Photo PR award for controversial concert hall
mainGermany’s annual PR Picture Award has been awarded to ….
Hamburg’s new Elbhilharmonie.
Not sure what the image is supposed to signify. But since various singers have complained they can’t make themselves heard in the hall, it looks like the place is now doing its best to vanish into thin air.
The photographer is Konstantin Beck.
It’s the top of Count Dracula’s castle.
It’s Karajan’s Alpensinfonie.
My first thought is closing scene from Das Rheingold, but for the thunder and lightning. Valhalla just before the Rainbow Bridge emerges.
Breathtakingly beautiful.
If this is real morning mist über der Elbe, they must have used an expensive drone.
The photograph could also be used in a warning campaign: rising sea levels due to climate change.
A good craftsman should never blame his tools.
Pfft, nothing “controversial” about this hall, Norman. Been to concerts there many times, and you can hear the singers that actually can sing cough cough not Kaufmann cough cough..
I think it’s a great, Turner-like photo. Few concert halls of any acoustical quality ever find themselves in such photogenic meteorological conditions.
What a stunning picture.
Pink floyd effect, perhaps. The sound is obscured by clouds. Lol
I happen to have just attended two concerts at the Elbphilarmonie this past weekend. Seated three rows from the front of the stage — with the orchestra and pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii seen in close up — the acoustic was perfect to me. The piano sound was crystal clear even at such close range, and the blast of the orchestra — even at full strength — did not hurt my ears.
The building itself is not as grand as I expected, and I wish the design (such as the wide stairways) were more friendly to senior citizens. But a great concert hall overall.