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Pulse (nightclub)
Pulse was an LGBTQ+ nightclub on South Orange Avenue in Orlando, Florida, opened in 2004 and the site of the June 2016 mass shooting that killed 49 people.
Queen's Hall
Queen's Hall (1893–1941) was a concert hall in Langham Place, London, home of the Proms from 1895 and base of the BBC Symphony and London Philharmonic orchestras, destroyed by incendiary bomb on 10 May 1941.
Radio City Music Hall
Radio City Music Hall, at Rockefeller Center in Midtown Manhattan, opened December 27, 1932 as an Art Deco theater designed by Edward Durell Stone and Donald Deskey. It remains the world's largest indoor theater, home of the Rockettes and the Christmas Spectacular, with a landmarked 1932 hydraulic stage.
Rainbow Bar and Grill
Rainbow Bar and Grill (The Rainbow Bar & Grill), a 1972 rock hangout restaurant at 9015 Sunset Blvd, West Hollywood, founded by Valentine, Adler, and Maglieri; home of the Lemmy Lounge and Hollywood Vampires lore.
Red Oak Opera House
The Red Oak Opera House in Red Oak, Iowa, names two venues: a second-floor hall used from about 1881 to 1909 and the Beardsley Opera House of 1909.
Red Rocks Amphitheatre
Red Rocks Amphitheatre: 9,525-capacity open-air concert venue near Morrison, Colorado, also called Red Rocks Park Amphitheatre; dedicated June 15, 1941, built by the CCC between sandstone monoliths, a National Historic Landmark and top-ranked Pollstar amphitheater.
Rhoads Opera House fire
Rhoads Opera House fire, Boyertown, Pennsylvania, January 13, 1908: a stage kerosene fire during a church play killed about 170 people and led to Pennsylvania's 1909 fire safety law.
Rogers Stadium
Rogers Stadium is a 50,000-capacity seasonal outdoor concert venue in North York, Toronto, opened in June 2025 on the former Downsview Airport lands and operated by Live Nation Canada.
Roxy Theatre (West Hollywood, California)
The Roxy Theatre is a 500-capacity all-ages music club at 9009 Sunset Blvd on the Sunset Strip, West Hollywood, opened September 20, 1973 by Lou Adler and Elmer Valentine; Neil Young opened it, and The Rocky Horror Show had its first American run there in 1974.
Royal Albert Hall
The Royal Albert Hall, opened by Queen Victoria in South Kensington on 29 March 1871, is a Grade I listed elliptical concert hall funded by Great Exhibition profits, with 999-year seat leases, a famous dome echo, and BBC Proms residency.
Royal Festival Hall
Royal Festival Hall is a 2,700-seat concert hall on London's South Bank, opened in 1951 as the Festival of Britain's only permanent building and now the largest Southbank Centre venue.
Royal Opera House
Royal Opera House (Royal Ballet and Opera), London's Covent Garden opera and ballet theatre, third on its site since 1732, present building by E.M. Barry opened 1858, home of The Royal Opera and The Royal Ballet under the Covent Garden Foundation charity.
Royal Opera House Muscat
Royal Opera House Muscat (ROHM), Oman's flagship performing arts venue and the first opera house in the GCC, opened 12 October 2011 with Turandot; ~1,100-seat auditorium, House of Musical Arts, annual October-May seasons.
Ryman Auditorium
Ryman Auditorium, the "Mother Church of Country Music," is a 2,362-seat Nashville concert hall opened in 1892 as the Union Gospel Tabernacle and home of the Grand Ole Opry from 1943 to 1974.
Saitama Super Arena (さいたまスーパーアリーナ)
Saitama Super Arena (さいたまスーパーアリーナ), now GMO ARENA saitama, is a multi-purpose indoor arena in Saitama City, Japan, opened 2000, whose 15,000-ton Moving Block converts it between 5,000-seat Arena Mode and 37,000-seat Stadium Mode.
Sapporo Concert Hall (Kitara)
Sapporo Concert Hall Kitara is a classical music concert hall in Nakajima Park, Sapporo, Japan, opened in 1997 as the home of the Sapporo Symphony Orchestra.
Semperoper
Semperoper: Dresden opera house by Gottfried Semper, home of the Saxon State Opera and Staatskapelle Dresden. Three buildings: 1841 (burned 1869), 1878, destroyed 1945, rebuilt 1985. Wagner and Strauss premieres.
Seoul Arts Center (예술의전당)
Seoul Arts Center (예술의전당), Korea's first combined arts complex, opened 1988–1993 in Seocho-gu, Seoul: seven venues including the 2,505-seat Concert Hall and 2,283-seat Opera Theater, plus three art museums, on a hillside campus.
Sidney Myer Music Bowl
Sidney Myer Music Bowl, "the Bowl", is an outdoor bandshell in Melbourne's Kings Domain, opened 12 February 1959, funded by a £200,000 Sidney Myer Fund gift, designed by Barry Patten with engineer Bill Irwin as a pioneering tensile cable structure, capacity 13,000.
Sound City Studios
Sound City Studios, Van Nuys recording studio opened 1969 in a former Vox building; home of a custom Neve 8028 console used on Nevermind, Fleetwood Mac and Tom Petty records; closed 2011, console moved to Dave Grohl's Studio 606.
Sphere (venue)
Sphere, also known as MSG Sphere Las Vegas, is an immersive entertainment venue in Las Vegas opened in 2023; it cost $2.3 billion, the most expensive entertainment venue there.
Sunset Strip
The Sunset Strip is a roughly 1.6-mile stretch of Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood, California, famous since the 1920s for nightlife, the Whisky a Go Go, the 1966 curfew riots, and rock venues like the Roxy and Viper Room.
Sydney Entertainment Centre
Sydney Entertainment Centre (Qantas Credit Union Arena, Kingdome) was a 12,000-capacity indoor arena at Haymarket, Sydney, opened May 1983, home of the Sydney Kings, closed December 2015 with an Elton John concert and demolished in 2016 for ICC Sydney.
Sydney Opera House
Sydney Opera House, on Bennelong Point, Sydney Harbour: performing arts centre designed by Jørn Utzon, built 1959–1973 with Ove Arup, opened 20 October 1973, World Heritage-listed 2007, sails derived from one sphere.
Symphony Center
Symphony Center, Chicago: concert complex at 220 S. Michigan Avenue housing Orchestra Hall (1904, Daniel Burnham) and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra; expanded 1995–97 for $110–120 million, opened as Symphony Center October 4, 1997.
Symphony Hall, Boston
Symphony Hall is a Boston concert hall, opened in 1900 as home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and often cited among the world's best-sounding venues.
Tanglewood
Tanglewood is the Boston Symphony Orchestra's summer music campus and festival in Lenox and Stockbridge, Massachusetts, since 1937. It hosts the Koussevitzky Music Shed, the Tanglewood Music Center academy founded by Serge Koussevitzky in 1940, Seiji Ozawa Hall, and over 350,000 annual visitors.
Teatro Carlo Felice
Teatro Carlo Felice is the opera house of Genoa, Italy, on Piazza De Ferrari, inaugurated in 1828 and named for King Carlo Felice of Sardinia.
Teatro Colón
Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires opera house opened 25 May 1908 with Aida; designed by Tamburini, Meano, and Dormal; famed for acoustics, 2,487 seats, and resident companies. Distinct from namesake theaters in Bogotá and A Coruña.
Teatro di San Carlo
Teatro di San Carlo, Naples opera house at via San Carlo 98, opened 1737 under Charles III of Bourbon; oldest opera house still in operation, predating La Scala by 41 years; premieres include Lucia di Lammermoor and Luisa Miller.