The Bridgewater | |
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| Address | Lower Mosley Street Manchester M2 3WS |
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| Location | Manchester, England |
| Coordinates | 53°28′31″N 2°14′45″W / 53.47528°N 2.24583°W |
| Operator | SMG Europe[1] |
| Type | Concert hall |
| Capacity | 2,355 (+16 wheelchair spaces) |
| Construction | |
| Built | 1993–96 |
| Opened | 11 September 1996 |
| Website | |
| www | |
The Bridgewater Hall is a concert venue in Manchester city centre, England. It cost around £42 million to build in the 1990s,[2] and hosts over 250 performances a year. It is home to the 165-year-old Hallé Orchestra as well as to the Hallé Choir and Hallé Youth Orchestra and it serves as the main concert venue for the BBC Philharmonic.
The building sits on a bed of 280 springs intended to insulate it from external sound. The hall is named after the Third Duke of Bridgewater who commissioned the eponymous Bridgewater Canal that crosses Manchester, although the hall and waterside frontage is situated on a specially constructed arm of the Rochdale Canal.[3]
- ^ "The Bridgewater Hall". SMG Europe. Archived from the original on 1 February 2013. Retrieved 11 October 2011.
- ^ "Bridgewater Hall: 10 Years, Page 1". BBC News. Archived from the original on 22 July 2012. Retrieved 11 October 2011.
- ^ Welch, Adrian (17 April 2010). "Bridgewater Hall Manchester". e-architect. Archived from the original on 26 June 2019. Retrieved 26 June 2019.