Montreal Has One of the World's Great Symphony Halls

[@eriktarin2127]

Beautiful symphony hall. Greetings from Phoenix, Arizona! Happy new 2022.

[@melaniamonicacraciun9900]

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[@sebsun]

Truly a world class building! I was wondering what preceded this symphony hall?

[@DiscoverMontréal]

Salle Wilfred-Pelletier next door at Place des Arts was the original home of the symphony, but it was not built with the same acoustic capability in mind.

[@anne12876]

The Wilfrid-Pelletier concert hall next door. But it was build for ballet and opera as well. It doesn’t have the same acoustic qualities to support a wide range of instrumental composition from soloist instrument to a symphonic orchestra.

[@MandiriPlafond]

emezing ☕🔔

[@reliefcoaching]

proud to be a Montrealer

[@yonatanenini7583]

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[@FerrodX]

The hall is top notch, the only thing missing here in Montreal is an exigent audience that could challenge the OSM to become a world class orchestra.

[@victorjr9341]

👌👌

[@harishs8567]

Hope the DR orchestra performs here

[@huyliemtran9899]

😀 😃 🙂 👍

[@1Yh8HH]

Au centre de la ville granola par excellence

[@ditdotdotnwelkjnrhw]

So what is the purpose now of Place Des Arts? What kind of programming is presented there (when not in a pandemic, that is)

[@DiscoverMontréal]

Shows of every kind: opera, theatre, stand-up comedy. It has become the main venue of the Quartier des spectacles and all the festivals that are hosted there each year.

[@anne12876]

What is typically considered as classical music (except operas) has been transferred to la Maison symphonique. La Place des Arts hosts a total of 5 concert halls. The smallest has 130 seats and the largest (la salle Wilfrid-Pelletier) has 3000 seats. La Place des arts presents any kind of performing arts. Operas, ballets, Broadway style musicals, dance, jazz, pop/rock music, theatre, comedy, or events like fundraisers, conferences, or galas. The complex also hosts the offices of the Montreal Opera, a theatre company (la compagnie Jean-Duceppe) and, up to recently, Les Grands Ballets.

[@warbitrary]

I enjoyed learning about the hall, but having two overlapping soundtracks in the first third of the video is very unpleasant to the ears, I almost had to stop listening. And the 15 seconds of dance music at the end felt out of place and entirely unnecessary.

[@michaelpoisson320]

agreed, having decent relative pitch I found it to be painful haha, I wonder if any OSM players would be able to make it through.