Philharmonie de Paris
| Philharmonie de Paris | |
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| Established | January 14, 2015 |
| Location |
221 West avenue Jean-Jaurès Paris 75019,  France |
| Coordinates | 48°53′30″N 2°23′39″E / 48.891566°N 2.39407°E |
| Director | Laurent Bayle |
| Website |
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The Philharmonie de Paris is a symphonic concert hall of 2,400 seats in Paris, France, whose construction had been postponed for about twenty years, to complete the Cité de la Musique.[1]
Plans
Mainly dedicated to symphonic concerts, the Philharmonie de Paris will also present other forms of music, such as jazz and world music.
The project was announced on 6 March 2006 by the Minister of Culture and Communication, Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres; the Mayor of Paris, Bertrand Delanoë; and the Director of the Cité de la musique and of the Salle Pleyel, Laurent Bayle, during a press conference on the reopening of the Salle Pleyel, now linked with the Cité.
As far as acoustics are concerned, the concert hall will envelope the audience around the stage, following the model pioneered by the Berlin Philharmonie, in order to intensify the feeling of intimacy between the performers and their audience.
The Philharmonie de Paris will accommodate administrative offices for several orchestras, an educational centre, exhibition spaces and a restaurant, as well technical and logistical infrastructure and a car park.
The cost of construction was expected to be 170 million euros, and will be shared by the national government (45 per cent), the Ville de Paris (45 per cent), and the Région Île-de-France (10 per cent). But the cost in the end is expected to be €381 million ($508 million) [2]
In 2007, Jean Nouvel won the design competition for the auditorium. He brought in Brigitte Métra as his partner, along with Marshall Day Acoustics (room acoustics design) and Nagata Acoustics (peer-review and scale model study).[3][4]
Opening ceremony
The hall opened on 14 January 2015, with a performance by the Orchestre de Paris of Faure's Requiem, played to honour the victims of the Charlie Hebdo shootings which took place in the city a week earlier. It is located in the Parc de la Villette in the 19th arrondissement of Paris. This sector of the city was also the home of the two brothers who carried out these killings. The opening concert was attended by François Hollande, the President of France.[5]
References
- ↑ Philharmonie de Paris – Presentation.
- ↑ France’s New Music Temple
- ↑ "Making acoustic choices for the future symphony hall". Philharmonie de Paris. Retrieved 5 March 2012.
- ↑ http://sourceable.net/acoustic-feats-worlds-costliest-concert-hall/# sourceable.com
- ↑ "In New Concert Hall, Paris Orchestra Honours Last Week's Terror Victims". 15 January 2015.
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