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Ministry of Sound
Ministry of Sound is a London nightclub and record label at 103 Gaunt Street, Elephant & Castle, founded 1991 by Justin Berkmann after New York's Paradise Garage; its label, now part of Sony Music UK, sold over 50 million albums.
Mona Best
Mona Best (1924-1988), mother of Beatles drummer Pete Best, founded Liverpool's Casbah Coffee Club in 1959, where the Quarrymen and early Beatles played; the venue is now Grade II listed.
Moulin Rouge
Moulin Rouge, the Parisian cabaret at 82 boulevard de Clichy in Montmartre, opened 6 October 1889 by Joseph Oller and Charles Zidler; home of the French cancan and the Féerie revue, rebuilt after the 1915 fire, owned by the Clerico family.
Mount Vernon, Ohio
Mount Vernon, Ohio, county seat and largest city of Knox County (population about 17,000), founded 1805 and named for George Washington's home; home of the 1851 Woodward Opera House, Knox Memorial Theater, and the August Music & Arts Festival.
Music venues by place
Music venues by place surveys how music venues are distributed and documented across countries and major cities, pointing to per-place coverage rather than profiling individual venues.
Music venues in Canada
Music venues in Canada range from 19th-century heritage halls like Toronto's Massey Hall, opened in 1894, through 1960s performing-arts centers to arenas such as Montreal's Bell Centre, which holds about 21,000.
National Centre for the Performing Arts (China)
The National Centre for the Performing Arts (国家大剧院), the "Giant Egg", is Beijing's national opera house, concert hall and theatre complex on West Chang'an Avenue, designed by Paul Andreu, opened in 2007.
National Concert Hall, Taipei
The National Concert Hall is a shoebox-shaped classical music venue in Taipei's Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall grounds, opened in 1987 with 2,022 seats and a large Flentrop pipe organ.
National Theater and Concert Hall, Taipei
National Theater and Concert Hall (國家兩廳院, NTCH): Taiwan's first national performing arts complex, opened 1987 in Taipei; palace-style buildings by Yang Cho-cheng with a 2,022-seat Concert Hall and ~1,500-seat National Theater.
Neal S. Blaisdell Center
Neal S. Blaisdell Center, formerly Honolulu International Center, is Honolulu's 22.4-acre city-owned events complex opened in 1964, with an 8,800-seat arena, 2,157-seat concert hall, and 65,000 sq ft exhibition hall.
Nightclub
Nightclub: a late-night private venue for dancing to live or recorded music, also called discotheque or dance club. Known for DJs, dance floors, club lighting, door policies, high sound levels, and a global decline in venue numbers since 2020.
Nippon Budokan (日本武道館)
Nippon Budokan (日本武道館), Tokyo's octagonal martial arts hall in Kitanomaru Park, built for 1964 Olympic judo, later famous as a concert venue since The Beatles' 1966 shows.
Open mic
Open mic (open microphone): recurring public events where anyone performs music, comedy, poetry, or storytelling without a formal booking, via sign-up slots of a few minutes; distinct from jam sessions, rooted in radio, folk coffeehouses, and comedy clubs.
Opera house
Opera house: a purpose-built theater for staged opera combining playhouse staging with concert-hall acoustics; from Venice's Teatro San Cassiano (1637) to Shanghai's 4,200-seat Snøhetta house.
Opera house block
An opera house block was a mixed-use American small-town building with a performance hall above street-level storefronts, built on the Great Plains from about 1870 to 1920.
Opera houses by country
Opera houses by country is an overview of opera houses worldwide, from the first public house in Venice by 1637 to the largest, the 3,816-seat Metropolitan Opera in New York.
Opera houses in other European countries
Opera houses in other European countries is a survey of Europe's principal opera houses, covering Spain's Teatro Real and Liceu, Scandinavia, and Central and Eastern Europe.
Opera houses of the South and West
Opera houses of the South and West were multifunction stage halls in small towns, built between roughly 1867 and 1920 and named for prestige rather than opera.
Oslo Opera House
Oslo Opera House (Operahuset), home of the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet in Bjørvika, Oslo; designed by Snøhetta, opened 12 April 2008, cost 4.3 billion NOK, and famous as the first opera house with a publicly walkable marble roof.
Pala Alpitour
The Pala Alpitour, also known as the Inalpi Arena or Palasport Olimpico, is Turin's largest indoor arena, built in 2005 for the 2006 Winter Olympics.
Palacio de Bellas Artes
Palacio de Bellas Artes: Mexico City's main opera house, begun 1904 by Adamo Boari and completed 1934 by Federico Mariscal, mixing Art Nouveau and Art Deco, Tiffany curtain, 1,590-seat Sala Principal, home of INBAL and national companies.
Palais Garnier
Palais Garnier (Opéra Garnier), the 1875 Beaux-Arts opera house of Paris by Charles Garnier at the head of the Avenue de l'Opéra; Second Empire monument historique with Chagall's 1964 auditorium ceiling; since 1989 chiefly home of the Paris Opera Ballet.
Palais Theatre
Palais Theatre (also Palais Pictures), St Kilda, Melbourne: 1927 Henry E. White art deco picture palace on leased Crown land, Victorian Heritage Register H0947, about 2,888 seats, Live Nation-operated since 2017 after a $26.9 million restoration.
Palau de la Música Catalana
Palau de la Música Catalana, Barcelona concert hall built 1905-1908 by Lluís Domènech i Montaner for the Orfeó Català; only UNESCO World Heritage concert hall (1997), Catalan Modernism landmark.
Paris Opera
The Paris Opera, or Opéra national de Paris, is France's principal opera company, founded in 1669 under Louis XIV and performing at the Palais Garnier and Opéra Bastille.
Performance and community use of small-town opera houses
Small-town American opera houses were civic auditoriums, usually under 500 seats, hosting touring shows, lyceum concerts, dances, and movies rather than opera, declining after 1917 as films and automobiles took over.
Perth Arena
Perth Arena, commercially known as RAC Arena, is an indoor entertainment and sports venue in Perth, Australia, opened in November 2012 and home to the Perth Wildcats.
Power Station (recording studio)
Power Station, also Avatar Studios and now Power Station at Berklee NYC, is a historic Manhattan recording studio founded by Tony Bongiovi in 1977 in a former Con Edison power relay station, known for its live-sound acoustic design, TEC Awards, and clients from Springsteen to Lady Gaga.
Preservation and restoration of small-town opera houses
The preservation and restoration of small-town opera houses is the movement to save 19th- and early-20th-century mixed-use theater buildings, revived by community campaigns since the 1970s.
Private's
Private's (Private's Club, Privates), New York nightclub at 150 East 85th Street, closed 30 June 1981; hosted Madness, The Ventures, Chubby Checker; Joan Jett "I Love Rock N' Roll" video location.