National Center for the Performing Arts
| National Center for the Performing Arts | |
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| Address: | West Chang'an Street 2, Xicheng District |
| City: | Beijing |
| Coordinates: | 39 ° 54 '12 " N , 116 ° 23' 1" E |
| Architecture and history | |
| Construction time: | 2001-2007 |
| Opened: | 2007 |
| Spectator: | 5473 seats |
| Architect: | Paul Andreu |
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| Website: | www.chncpa.org/ens/ |
The Chinese National Center for the Performing Arts ( Chinese 國家 大 劇院 / 国家 大 剧院 , Pinyin Guójiā dà jùyuàn ; English National Center for the Performing Arts ), also known as the Chinese National Theater or Chinese National Opera , is a large theater and opera building in the Chinese Capital Beijing .
It is located downtown, west of Tian'anmen Square and the Great Hall of the People in Beijing's Xicheng District .
architecture
The building, designed by French architect Paul Andreu , opened in 2007. Its egg-shaped, spectacular exterior and interior - elliptical, made of glass and titanium , reminiscent of the traditional yin-and-yang motif, surrounded by an artificial lake - is one of the city's modern architectural sights.
It is a venue for national and international theater, opera, music and dance performances.
various
Singer Sun Nan performed at this location in the well-known feature song for the 100-day countdown of the 2008 Summer Olympics .
Picture gallery
View at night
Entrance on the north side
Passage under the water basin
View from the coal hill
literature
- Paul Andreu , L'Opéra de Pékin. Le roman d'un chantier , conversation avec François Cheng , Éd. du Chêne, Paris, 2007, ISBN 978-2-84277-776-0
- Gérard Fontaine, Le Grand Théâtre national de Pékin. Comment réussir un opéra de Charles Garnier à Paul Andreu , A. Viénot, Paris, 2003, ISBN 2-914645-09-0
- Jana N. Hoffmann, The New Opera House in Beijing: Tradition in the Present , Disserta Verl., Hamburg, 2015
- Mark Zitzmann: “Phoenix or soap bubble? Dispute over the construction of the Beijing National Theater ” , Neue Zürcher Zeitung , July 11, 2000
Web links
Videos
- 中国 国家 大 剧院 (China's National Grand Theater) - youtube.com
- The Grand National Theater, Beijing - youtube.com
References and footnotes
- ↑ Chinese 西 长安街 , Pinyin Xi Chang'an jie
- ↑ youtube.com: Welcome to Beijing 北京 欢迎 你 (from 1:33)