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An amphitheatre (U.S. English: amphitheater) is an open-air venue used for entertainment, performances, and sports. [2] The term derives from the ancient Greek ἀμφιθέατρον ( amphitheatron ), [ 3 ] from ἀμφί ( amphi ), meaning "on both sides" or "around" [ 4 ] and θέατρον ( théātron ), meaning "place for viewing".
An opera production of Ihitai 'Avei'a – Star Navigator at a 'block box' events centre in Auckland, New Zealand Backstage area of the Vienna State Opera. A theater building or structure contains spaces for an event or performance to take place, usually called the stage, and also spaces for the audience, theater staff, performers and crew before and after the event.
LifeAustin Amphitheatre 1,500 Beaumont: Ford Pavilion [13] Square enclosure facing 6,300 seats under cover and 8,000 lawn seats 14,300 College Station: Wolf Pen Creek Amphitheater 7,000 Corpus Christi: Concrete Street Amphitheatre 3,000 Dallas: Dos Equis Pavilion: 20,000 Houston: Miller Outdoor Theatre: Covered 6,200 New Braunfels: Whitewater ...
In 2011, Yeonhee Kim and Ghang Lee presented an algorithm to derive actual sight area in the early design stage of theater without producing a 3D model. [10] The algorithm uses plan and cross sectional drawings to analyze view of audiences to resolve to address errors of the "sight area rate" algorithm which does not account for sightlines ...
[citation needed] Their design, with its semicircular form, enhances the natural acoustics, unlike Roman amphitheatres constructed in the round. [1] Interior view of the Roman theatre of Bosra, Syria: 1) Scaenae frons 2) Porticus post scaenam 3) Pulpitum 4) Proscaenium 5) Orchestra 6) Cavea 7) Aditus maximus 8) Vomitorium.
19th-century guide to the city mentions efforts in 1817 by the commune to start excavating what was considered a luxurious amphitheater at this site. [1] It is one of the best-preserved Roman theatres in Italy. [2] It is located just outside the Porta Fiorentina, in an area called Vallebuona. [3]
The Amphitheatre of Pompeii in the 1800s, one of the earliest known Roman amphitheatres. It is uncertain when and where the first amphitheatres were built. There are records attesting to temporary wooden amphitheatres built in the Forum Romanum for gladiatorial games from the second century BC onwards, and these may be the origin of the architectural form later expressed in stone. [5]
Free−standing outdoor shells in a variety of styles were built starting in the 1890s. Professional architects were often employed to design them with varying degrees of acoustical success. The Hollywood Bowl shell, based on a 1928 prototype by Lloyd Wright, has been rebuilt several times with the present structure being the fifth on that site.