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Situated alongside the West Chang'an Avenue at the very heart of downtown Beijing, the main body of the National Centre for the Performing Arts is a unique a stylish shell of super ellipsoidal steel construction. The surface of this imposing architecture showcases an ingenious material integration o titanium plates and some ultra-white glass sheets, the resultant streamline architectural style of which lends the building a theatrical visual effect reminiscent of a raising curtain. The shell structure is surrounded by an artificial lake (of 35,500 square meters in land coverage) and a public cultural square consisting of sweeps of flourishing greeneries. The National Centre for the Performing Arts acquires an ineffable appearance comparable to that of a beautifully wrought diamond framed against a deep-blue sea. |
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| Opera House |
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The golden Opera House, with a total number of 2,398 seats (including the venue for SRO), is primarily dedicated to the staging of operas, dance dramas, etc. ballet and large theatrical festivals. It is equipped with a modern stage that can be moved up/down/back/forward or rotated, a ballet stage that can be slanting, and the up-and- down orchestra pit that can hold 90-musician orchestra. It has a reverberation time lasting for a remarkable 1.6 seconds, which meets the performance requirements of operas and dance dramas, etc |
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| Concert Hall |
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The Concert Hall in the National Centre for the Performing Arts boasts a distinct air of exceeding serenity and refinedness and it features mainly large-scale symphonies and national music performances supplemented by occasional staging of musicals in other forms with 2,019 seats (including the venue for SRO). There is the largest pipe organ all over the country, which can meet the performances requirements of all schools. And except that, such designs as digital walls, abstract relief ceiling with extremely modern aesthetic feelings, GRC walls, and tortoise shell-style central sound panel enable a symmetrical, homogeneous and gentle acoustic diffusion and reflection, which make the Hall embody an ideal integration between architectural and acoustic aesthetics. |
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| Theatre |
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The Theatre in the National Centre for the Performing Arts is designed with a distinctive national architectural flavor where silk embroidered wallpapers give rise to a contagious theatrical atmosphere marked by sincerity, warmness and hospitality. The Playhouse stages primarily traditional Chinese operas, modern dramas with a total number of 1,035 seats (including the venue for SRO). The "drum" rotary standing at the main stage is capable of working either independently or in conjunction, which achieves the unique elevation-rotation synchronization stage effect. Its telescopic proscenium is particularly suitable for traditional Chinese opera performances. |
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| Auxiliary Facilities |
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The Centre is equipped with a complete range of modern theatrical facilities, including tiring- rooms, piano houses, rehearsal halls, lounge rooms for conductors, a lounge hall for actors, waiting halls for performers, dressing rooms, prop rooms, stage décor workshops, VIP rooms and an auditorium for ceremonial purposes, etc. among which there are 72 ordinary tiring- rooms, 18 tiring- rooms VIP rooms, 23 piano houses, 18 VIP rooms, 5 rehearsal halls. |
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