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The Bridgewater Hall is a concert venue in Manchester city centre, England.It cost around £42 million to build in the 1990s, [2] and hosts over 250 performances a year. It is home to the 165-year-old Hallé Orchestra as well as to the Hallé Choir and Hallé Youth Orchestra and it serves as the main concert venue for the BBC Philharmonic.
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Dralion (pronounced Drah-lee-on) was a touring production by the Canadian entertainment company Cirque du Soleil.The show combined elements of traditional Chinese circus with Western contemporary circus, complementing the "East-meets-West" theme implied in the title—the name is a portmanteau of "dragon" (representing the East) and "lion" (representing the West).
The Spectrum Center is an indoor arena in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States. Located in Uptown, it is owned by the city of Charlotte and operated by its main tenant, the Charlotte Hornets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). The arena seats 19,077 for NBA games, but can be expanded to 20,200 for college basketball games.
Alegría is a Cirque du Soleil touring production, created in 1994 by director Franco Dragone and director of creation Gilles Ste-Croix. It takes its name from the Spanish word for "joy". Since April 1994 the show has been performed over 5000 times, and has been seen by over 14 million spectators in more than 250 cities around the world.
Grady Cole Center is a small civic center located on the campus of Central Piedmont Community College in Charlotte, North Carolina. The 3,000 seat center is located near the city's center, and can host several types of events. It was built in 1954 to replace the Charlotte Armory Auditorium, which had been destroyed by fire.
The Society’s Music Directors have included the Manchester-born pianist Edward Isaacs (1923–53) [3] and violinist Laurence Turner (from 1953) amongst many others. Over the years, Concerts have been held at various locations, such as Manchester’s Houldsworth Hall, Albert Hall and Royal Exchange Theatre .
[3] [4] In 2011 it was the first show by Cirque du Soleil to be presented in Turkey, [5] and Ukraine, in 2012 the first show in Slovakia and in Amman, Jordan. [6] Saltimbanco' s last performance took place in Montreal on December 30, 2012 [ 3 ] after 6,000 big top and arena appearances before 14 million spectators in 200 cities worldwide.