Reopening Zurich’s Tonhalle concert hall has been pushed back by a further six months to March 2021 – and at an addditional cost of about eight million US dollars.
The latest excuse? ‘Optimization measures’.
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In another are, small beer compared to the Berlin airport fiasco. Ten years late nearly, if it does open next year, and at least 3-fold over budget.
All I can remember about this place in its earlier state was the intolerably cramped and uncomfortable seating, and an equally overcrowded lobby area. I experienced a Prokofiev piano concerto while in a semi-foetal position.
The Tonhalle seems to make for consistently great sounding recordings.
The Tonhalle Zurich is together with the Laeiszhalle Hamburg and the Musikverein in Vienna the acoustical glory of European “Shoebox”-concert halls.
The Swiss are notoriously careless about organisation, they want to be precise with things but don’t think it worhtwhile to live up to their reputation. When in Bern I once saw a sign on the window of a shop closed for refurbishment: ‘Wir wissen nicht wen wir oeffnen werden aber es wird puenktlich sein.’