination and footwork. The children's Ballet of Guangzhou Grand Theatre arranges works and performances every year.

Important events

On May 6, 2010, Guangzhou Grand Theater held its opening performance, presenting the homemade opera Turandot.

On October 29, 2010, Guangzhou Grand Theatre held the contemporary art exhibition of "start * trend space" (the first exhibition).

From May 7 to 9, 2011, the opera TUSCA jointly produced by Guangzhou Grand Theatre and Roman opera house was staged.

On September 25, 2011, Guangzhou Grand Theater held a solo concert of "the most beautiful song for the motherland" brought by Guangzhou native young singer Jing Qi.

On April 7, 2012, Guangzhou Grand Theatre held a solo concert by Spanish tenor Jose Carreras (one of the Three Tenors in the world).

From January 16 to March 3, 2013, Guangzhou Grand Theater held the exhibition of cultural Chanel. The most exciting thing is that the exhibition contains more than 30 paintings that Picasso has never made public, and for the first time, it displays several portraits drawn by Modigliani for the main characters related to the blue train.

On December 28, 2013, Guangzhou Grand Theatre held a solo concert by Spanish tenor Jose Carreras.

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