Musiktheater am Volksgarten

Linz, Austria

Dirk Schoenmaker

Linz’s new opera house hosts a 1,000-seat theatre auditorium for opera, musicals, and dance, a 200-seat studio theatre, rehearsal rooms, office spaces, and workshops. The building was designed to be the new home of the Linz Opera, Linz Ballet, and Bruckner Orchestra Linz.

We designed the main auditorium to feel intimate, warm, and exciting, while offering complex but flexible stage engineering solutions with multiple revolves and lifts to allow for quick repertory changeovers. We also designed openings in the stage revolve as an innovative way to carry scenery down to basement storage areas and for productions to stack and store palletized scenery.

Sigrid Rauchdobler

owner:

Musiktheater Linz

architect:

Terry Pawson Architects | ArchitekturConsult

acoustician:

Kahle Acoustics

users:

Landestheater Linz, Bruckner Orchestra

spaces:

1,000-seat opera house
200-seat studio theatre

construction type:

New construction

theatre type:

Auditorium design/seating, Concept design, Music venues

services:

Concept design, theatre planning, theatre equipment design and specification, stage engineering

completion:

2013

Sigrid Rauchdobler

Dirk Schoenmaker

Sigrid Rauchdobler

Dirk Schoenmaker

Musiktheater am Volksgarten

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