Interior. The new Playhouse - Skuespilhuset. Copenhagen. Denmark.
The new Playhouse - Skuespilhuset. Copenhagen. Denmark. The impressive new Playhouse - in Danish: Skuespilhuset - at the Copenhagen old harbor front and near the Royal Palace and the other great ciltutural attraction, the Opera House, opened February 16 2008. The Playhouse holds about 1000 seats, parted between 3 stages, where the biggest one - the Main Stage - have 650 seats. The building was designed by the architects Boje Lundgaard and Lene Tranbjerg. Construction started just after completion of the Opera House a few hundred meters away on the opposite side of the harbor. The building is with its M2 (price: 120 mio Euro's) about half size of the Opera House. The design of the building underlines its proximity to the water and the harbor by the fact that 40% of the building is placed out in the water. This impression is further enhanced by the broad promenade in front of the building, which is constructed in oak planks and big pillars so it is hanging out over the water. This and the glass facade provides the massive and box-like building with an air of lightness and simplicity. With the new Playhouse the Royal Theater now consist of 3 big houses, the Old Royal Theater in the inner city, which will be the playground for the Royal ballet, the Opera House, for the Opera and the Playhouse as the stage for play-acting. All of these performing arts where before concentrated at the old Royal Theater building (now the ballet). Their seperation in 3 house was a product of a 7 years long rather heated discussion and an impressive drama by itself: Either to continoue uniting capabilities and competencies in an improved Royal Theater building at Kongens Nytorv, or to split the arts up in so many buildings. But the debaters where surprisingly by-passed from another side: Mr Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller decided in year 2000 to give the nation a rather expensive gift: A new Opera House. The splitting was inevitable - and is now generally considered positive.
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Location: Kvæsthusbroen. Copenhagen. Denmark.
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