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Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts

General Information

Beginning of works: 2000
Completion: 2003
Status: in use

Project Type

Function / usage: Theater building

Location

Location: , , ,
Address: 60 Manor Avenue
Coordinates: 42° 1' 52.62" N    73° 54' 9.39" W
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Technical Information

Dimensions

seats 950 + 200

Cost

cost of construction United States dollar 62 000 000

Excerpt from Wikipedia

The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College is a performance hall located in the Hudson Valley hamlet of Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. The center provides audiences with performances and programs in orchestral, chamber, and jazz music, and in theater, dance, and opera. Designed by architect Frank Gehry, the 110,000-square-foot (10,000 m²) center houses two theaters, four rehearsal studios for dance, theater, and music, and professional support facilities. The building's heat and air-conditing systems are entirely powered by geothermal sources, enabling the Fisher Center to be fossil fuel free during standard operations. The total cost of the project reached $62 million and took three years to complete, opening in April 2003. The New Yorker calls it "[possibly] the best small concert hall in the United States."

The Sosnoff Theater, an intimate, 900-seat theater with an orchestra, parterre, and two balcony sections, features an orchestra pit for opera and acoustics designed by Yasuhisa Toyota, including an acoustic shell that turns the theater into a concert hall for performances of chamber and symphonic music.

The smaller of the two theaters is the flexible 200-seat LUMA Theater, which houses Bard's Theater and Dance Programs during the academic year.

The Fisher Center is also the home of the Bard Music Festival, hosting companies from around the world during Bard SummerScape, a festival of opera, theater, and dance. The Performing Arts Center is primarily devoted to teaching and college events during the academic year and used as a public performing-arts facility and venue for the college's graduate programs in the arts during the summer months.

Text imported from Wikipedia article "Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts" and modified on September 1, 2020 according to the CC-BY-SA 4.0 International license.

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  • Structure-ID
    20009199
  • Published on:
    29/04/2003
  • Last updated on:
    25/08/2020
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