Performing Architecture: Opera Houses Theatres and Concert Halls for the Twenty-first Century

About this book

In an age of fast-paced mass media and an enormous choice of home entertainment it comes as a surprise to discover just how much creative energy and money is being directed towards new space for live performance at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Performing Architecture explores fifty of the worlds finest twenty-first-century venues for live performance as well as earlier buildings that have been recently refurbished or transformed and shows that the buildings are as much the stars as those performing within them.