The biggest theater in the world is …

The biggest theater in the world is the Sydney Opera House.

Venue: Cape Beniland, Sydney, Australia.

Scale of Opera House: The entire building of Sydney Opera House covers an area of 1.84 hectares, with a length of 183 meters, a width of18 meters and a height of 67 meters, which is equivalent to the height of 20 floors.

Designer: Jon Wuzhong

The appearance and structure of Sydney Opera House

The appearance of Sydney Opera House is three groups of huge shells, which stand on the pedestal of cast-in-place reinforced concrete structure with a length of 186 meters from north to south and a width of 97 meters from east to west. The first group of shells is on the west side of the lot. Four pairs of shells are arranged in a string, three pairs face north and one pair faces south. There is a big concert hall inside. The second group is on the east side of the lot, roughly parallel to the first group, with the same form and slightly smaller scale, and the opera house is inside. The third group is the smallest group in their southwest, which consists of two pairs of shells and has a restaurant inside. Other rooms are cleverly arranged in the base. The entrance of the whole building complex is at the southern end, and the steps are 97 meters wide. The vehicle entrance and parking lot are located under the big steps.

The Opera House is divided into three parts: Opera House, Concert Hall and Benilan Restaurant. The Opera House, Concert Hall and Lounge stand side by side on a huge granite pedestal, and each pedestal consists of four towering big shell roofs. These shells are arranged in turn. The first three cover one, facing the bay, and the last one stands with its back to the bay. It looks like two groups of clams with their lids upside down. The spire shells of different heights are coated with white plaid glaze. Seen from a distance in the sun, they are like erect shells and two huge white sailboats flying on the blue sea, so they are called "Sailboat Roof Theater". The shell-shaped pointed roof consists of 265,438+094 arc-shaped concrete precast blocks each weighing 65,438+05.3 tons, which are tensioned by steel cables and cover 6,543,800 white or cream tiles.

According to the designer in his later years, his creativity actually came from oranges. It was the orange that had been peeled for half a layer that inspired him. This creative source is also carved into a small model and placed in front of the Sydney Opera House for visitors to appreciate the great ideas triggered by this ordinary thing.

Opera House, Concert Hall and Beniland Restaurant.

The Opera Hall is smaller than the Concert Hall, with 1547 seats. It is mainly used for opera, ballet and dance performances. The interior furnishings are novel, gorgeous and elegant. In order to avoid the reflection of the wall during the performance, all the walls are inlaid with dark plywood: the floor and ceiling are made of local boxwood and birch; The spring chair is covered with a smooth red leather case. With such a device, the performance can have a mellow sound effect. The stage covers an area of 440 square meters and has a turntable and a lifting platform. The stage is equipped with two gorgeous French wool curtains. A pattern is composed of three colors: red, yellow and pink, which is called "sun curtain" just like sunlight shining on the earth. The other is composed of dark blue, green and brown, and hangs on the cloud like a crescent moon, which is called "Moon Curtain". There are 200 circuits of stage lighting, which are controlled by computer. It is also equipped with closed-circuit television, so that the stage supervisor can see the situation on and off stage at a glance.

The Concert Hall is the largest hall of the Sydney Opera House, which can accommodate 2,679 people. Usually used to hold symphony, chamber music, opera, dance, chorus, pop music, jazz and other performances. The most special part of this concert hall is the grand organ, which is located in front of the concert hall and designed and built by Australian artist Ronald Sharp. It claims to be the largest mechanical tracker operating organ in the world, consisting of 65,438+00,500 air ducts. In addition, the building materials of the entire concert hall are all made of Australian wood, faithfully presenting Australia's own style.

Two small sloping roofs stand beside the opening of the shell, forming a large public restaurant called Benilan Restaurant, which can accommodate more than 6,000 people every night. Other various activity places are located on the base. The theater has more than 900 large and small halls such as drama hall, movie hall, large exhibition hall and reception hall, 5 rows of halls, 65 dressing rooms, library, exhibition hall, actor canteen, coffee shop and bar.

Anecdotes of Sydney Opera House

The twists and turns of design and construction

Sydney Opera House was conceived and built in 1950s. From 1955, the design works from all over the world were publicly collected. As of 1956 * *, a total of 233 works from 32 countries have participated in the competition. Later, I chose the design picture of Danish architect Jorn Utzon, which took 16 years and cost120,000 Australian dollars.

During the construction process, due to the discord between the reorganized new Australian government and Jorn Utzon, the architect left Australia on 1966, and never set foot on Australian soil again, even his classic works could not be witnessed. Later, the work was completed by Australian architects, including Peter Hall, Lionel Todd and David Littlemore. Sydney Opera House officially opened on1October 20th, 1973.

First performance

Another legend of Sydney Opera House is his first performance. Of course, the official premiere was also packed with guests. Queen Elizabeth II was invited to the opening ceremony (1973 10), but some people think that the first performance of Sydney Opera House was paul robeson's performance in 1960. The black singer climbed up the scaffolding that was still under construction and sang loudly. Coincidentally, his birthday is the same as that of Danish architect Jorn Utzon.

Everything is so coincidental. But there are more behind-the-scenes stories about the Sydney Opera House. Because the ups and downs in the construction process are too soapy, there are insurmountable technical difficulties, architects who leave in a hurry, too high project costs that almost bankrupt the government, and extra actor Bosum who arranged flowers during the rehearsal of the first performance. Later, someone wrote these into an opera called: the eighth wonder of the world.