Tag:amenity=concert_hall
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Hall designed for performances of live (usually classical) music. ![]() |
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A Concert Hall is a building or sometimes a room inside a larger building built specifically for the performance of live music, mainly from the classical tradition.
Concert halls differ from theatres in a number of ways: open stage, no or very limited back stage area, significantly different acoustic design, no fly tower, orchestra pit, wings etc. Concert Halls may have a large organ built into their fabric, often with parts of the organ, including the console occupying a prominent position at the rear of the stage area. Equally the rear of the stage often rises in a series of tiers to accommodate sections of an orchestra and choral singers. In many cases, the Sydney Opera House Sydney Opera House being a good example, theatres and concert halls share backstage and front-of-house facilities in a single building.
Notable concert halls include: Tonhalle Tonhalle, Zurich;
Musikverein Musikverein, Vienna;
Royal Albert Hall the Royal Albert Hall, London;
Holywell Music Room Holywell Music Room, Oxford
Royal Festival Hall Royal Festival Hall, London.
How to map
Add a node to the centre of the concert hall (building or space), or draw an area outlining the building. Tag it with amenity=concert_hall
. Add the name=*
. If the concert hall is a dedicated building, map it as a area and add building=concert_hall
.
Use amenity=theatre
+ theatre:type=concert_hall
instead. Consider also adding the predominant genre of music performed with theatre:genre=*
.
Music theatre genre and type tags
The following tags are often used in to further refine facilities tagged with amenity=theatre
.
theatre:genre=philharmonic
– A theatre for orchestral performancestheatre:genre=chamber_music
– A theatre for soloist or small ensemble music performancestheatre:type=concert_hall
– A theatre built as a concert hall
theatre:genre=philharmonic
theatre:genre=chamber_music
theatre:type=concert_hall
See also
amenity=theatre
– More common approach.amenity=music_venue
– Used for facilities where live music is performed for other forms of music such as jazz, folk, pop, rock etc.amenity=events_venue
amenity=convention_centre