Copenhagen Opera House, Denmark
"The Opera is situated in Copenhagen’s inner harbour and completes the historical axis running from the Marble Church through Amalienborg and into the Opera - right at the stage front where the performing artists and their audience meet.
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The Auditorium With its exterior shell of stained maple, the Large Auditorium of the Opera draws an evident parallel to the body of a stringed instrument. A magical universe of tones and sound embrace you and rouse your expectations even as you enter. The golden maple is continued inside the auditorium in the balcony cladding. The rear walls and the floor are covered in stained solid maple elements and smoked oak, respectively. Horizontal recesses and reliefs are coordinated in number, depth, length and height on all rear walls, box walls and balcony fronts not only for ornamental purposes but to ensure excellent acoustics as well.
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The Large Auditorium seats from 1,400 to 1,800 depending on orchestra pit size. The classical horseshoe structure shapes an intense space surrounded by the audience, with the "see and be seen" effect merging into the magic of the opera performance.
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A grid of light spots inserted in the 24 carat gold leaf covered ceiling lights the auditorium like the stellar sky. " - https://lnkd.in/eUdpEy-J
"Bosch's Praesideo for Copenhagen Opera House - 16 May 2005, Light & Sound International, LSi Online
Bosch has supplied the public address and emergency sound system for the new opera house in the Danish capital Copenhagen which was opened in January 2005. Installation was handled by Pro-Partner ApS Denmark. The decorative interior of the Opera House features lots of wood, glass and marble, which meant that the sound system had to be unobtrusive and yet very efficient. Bosch's Praesideo system was chosen to fulfil the dual functions of public address and emergency evacuation as the flexible system architecture permits any type of equipment to be located wherever required in a building.
The Opera House has around 1000 rooms with a total surface area of 41,000sqm, divided into some 280 extensive acoustic zones with 1,200 loudspeakers in all. The feed to the speakers comes from 79 Praesideo power amplifiers, which are in turn controlled by two network controllers. These form the heart of a Praesideo system: among other things, they monitor the operational readiness of the entire system, route live announcements precisely to the appropriate areas, play back digitally stored messages and play background music over the 28 available audio channels. ...
The speakers had to fulfil contrasting demands: they had to be as unobtrusive as possible, without sacrificing reproduction quality. " - https://lnkd.in/eBQReJqm
