The Bolshoi Theatre in Frankfurt, which is actually the Alte Oper Frankfurt, is a venue for concerts and events.

Enter the vestibule through the entrance. The room is decorated with cross ribs that extend to the five axes of the central column, and the cash register is located on the two outer axes.

Five round arches lead to the vestibule, the walls are decorated with pilasters with plinths and Corinthian stucco capitals, and the coffered ceilings are also made of stucco.

The richly decorated foyer is a symbol of the concert hall's past glory and has a strong Roman feel.

After looking up and down this concert hall, Fu Tune had some ideas about this concert hall in his heart.

He looked at the three or four men in suits who were standing in front of him, walked over, shook hands with the leader who stretched out his hand, and said softly.

"Hello, I'm Fu Tune."

"Mr. Fu, I am really glad that you have chosen our Alte Oper in Frankfurt as one of the venues for your world tour this year, although this opera house has just been built, but is no longer used as an opera house, but as a concert hall, which was built between 1873 and 1880 as an opera house of the municipal theater and was destroyed in an air raid in 1944.

Although we at the Frankfurt Opera acquired a new venue on the Theater Square in 1951, the opera house remained in ruins for a long time. It wasn't until 1976 that the reconstruction began, and it was completed in 1981, and she was only thirty-six years old, which is still very young, but to be precise, the buildings on the German side are actually very young, after all, ......"

The person in charge of the concert hall joked happily to Fu Tiao: "After all, many old buildings were destroyed by artillery fire in the war, and most of the existing old buildings are rebuilt according to the shape of the old buildings, not real old buildings, if you really want to see those old buildings, you may need to go to some non-war areas, which have not experienced artillery fire, such as walking west from here, dozens of kilometers away in Wiesbaden, where you can see some real old buildings." ”

"Antique architecture, I know." Fu Tune nodded: "This is the case in many places, and there are many old buildings in Berlin. ”

"Ah, Berlin" the person in charge was stunned, and then said with a smile: "But the old buildings in Berlin are actually much younger than ours, and the historical meaning of the old buildings on their side is actually stronger, such as the Empire State Building, Checkpoint Charlie, etc., if you want to know the details of the Cold War, you can indeed learn a lot when you go to Berlin, as for our Frankfurt, many of the ruins you can see have been destroyed, and there are not many left." ”

The person in charge seemed to be a history buff, happily explaining the history of Germany and the concert hall to Fu Tune.

The two men standing behind him were silent, standing behind them like bodyguards or secretaries.

After the person in charge chatted with Fu Tiao for a lot, he glanced at the watch in his hand, and then stretched out his hand to Fu Tiao.

"So, how about we take a look at the concert hall first? I've been chatting outside for so long, and I haven't shown you what kind of situation the concert hall is like. ”

After that, he motioned for the person behind him to lead the way in front, and then walked beside Fu Diao and said to Fu Diao.

"Because of the reconstruction, our concert hall is actually much more old-fashioned and smaller than other concert halls, after all, the acoustic system and the architectural system are constantly improving, and the theoretical knowledge is also the same...... Do you know the Elbe Hall in Hamburg? ”

"Yes, I just been." Fu Tiao didn't expect to hear the name of the Elbe Concert Hall here, so he couldn't help grinning and spoke.

"I was invited to the first round of performances at the Elbe Hall in Hamburg, and the Elbe performance felt really good."

"Ah......h

The person in charge who wanted to say something suddenly ran out of words.

Originally, he wanted to explain the evolution of the concert hall to Fu Tune, and by the way, his knowledge of the Elbe concert hall.

Why did he not think that Fu Diao next to him not only knew about the Elbe Concert Hall, but could actually be invited to participate in the first round of performances at the Elbe Concert Hall?

He's been busy arranging events at the Alte Oper in Frankfurt lately, and he hasn't paid much attention to what's going on in the music scene lately, so he knows a lot about the Elbe Concert Hall.

After all, the Elb, like the Alte Oper in Frankfurt, is a building within the concert hall system, and it is their job to know which concert hall is what it is.

He had heard about the inside of the Elbe Concert Hall for a long time, and invited the most famous architects in the field of acoustic architecture to come and build the concert hall itself, and he always wanted to go there to see what it was like.

Then he hadn't been to the Elbe Concert Hall yet, so Fu Diao went first.

It was a big blow to his heart.

He could only shrug his shoulders helplessly and sighed.

"Well, I haven't been there yet, I've always heard that the design of the Elbbrück is very good, and I got the design drawings of the Elbbrückianghall from someone else, and I took a brief look, but I think you've been to a lot of different concert halls, right? You should also feel the difference between many concert halls, from the older ones to the current ones, and the interior design of different concert halls is different.

The further the concert hall goes, the more unified the design of the concert hall becomes, the whole is in the shape of a shoebox, the performers are at the front of the concert hall, and then the concert hall takes on a cuboid shape, surrounded by two or three floors of balcony and private rooms, so that more audiences can hear the full content of the concert hall without being affected.

But soon, there was a new design, didn't it mean that sound is transmitted by sound waves? In this case, the concert hall was transformed into a fan-shaped structure, where each place was a fan-shaped area, and the further you went, the fewer the audience, and the further back you went, the more audiences.

At present, the mainstream old-fashioned design is dominated by a rectangular shoebox structure and a scalloped scallop structure.

Soon, however, a new design was proposed: a new concert hall based on the Berlin Philharmoniker Hall. ”

The group went up the stairs and up the stairs.

One of the two secretaries was holding Fu Tiao's luggage, while the other was opening the way in front.

They walked up to the second floor and came to a long corridor that seemed to be a walkway.

As shown in the introduction on the side, this place used to be a place for ordinary audiences to change clothes, but now this place has been converted into a promenade, which gives the audience a wider view and makes the design of the concert hall more logical.

The person in charge did not introduce the history of this trail, probably because he felt that this history did not seem to be worth introducing, so he just took Fu Diao and followed the secretary who opened the way in front of him and walked along this trail.

As he walked, he continued to speak.

"One of the characteristics of those new concert halls is that they began to let people sit in the back of the concert hall, and the concert hall is no longer a simple one-way communication, but a multi-directional communication."

"I've been to the Berliner Philharmoniker, and that's true with the Berliner Philharmoniker, and I remember they used to call it a ...... The Grapevine Concert Hall? ”

"Hahaha, yes, Grapevine, you've been to the Berlin Philharmoniker and the Elbe Concert Hall, and you should find that the two concert halls are actually very similar, right?"

"Yes, there are some details that are different, but these are not particularly problematic."

Fu Tune nodded: "In the performance pool of the Elbe Concert Hall, they use more of a raised, strange-shaped lacquer surface, as if it is a deliberately dug pit, while the orchestra pit of the Berliner Philharmoniker uses a very ordinary lacquer surface that is not very flat and relatively ordinary. ”

"Well, yes, you feel right, worthy of Fu!" The person in charge approvingly.

"As you said, they all have the same design idea, you should be able to feel it, right? Some of the details are just to make the music better to spread, after all, every detail is actually an architectural and acoustic improvement...... Oh yes, we're at the door of the concert hall. ”

As they spoke, they came to the door of the concert hall.

The person in charge asked his secretary to step aside, and he himself took two steps forward and reached out to push open the door of the concert hall, showing everything in the concert hall in front of Fu Tuo.

Looking at the concert hall in front of him, Fu Diao was a little in a daze for a while.

It's not about how luxurious or magnificent this concert hall is.

Or how modern it is.

What shocked him was......

Why does this concert hall feel so small?

He clearly remembered what his agent said to himself, the concert halls he played this year were basically concert halls with 2k people, but how did he feel about the one he saw in front of him......

Isn't it great that this concert hall can have 1k people?

One thing to say, this concert hall didn't feel much different from the Cadogan Concert Hall or the Gavo Concert Hall that he had played before.

Maybe even because of the design, the place is a little smaller.

"Here it is...... Where am I going to play next? ”

"Of course (genau)!"

The person in charge nodded, as if noticing Fu Tuo's surprise, and immediately explained.

"As you see now, no, to be exact, it should be a little bit different from what you see, the concert hall you are going to play in now is a large concert hall with a full 2k people!"

He took Fu Tiao and walked inside.

They are now on the second floor.

No, to be precise, Fu Tiao didn't know exactly what floor they were on now.

Certainly not on the ground floor anyway.

He was even a little skeptical that he was in the concert hall or outside the concert hall now.

The huge staircase resembles the main entrance.

The dense seats were piled up together, and looking over from this side, Fu Tuo's head was a little dizzy.

"Is there really a place for two thousand people here?"

"Of course, there are 2,000 people here, but because of the design and a little bit of history, we can only build a concert hall like it is today, and make the concert hall crowded."

"I don't think it's a little crowded, it's ...... It's crowded, right? ”

“……”

When the person in charge heard Fu Tuo's words, he was also a little embarrassed, and couldn't help pinching the tip of his nose, and said helplessly.

"Because the concert hall itself is like this, we need to create this concert hall as much as possible to keep the concert hall in its original appearance, not completely rebuilt, so we can only do this, after all, among the people who donated to build the concert hall, there are many, many old people, who miss everything in this concert hall, and we can't do anything about it."

“……”

Fu Tiao didn't know what to say.

He walked around the person in charge and walked into the concert hall, looking at the chairs.

These seats are very ordinary seats, made of wood, and the space is not large.

Fu Tiao felt that if the weight was slightly higher, the butt would probably be stuck in such a position, instead of being like other places, the seat size would be slightly loosened to give the audience more space.

Seems to have noticed Fu Tiao's gaze, and the person in charge over there explained.

"These seats are a bit small, but we have a lot of people with obesity who have special seats, and in the more marginal seats, they need to provide us with proof of obesity to buy these seats, which will be slightly larger."

"...... like this"

Fu Tune nodded.

Perhaps it was because 500,000 marks could not buy a loaf of bread back then, and it was difficult for everyone to eat enough when the post-war reconstruction was undertaken, so there must not have been many fat people at that time.

That's why so many seats were created for this concert hall at that time.

And now that the living conditions are better and there are more fat people, such seats are much smaller.

Perhaps this is the price that must be paid if you want to retain a sense of antiquity when history and modernity coexist.

Fu Tiao did not speak, but continued to look at the rest of the content in the concert hall.

They were now in a position that was completely covered on the first floor's head.

It's kind of like a tent roof covering the head on the first floor.

At the same time, there is an additional side suspension design on their side.

Almost all the space is used to the extreme.

If they didn't even find it too depressing to be completely covered, they might even make the concert hall look like a flat anatomical drawing, directly like two or three floors, with the same seats on each floor, layered on top of each other.

Fortunately, it's not four or more years now, otherwise Fu Tiao feels that this place can be a concentration camp.

Such a small space, more than 2,000 seats.

Gee......

What should I do if I suddenly miss the Elb?

Fu Tiao couldn't help but shake his head when he thought of this place.

The Elbe Concert Hall should not be able to perform recently, and because it is newly opened, they are probably about to completely arrange all the performance tasks for this year.

There's no room to plug in.

This concert hall is still small, and I feel that the overall performance style needs to be slightly adjusted, and it needs to be changed according to the content of the concert hall.

After all, there are so many concert halls with such small people, and the feeling of playing in concert halls in other places is completely different.

Normally, playing in an empty concert hall is completely different from playing in a concert hall full of spectators.

When the sound hits the audience, it will be partially absorbed by the clothes on the audience's body.

For most concert halls, you can basically look at the size of the concert hall to determine what kind of performance method should be used in the concert hall.

This concert hall is not at all.

This concert hall is the size of a medium-sized concert hall.

But the number of people in this concert hall is the same as that of a large concert hall.

Then the dynamics and timbre that you need to play need to be changed, and you can't play directly based on previous experience.

Moreover......

Fu Xuan glanced at this concert hall and found that the walls of this concert hall were not soundproof holes in the traditional sense, but somewhat similar to the feel of fabric.

And the feeling of the wall hitting the music back into your ears is completely different.

In addition, there seem to be many, many details that he needs to pay attention to and think about.

These details......

Fu Tiao pondered for a moment, then looked at the person in charge beside him and asked.

"Can I just go and test the piano now?"

"Of course, we have four pianos in this concert hall: Bechstein, Steinway, Fazioli, and Yamaha, which one do you need?"

"Can you try them all?"

"No problem, I'll arrange for someone to help you move all the pianos out for you to use."

The person in charge nodded, waved to the secretary on the side, and asked them to do this, and then took Fu Tiao from the second floor where they were now, from a corner position to the first floor.

After a big circle on the first floor, I finally came to the backstage position.

Here, the person in charge pushed open the backstage door and came to the stage with Fu Tune, and the secretary on the side had already led someone to branch out a few pianos and was starting to tune them.

It was also from this side that Fu Tiao once again felt the shock.

I didn't feel anything when I was on the second floor, but I just thought the concert hall was a little small.

But when he stood on the stage, Fu Tiao felt a strong sense of depression.

The dense seats lay on the ground like beasts, layer after layer, trying to devour the stage.

It's all around with people.

Compared with the shoebox, it has the same plane as the Chopin Philharmonic Hall, compared to the wide scallop-shaped one, and compared to the grapevine-shaped friendly communication with the audience.

The concert hall of the Frankfurt Opera is too depressing.

In the atmosphere of such a concert hall, Fu Tune suddenly thought of several works that were particularly suitable for this concert hall.

(End of chapter)