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​​Incredible Concert Halls Around the World

There’s no objective way to determine the best acoustics for concert halls, though most people agree on the basics..

Acoustic consultants now playing a central role in any new concert venue design.

"With the objective criteria of today, one can safely plan for a hall that would be somewhere on the scale from good to excellent." "Another way of putting it is, we are able to explain 70-80% of the average listener's preference by the physical and acoustical properties of the hall."

For now, the only effective way to rank concert halls acoustics is subjective - is it dazzling or is the sound perfectly designed? 

One notable trend is that the highest-rated concert halls were built before 1901 and were built like a rectangular or shoebox shape and lightly upholstered seats. Many newer halls today sacrifice sound quality for visual design, size, and comfort.

"Architects are reluctant to design shoebox shapes because they show no originality,"  "So the new designs are like the recently opened Philharmonie de Paris. There are some excellent seats, but because the audience is seated everywhere, front, behind, to the sides and above the stage, the acoustics sound different everywhere and in some places are unsatisfactory to me."

Regardless of the critics, here are some of the greatest and most popular as well as musically spectacular in their music presentations.

On your form, be sure to include the location on the map as well as listed in the title and write down a few interesting facts about that particular concert hall.

Grosser Musikvereinssaal - Vienna, Austria
Symphony Hall - Boston, USA
Concertgebouw - Amsterdam, Netherlands
Konzerthaus - Berlin, Germany
Tokyo Opera City Concert Hall - Tokyo Japan
Stadtcasino - Basel, Switzerland
Symphony Hall - Birmingham, England
Culture and Congress Centre (KKL) - Lucerne, Switzerland
St. David's Hall - Cardiff, Wales
Meyerson Center - Dallas, Texas
Paris Philharmonie - Paris, France
The Helix - Dublin, Ireland
Royal Albert Hall - London, England
Walt Disney Concert Hall - Los Angeles, California
Carnegie Hall - New York City, USA
Sydney Opera House - Sydney, Australia
Harbin Opera House - Harbin, China
Palau de la Musica Catalana - Barcelona, Spain
Palais Garnier Opera House - Paris, France
Oslo Opera House - Oslo, Norway
Hungarian State Opera - Budapest, Hungary
The Egg - Albany, New York
Heydar Aliyev Center - Azerbaijan, Republic of Azerbaijan
Teatro La Fenice - Venice, Italy
Bridgewater Hall - Manchester, UK
Berlin Philharmonie - Berlin, Germany
Christchurch Town Hall Auditorium - Christchurch, New Zealand
Sibelius Hall - Lahti, Finland
Sala - Sao Paulo, Brazil

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