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The Royal Albert Hall is a concert hall on the northern edge of South Kensington, London, England.It has a seating capacity of 5,272. [1]Since the hall's opening by Queen Victoria in 1871, the world's leading artists from many performance genres have appeared on its stage.
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The hall was opened on 10 March 1928 by the Prime Minister, Stanley Bruce.Bruce named the hall, explaining at the opening ceremony that he had chosen the name from the Royal Albert Hall in London and also because it was the first name of The Duke of York (later George VI) and furthermore that it commemorated the "Consort of the Queen who had proclaimed the Australian Commonwealth".
His new Albert Hall Methodist Mission was built in the style of an Edwardian Theatre or Music Hall and, in the practice of temperance halls, concerts and other events were staged in the building. The new Hall was dedicated on 17 March 1909 [ 4 ] and officially opened on 15 September 1910 [ 5 ] by Lady Florence Boot , wife of Jesse Boot of the ...
Royal Albert Hall chief executive Craig Hassall will step down at the beginning of the 2023 season, it has been announced.. After six years in the role, he will take up the position of president ...
Aerial view of Albertopolis, South Kensington. The Albert Memorial, Royal Albert Hall and Royal College of Art are visible near the top; the Victoria and Albert Museum and Natural History Museum at the lower end; Imperial College, the Royal College of Music, and Science Museum lying in between.
The vineyard style is a design of a concert hall where the seating surrounds the stage, rising up in serried rows in the manner of the sloping terraces of a vineyard.It may be contrasted with the shoebox style, which has a rectangular auditorium and a stage at one end (as at the Musikverein).
The Albert Hall is a music venue in Manchester, England. Built as a Methodist central hall in 1908 by the architect William James Morley of Bradford and built by J. Gerrard & Sons Ltd of Swinton, it has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade II listed building. [3] The main floor was used as a nightclub from 1999 to 2011.