It might also be seen as part of a wider shift to the experiential made by both cultural centres and the service industry in recent years. The Paul Hamlyn Hall, formerly known as the Floral Hall, is now being put to greater use with daytime workshops This follows in a similar vein to Stanton Williams’ renovations for the Musée d’Arts de Nantes, helping a previously closed-off museum engage with its public and surrounds. Tackling the more negative associations that opera and ballet have garnered over the years – as art forms rarefied, unapproachable, elitist – the project aims to make engaging with the building and the arts it represents a more informal affair. Stanton Williams intends its design to be a ‘physical manifestation of cultural change at the ROH’. As the title suggests, the project intended to open this cultural institution to a public beyond its ticket-holding guests, and so the focus of this three-year, donor-funded project was on the spaces that all visitors will first encounter – the entrances from Covent Garden and Bow Street, as well as the foyer between them. Last autumn London-based architecture practice Stanton Williams completed an extensive reworking of the Royal Opera House for its initiative Open Up. There will be short musical recitals in the Paul Hamlyn Hall performed every hour between 11am and 4pm on both days of the Open House London, including recitals from tenor Alan Pingarron, as well as special performances from current and former singers of The Royal Opera’s Jette Parker Young Artists’ Programme.A reworking of the Royal Opera House for its Open Up initiative successfully makes the institution more attractive and inclusive for non-opera goers. The work will remain on display until 7 April 2022. The 12-metre long chalk-on-blackboard drawing, entitled Inferno, 2019, was created for the opening act of the ballet based on Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy and will mark Dean's first experience designing sets and costumes for the stage.
In the Paul Hamlyn Hall, visitors will also see Tacita Dean’s original artwork for Inferno from Wayne McGregor’s eagerly anticipated Royal Ballet production of The Dante Project, which receives its world premiere in October. 4 September 2021–7 April 2022 Open daily from 12pmĪhead of the launch of its upcoming 2021/22 Season, the Royal Opera House will throw open its doors on the weekend of Saturday 4 and Sunday 5 September as part of Open House London - giving families, first-time visitors and the culturally curious a taste of one of the world’s most famous theatres, in the heart of the West End, for free.
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