Salzburg Festival Workshops Reveals New Concert Shell For the Haus für Mozart

By Afton Wooten
(Photo credit: SF/Neumayr/Leo)

Salzburg Festival Workshops has revealed its newly constructed concert shell for the Haus für Mozart.

The new shell has significantly improved the acoustic performance conditions at the venue. Designed and constructed in the Festival’s own workshops, the concert room is a tailored construction consisting of two side walls, a back wall and a ceiling. This also enables musicians to hear each other better, reflecting sound and directing it into the auditorium in a clear, natural and undistorted manner. The construction will be used mainly for orchestral concerts with or without chorus.

The team was made up of the Salzburg Festival’s Technical Director’s office, including its director Andreas Zechner and the designated manager of the props and sets workshop Sandrina Schwarz, who was responsible for the project and its design.

“We are delighted that the new concert shell constructed by our own workshops enables us to significantly improve the acoustic conditions at the Haus für Mozart, which were already good to begin with,” says Artistic Director Markus Hinterhäuser in a press release.

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