Winspear Opera House
© Nigel Young Courtesy of AT&T Performing Arts Center

Winspear Opera House Dallas, TX, United States

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Winspear Opera House

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Winspear Opera House
© Nigel Young Courtesy of AT&T Performing Arts Center

Winspear Opera House achieves a 21st-century sound that grips both opera aficionados as well as supporters of new opera, dance, and musicals.

Sound Space Vision acoustician Bob Essert delivered an auditorium with excellent loudness balance between singers and orchestra. Clarity of opera text, a high degree of strength and impact of the sound, and resonance of orchestral sound, all contribute to the ability for singers to excite the room. It was designed to achieve world-class opera acoustics, sightlines, and architecture in an auditorium seating 2200 patrons comfortably.

The building isolation scheme was challenging, requiring the use of large, complex canopy isolators capable of isolating vibration in all directions, floating roof slabs, and acoustic joints throughout the building. But, as it was designed to the threshold of hearing, the result is no background noise, and no mechanical and electrical noise. There is no disturbance from the Love Field flight path directly overhead or from amplified events in the Annette Strauss Artist Square nearby.

The Winspear Opera House opened in September 2009, it is the performance home for the Dallas Opera and Texas Ballet Theatre.

Winspear Opera House
Winspear Opera House
Winspeaer Opera House gardens
© Nate Rehlander Courtesy of AT&T Performing Arts Center
© Daniel Driensky Courtesy of AT&T Performing Arts Center
Winspear Opera House rehearsal hall
Winspear Opera House
© Nigel Young Courtesy of AT&T Performing Arts Center