Hanoi Opera House featured on world's leading classical music news site

After the Hanoi Opera House broke ground, Classic FM, the UK's leading radio station and classical music news site, reported on and paid special attention to the project, which is expected to become a new cultural icon of Vietnam.

Classic FM describes the project, designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop in collaboration with PTW Architects, as floating on Dam Tri Lake like an island. The news site emphasizes the architectural form that evokes the image of a pearl floating on the water, with a wavy dome and covered with light-reflecting material. Classic FM also quotes the design team as describing it as “the result of a deep study of mathematical patterns in nature, not simply a symbolic shape.”

Perspective of Hanoi Opera House by West Lake.

Notably, Classic FM is a powerful platform in the field of classical music with millions of listeners every month. The fact that the Hanoi Opera House project appeared on this news site shows that Hanoi has officially been known to the international media as a new destination for academic art and modern architecture.

“The theater will include an opera hall with about 1,800 seats and a multi-purpose auditorium with more than 1,000 seats, serving music, art performances and international events. The theater project is expected to be completed in 2027, after completing environmental work and related infrastructure construction. The project is built with socialized capital, while Hanoi city focuses on upgrading the transportation system and infrastructure of the surrounding area. The entire project area is planned to become a thematic cultural and art park with a theater, spiritual destinations, entertainment areas, services and accommodation” - Classic FM wrote.

Hanoi Opera House receives a lot of attention from international media.

Classic FM also affirmed the influence of architectural legend Renzo Piano – the father of the Hanoi Opera House “who is the author of many world- famous works such as The Shard in London, the Pompidou Center in Paris and the Whitney Museum of Art in New York”.

A legend in the world of contemporary architecture, Renzo Piano won the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1998, and is respected by the world architectural community for his talent and great personality. His works always aim for a balance between art, technology and humanity, emphasizing the harmonious relationship between the building and the surrounding nature.

With the Hanoi Opera House, the legendary Renzo Piano continues to demonstrate his distinctive design philosophy by creating a structure that “floats on water”, light but full of symbolic power. He and his design team describe the project as “a place where music, light and people blend together”, and at the same time express their desire to put the Hanoi Opera House on the list of the most famous theaters in the world.

Legendary Renzo Piano spent years researching Hanoi's history to design the Hanoi Opera House.

Following Classic FM, a series of leading international magazines and platforms in the field of architecture and design also simultaneously reported on the Hanoi Opera House, creating a strong wave of influence from the performing arts world to the global architecture world.

Domus, the prestigious Italian architecture and design magazine, called the project “a manifesto of the intersection between modern technology and local identity.” The article emphasized that the Hanoi Opera House is not only a work of aesthetic value but also contributes to affirming the position of the Vietnamese capital as a “dynamic factor on the international cultural map,” where engineering, technology and poetry blend together in the language of modern architecture.

The Hanoi Opera House project is expected to be a new iconic destination of Vietnam.

Archilovers, an international social network for architects and designers, described the theater as “an architectural gem suspended in the water, inspired by the iridescent hues of freshwater mussel shells.” Designboom, one of the world’s top 100 most influential magazines in the field of design, was also one of the first to report “Hanoi officially starts construction on a new opera house designed by Renzo Piano.”

The appearance of the Hanoi Opera House in both prestigious music and architectural publications around the world shows the influence of this project: both an artistic icon and a contemporary architectural wonder. Expected to be completed in 2027, the Hanoi Opera House is expected to not only position Vietnam on the world map of classical music, but also as a global cultural tourism destination.

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Source: https://baothanhhoa.vn/nha-hat-opera-ha-noi-xuat-hien-tren-trang-tin-am-nhac-co-dien-hang-dau-the-gioi-266984.htm