KAOHSIUNG 〓 Taiwan’s largest art center opened

2018/10/18
【最終更新日】2020/02/13

Taiwan’s largest multi-disciplinary art center “Weiwuying National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts” has opened. On the 13th, an opening concert accompanied by President Tsai Ingwen was held and Chien Wen Pin conducted the National Symphony Orchestra and the Kaohsiung Symphony Orchestra, etc., and performed works by Taiwanese composers. Chien, who has served as conductor of Deutsche Oper am Rhein, is one of the leaders of the Taiwanese music world who performed Wagner’s “Der Ring des Nibelungen” for the first time in Taiwan in 2006. He became the first art director of the new center. In November, Berliner Philharmoniker led by Gustavo Dudamel came and played Bernstein, Mahler’s work.

The new center was built in the huge park (141,000 square meters) created using the site of the former army base “Weiwuying”. Total construction cost is 350 million dollars. The design was Ms. Francine Houben of the Netherlands, and the whole center was summarized with the image of “tree of banyan tree”. Also, as Kaohsiung was a prosperous city in the shipbuilding industry, the technique of laminating 2,300 steel plates with shipbuilding technology was adopted on the wall of the building. In the building, there were four halls of 2248 seats of opera house, 2012 seat concert hall, 1212 seating playhouse, 434 seating recital halls. In the concert hall there was also a pipe organ organized by German “Johannes Klais Orgelbau” with more than 100 years history. Asia’s largest pipe organ with 9085 pipes.




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