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Concert halls in Austria and Central Europe
A survey of major purpose-built concert halls in Austria and Central Europe, centered on Vienna's Musikverein and Konzerthaus and reaching to Prague's Rudolfinum and Zurich's Tonhalle.
Concert halls in France, Italy and the Low Countries
A survey of concert halls in France, Italy, Belgium, and the Netherlands, covering Amsterdam's Concertgebouw of 1888, the Philharmonie de Paris opened in 2015, and Rome's Auditorium Parco della Musica.
Concert halls in Japan
Concert halls in Japan are dedicated classical-music venues such as Suntory Hall in Tokyo and The Symphony Hall in Osaka, with metropolitan Tokyo alone holding more than 20 major venues.
Concert halls in Latin America
Latin America's concert-hall landscape includes colonial and modern venues, such as Buenos Aires' Teatro Colón (1908) and São Paulo's Sala São Paulo (1999).
Concert halls in Southern and Eastern Europe
A survey of notable concert halls in Spain, Greece, and the Baltic states, from Barcelona's 1908 Palau de la Música Catalana to Latvia's Great Amber, opened in 2015.
Concert halls in the Nordic countries
The major concert halls of the Nordic countries, organized since 1983 in the Nordic Concert Halls league of 18 members with combined capacity over 70,000, including Konserthuset Stockholm and Harpa.
Concertgebouw
The Concertgebouw, also known as Het Concertgebouw, is a concert hall in Amsterdam opened in 1888, famed for its acoustics and home of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.
Copacabana (nightclub)
Copacabana (the Copa), New York nightclub opened 1940 at 10 East 60th Street; mob-linked via Frank Costello and Jules Podell; headlined Sinatra and Cole; famous from Manilow's 1978 song; later relocated, including West 34th Street.
Corning Opera House (Iowa)
The Corning Opera House is a restored 1902 performance hall in Corning, Iowa, built by Frederick Charles Reese and reopened as a community venue in 2012.
Cotton Club
Cotton Club, Harlem nightclub (1920–1940), also called Club Deluxe, owned by Owney Madden; featured Duke Ellington and Cab Calloway for whites-only audiences before its 1936 move to West 48th Street.
Country Bear Jamboree
Country Bear Jamboree: Audio-Animatronics bear country-music stage show opened October 1, 1971 at Magic Kingdom, Walt Disney World; copied to Disneyland 1972 and Tokyo Disneyland 1983; reimagined 2024 as Country Bear Musical Jamboree.
Crypto.com Arena
Crypto.com Arena, formerly Staples Center (1999-2021), is AEG's 20,000-seat downtown Los Angeles arena at 1111 S. Figueroa, home of the Lakers, Kings, and Sparks, renamed in a 20-year, ~$700 million deal, and a 2028 Olympics gymnastics and boxing venue.
Dubai Opera (دبي أوبرا)
Dubai Opera (دبي أوبرا) is Emaar's 2,000-seat dhow-shaped performing arts venue in Downtown Dubai, opened 31 August 2016, with a transforming auditorium (theatre, concert hall, flat floor) and over 1.5 million visitors since opening.
El Muelle
El Muelle (Spanish, "the pier") names several unrelated waterfront venues: El Muelle Live, the 8,900-capacity open-air concert space at Muelle 12, Port of Alicante, opened 2025; plus a Buenos Aires restaurant, Las Palmas shopping center, and others.
Elbphilharmonie
Elbphilharmonie: Hamburg concert hall by Herzog & de Meuron atop the Kaispeicher warehouse, opened 11 January 2017 at a cost of 866 million euros. Grand Hall (2,100 seats, vineyard) and Recital Hall (550, shoebox), acoustics by Yasuhisa Toyota with spring-isolated double walls.
Enmore Theatre
Enmore Theatre: heritage-listed Sydney live music and comedy venue at 118-132 Enmore Road, Newtown, opened as a photo-play theatre in 1912 on a 1908 building, remodelled in Art Deco style in 1936, operated by Century Venues since 1986.
Ericsson Globe
The Ericsson Globe, officially Avicii Arena since 2021, is a spherical indoor arena in Stockholm opened in 1989, serving as Sweden's national hockey arena and a major concert venue.
Finlandia Hall
Finlandia Hall (Finlandia-talo) is a white marble concert and congress venue in Helsinki, designed by Alvar Aalto, completed in 1971, and reopened in 2025 after renovation.
Forum Theatre
Forum Theatre is a heritage-listed live music venue in Melbourne, Australia. Built in 1929 as the largest picture palace in the country, it hosts major acts like Harry Styles.
Frenchmen Street
Frenchmen Street: live music corridor in the Faubourg Marigny, New Orleans, between Esplanade Avenue and Royal Street; named for five Frenchmen executed in 1769 (1768 by another account); clubs include Snug Harbor, Spotted Cat, d.b.a., Blue Nile.
G-Son Studios
G-Son Studios is the Atwater Village, Los Angeles recording space the Beastie Boys rented in 1990, named for a Gilson's sign with missing letters, where Check Your Head and Ill Communication were made and Grand Royal was headquartered; now restored as a community venue.
Gasteig
Gasteig, Munich cultural and education centre opened 10 November 1985 in Haidhausen; houses Munich Philharmonic, city library, adult education centre, and music university; under renovation since 2021 from interim Gasteig HP8.
Global Village (Dubai)
Global Village (Dubai): seasonal multicultural theme park opened 1997 on Dubai Creek, since 2005 at Exit 37, Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Road. Country pavilions, shopping, dining, rides; Season 29 drew 10.5 million guests; Season 31 opens 14 October 2026.
Gran Teatre del Liceu
Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona opera house on La Rambla founded 1837, inaugurated 1847, burned 1861 and 1994, reopened 1999; 2,292-seat La Scala-inspired hall; 2026/27 season themed (Des)sacralitzar opens with Neshat's Aida.
Grand 1894 Opera House (Galveston)
The Grand 1894 Opera House is a restored Romanesque Revival theater at 2020 Postoffice Street in Galveston, Texas, opened in 1895 and now a nonprofit performing arts venue.
Grand Island Opera House
The Grand Island Opera House, opened in 1883 as Bartenbach's Opera House, was a 1,000-seat second-floor theater in Grand Island, Nebraska, hosting Buffalo Bill and Sarah Bernhardt.
Grand Ole Opry
The Grand Ole Opry, also called the WSM Barn Dance, is Nashville's weekly country music radio show and live stage program, broadcast since November 28, 1925 on WSM, the longest-running radio show in U.S. history, now at the Grand Ole Opry House.
Greenfield, Iowa
Greenfield, Iowa, is the county seat of Adair County, founded 1854-1856 on a Lancaster-style town square. Known for the 1896 E.E. Warren Opera House, restored as the Warren Cultural Center in 2012, and as the filming site of Norman Lear's Cold Turkey.
Großer Saal, Musikverein
The Großer Saal, or Golden Hall, is the main concert hall of Vienna's Musikverein, opened in 1870 and home of the Vienna Philharmonic's annual New Year's Concert.
Guangzhou Opera House (广州大剧院)
Guangzhou Opera House (广州大剧院), Zaha Hadid Architects' twin-boulder performing arts center on the Pearl River in Guangzhou; 1,800-seat opera hall, opened May 2010, GRG acoustic interior, early parametric architecture.