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Queen Elizabeth Hall and Purcell Room

(2 Ratings)
Concrete block with excellent acoustics inside

The acoustically superior neighbour of Southbank Centre matriarch the Royal Festival Hall (1951), this two-hall 1967 venue — opened in 1967 with a concert conducted by gay English composer Benjamin Britten — includes the Queen Elizabeth Hall (full-on orchestral concerts, recitals, dance, opera and occasional jazz, rock and beyond) and the much smaller Purcell Room (chamber music, poetry, talks and occasional popular music). Difficult to grasp the actual shape of the exterior, while t...

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