‘Blown away’: Conductor dubs ‘new’ Opera House concert hall world-class | Engalvo
Sydney Symphony Orchestra chief conductor Simone Young has declared the Opera House concert hall one of the best in the world following its 2½-year, $150 million refurbishment.
The radically different sound revealed itself to Young the week prior, when she and the orchestra experimented with the new acoustic “petals” suspended above the stage. “I would play a passage through with the orchestra and then my assistant would continue to conduct it a few times while we tried different constellations and arrangements and slowly came to a set of what are, for us now, the sort of default settings that we will start in, but it’s not the work of a week, it’s the work of quite a few months.”
Young was prepared for the huge interest in the reopening of the hall but has also been gratified by the continuing enthusiasm for this series of concerts, which has included visits from violinist Hilary Hahn and pianist Javier Perianes.“It was to be expected that there would be a lot of excitement about the opening performances,” she says. “But the audience continues to be excited and galvanised by the whole experience, which is thrilling.
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