Music Hall at Fair Park

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Music Hall at Fair Park (2009)

The Music Hall at Fair Park is an Art Deco- style building in Dallas , Texas, opened in 1925 . Since 1951, the 3420-seat building in the form of a musical theater has been the home of the Dallas Summer Musicals .

It opened on October 10, 1925 with the operetta premiere of Sigmund Romberg's The Student Prince . In 1954, 1972 and 1999 the building underwent major renovations.

The Music Hall at Fair Park was used as the venue of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra from the 1930s and from 1945 to 1951, from 1956 to 1961 and from 1972 until the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center was completed in 1989 .

From 1957 the Dallas Opera used the premises. The conductor Nicola Rescigno gave an opening concert with Maria Callas and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra on November 21, 1957. After the completion of the Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House in 2009 , the Dallas Opera left the stage.

Web links

Commons : Music Hall at Fair Park  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Barnes: Theater . In: Handbook of Texas Online , uploaded June 15, 2010.
  2. ↑ History , liveatthemusichall.com, accessed on 19 September 2018th
  3. ^ Theodore Albrecht : Dallas Symphony Orchestra . In: Handbook of Texas Online , uploaded June 12, 2010; changed on November 1, 2015.
  4. ^ John William Woldt: Dallas Symphony Orchestra . In: Robert R. Craven (ed.): Symphony Orchestras of the United States . Greenwood Press, New York et al. a. 1986, ISBN 0-313-24072-8 , pp. 386-390, here: pp. 388f.
  5. ↑ Laurie E. Jasinski: Dallas Opera . In: Handbook of Texas Online , uploaded June 26, 2014; changed on November 1, 2015.
  6. ↑ Laurie E. Jasinski: Rescigno, Nicola . In: Handbook of Texas Online , uploaded May 19, 2015.

Coordinates: 32 ° 46 ′ 49.2 "  N , 96 ° 45 ′ 57.2"  W.