Winspear Opera House: Margaret McDermott Performance Hall

The Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House, an unparalleled setting, reinvents the conventional opera house form, inverting its closed, hierarchical structure to create a transparent, publicly welcoming series of spaces that wrap around the rich red glass drum of the performance hall. With two performance chambers and an expansive lobby for special events, this versatile venue offers an array of extraordinary guest experiences. A 21st century reinterpretation of the traditional “horseshoe” opera house, the Margaret McDermott Performance Hall seats 2,200 and features flexible acoustics, and stage and orchestra pit arrangements to accommodate the most dramatic sets and technologically advanced performances of opera, musical theatre, lecture, ballet, and other dance forms. Size: Main stage measures 50 x 60 with a full back and side stage. Capacity: 2,200 fixed seating (with capacity up to 2,300), five levels of seating.