Great big place and quite busy. The acoustics are not fantastic and you lose some or the effect of…read morethe symphony.

This is a fine and engaging venue for classical performances. The clever and avante-garde design…read moreadds visual appeal but also creates a sense of an intimate venue while seating a large audience. There might not be a bad seat in the whole place. The seats, by the way, are deeply padded bent-ply with wide armrests (wide enough to share). You will be comfortable here. Food and beverages are available but expensive. I tried the Proseco with Hibiscus Blood. It was terrific. The acoustics are curious. Compared to the lush, warm sound of the Munich Opera House, the sound here is crisp and detailed - perhaps a little bit too crisp and too detailed. The higher registers seems to explode through the room. Sometimes this gives life and punch to the music, but at other times it is the aural equivalent of shining a bright fluorescent light on the Mona Lisa. It must be an unforgiving place for the performers, too. The downside is that the venue itself is not an experience. Historic venues like the Opera House are themselves a feast for the mind and the senses. This venue is about presenting the performance as vividly and clearly as possible - here it succeeds admirably.

Went to see Rusalka last weekend in Pasinger Fabrik. WOW! What a nice venue to see a show! Besides…read morethe show being awesome, the experience the venue itself brings is just amazing. The audience can choose to sit around tables, where they can order drinks and snacks before the show and during the break. What I found really to be a different and interesting experience is that it is such a small and cozy venue that you are actually sitting literally next to the orchestra. The show is taking place just 1 meter away from where you are located.

You'll be surprised to find mid-century modernist architecture inside this most traditional of…read moreBavarian palaces. But splendid it is, with tapestries of Greek mythological figures adorning the walls to recall the royal family's fondness for classical statuary. They also help give the hall excellent acoustics. The most distinctive element of the hall's design--indeed, the oddest--is the cloakroom. You need to walk through it to enter the hall, and it's absolutely massive. In fact, I think it's bigger than the auditorium. Did the architect have a coat fetish?

Nice Little Place for Theater. The chairs are Small but the Atmosphere is good.read more