VirtualGlobetrotting: Theatres - Amphitheatre

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USANA Amphitheatre
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By: adrbr.
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USANA Amphitheatre is a 20,000-seat outdoor amphitheater located in West Valley City, Utah. It is used for outdoor concerts. Past performers of the venue include: Kenny Chesney, Jessica Simpson, 50 Cent, Prince, Dave Matthews Band & Def Leppard. It offers a view of the Wasatch Mountains.

Alpine Valley Music Theatre
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By: tlp333.
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I've always loved this outdoor amphitheatre and have seen many great concerts here. This is also the site of the helicopter crash that took the life of Stevie Ray Vaughn after he had just jammed with Eric Clapton, Robert Cray and other great blues musicians.

Gorge Amphitheatre
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By: letnry.
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Carved in the high basalt cliffs overlooking the Columbia River gorge, the lawn-covered terraces of the Gorge amphitheatre are the hottest destination for the concert enthusiasts in the Pacific Northwest. A magnificent view, often compared to the scenic beauty of the Grand Canyon, and outstanding acoustics have earned the facility recognition as a "venue of choice" for major artists worldwide. Lovely weather to the tune of more than 310 days of sunshine per year, with the temperatures in the 70-90 degree range from spring to fall, enabled the 20,000 seat Gorge amphitheatre to host 25 concerts in the 2001 season. Over the years, it has staged performances by some of the biggest names in show business including: Aerosmith, Jimmy Buffett, Britney Spears, Tina Turner, Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, KISS, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Chicago, Joni Mitchell, Dave Matthews, Phish, Metallica, Rod Stewart, Creation Festival, Van Halen, James Taylor, Paul Simon, KUBE Jam, BB King, Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne, Shania Twain, John Mellencamp, Lillith Fair, Ozzfest, Motley Crue, Santana and many, many more. These acts draw music lovers from a huge population area encompassing Seattle, Tacoma, Spokane, Portland, The Tri-Cities, British Columbia, Idaho, and Montana.

San Manuel Amphitheater
AKpilotEMT (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: AKpilotEMT.
Located in Glen Helen Regional Park, this is the largest outdoor amphitheater in the United States, with a capacity of over 65,000 in the seats and on the lawn combined. This extremely popular Southern California venue was sadly corporately renamed in the 1990's and again a few years ago and surely it'll be renamed again in the future.

Cruzan Amphitheatre
adrbr (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: adrbr.
Cruzan Amphitheatre is a 19,000-seat open-air music venue in West Palm Beach, Florida. The facility, owned by Live Nation, is a modern amphitheatre used primarily for concerts and other performances.
Since opening, the venue has gone through numerous name changes. It was initially named Coral Sky Amphitheater because the seats face into the west, often in view of a colorful sunset. After many years becoming familiar with that name, people still use that name despite the various sponsorships and name changes since then. The first sponsor was Mars Music, but when Mars filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2002, the Coral Sky name was returned. After a short return to the Coral Sky name, it changed again when Sound Advice became the new sponsor. In early 2008, the venue was renamed again following a new sponsorship agreement with Cruzan Rum.
On June 15th, 1998, the Spice Girls performed to a sold out crowd as part of their Spiceworld Tour. It was their first ever American concert and it was the opening night to the American leg of the tour. The group performed as a four piece due to Geri Halliwell's departure from the group just 16 days before the concert.

Cadence Bank Amphitheatre
kjfitz (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: kjfitz.
One of the nicest outdoor amphitheaters in the country. The Works Progress Administration built the amphitheater. First performance held in the amphitheater was June 20, 1944.
Formerly known as Chastain Park Amphitheater.

Arena di Verona
DonMartini (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: DonMartini.
The Verona Arena is a Roman amphitheatre in Verona, Italy, which is famous for the opera performances given there. It is one of the best preserved structures of its kind.
The building was built in AD 30 on a site which at the time was outside of the city walls. The ludii (shows and games) staged there were so famous that spectators came from many other (sometimes very distant) places. The amphitheatre could host more than 30,000 spectators.
The round façade was originally in white and pink limestone from Valpolicella, but after a major earthquake in 1117, which almost completely destroyed the outer ring, except the so-called "Ala", the Arena was used as a quarry for other buildings. The first interventions to recover its functionality as a theatre were started during the Renaissance.
Thanks to its outstanding acoustics, the building lends itself to musical performances, the practice of which began in 1913. Nowadays, four productions are mounted each year between June and August.

Hollywood Bowl
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By: jspencet.
The Hollywood Bowl
Original design by Frank Lloyd Wright. New design by Frank Gehry.

Red Rocks Amphitheatre
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By: nic.

Toyota Pavilion at Montage Mountain
adrbr (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: adrbr.
Montage Mountain Amphitheater started as a temporary facility located behind the ski lodge on Montage Mountain. In 1999, Lackawanna County built a permanent amphitheater further down the mountain. The new location has reserved seating for 7,000 people covered by the pavilion roof, with room for another 10,500 on the lawn. In 2002 the operation of the facility was taken over by Clear Channel Communications and the building became known as the Ford Pavilion at Montage Mountain. In June of 2005, upon their first visit to Northeastern Pennsylvania and the Toyota Pavilion, the Dave Matthews Band became the first concert to ever completely sell out the pavilion attracting over 18,000 people. On their return in July of 2006, they once again sold out the pavilion. In 2006, the entertainment group splintered away from Clear Channel, becoming a new, independent, company, Live Nation, and the amphitheatre changed name again, this time to Toyota Pavilion on Montage Mountain. On February 15, 2007, the tent roof of the pavilion collapsed under the weight of snow and ice that had fallen from the Valentine's Day Blizzard of 2007. A new roof was completed in time for the summer 2007 concert season.

Ephesus
Hinkkanen (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Hinkkanen.
Ephesus was one of the most important ancient Greek cities in Asia Minor. It was distinguished for the Temple of Artemis (Diana), who had her chief shrine there, for its library, and for its theatre, which would have been capable of holding 25,000 spectators. The Temple of Artemis was, according to Pausanias, the largest building of the ancient world and one of the Seven Wonders of the World. Almost nothing is left of it on the site, most of its surviving artwork resides now in British Museum.

Sleep Train Amphitheatre
mlc1us (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: mlc1us.
Formerly Coors Amphitheatre

ALLTEL Pavilion at Walnut Creek
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Oklahoma City Zoo Amphitheater
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By: kjfitz.

Theatre of Dionysus
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By: mlc1us.
The Theatre of Dionysus was a major open air theatre in ancient Greece, built at the foot of the Athenian Acropolis and forming part of the temenos of "Dionysus Eleuthereus". Dedicated to Dionysus, the god of plays and wine (among other things), the theatre could seat as many as 17,000 people, making it an ideal location for ancient Athens' biggest theatrical celebration, the Dionysia. It became the prototype for all Theatres of ancient Greece.

Jiffy Lube Live
boothy443 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: boothy443.
Formerly Known As Nissan Pavilion

Greek amphitheater at Point Loma Nazarene University (PLNU)
The first Greek amphitheater in North America was built on this site in 1901. It was used for sporting events and theatrical performances. The tessellated pavement and stoa were added in 1909. The theatre was the site of a number of productions of Greek and Shakespearean dramas.

Blossom Music Center
Mahab (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Mahab.

Bethel Woods Center for the Arts
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By: kjfitz.
In 1997, the site of the Woodstock concert and 1,400 acres (5.7 km2) surrounding was purchased by Alan Gerry for the purpose of creating the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts. The Center opened on July 1, 2006 with a performance of the New York Philharmonic. On August 13, 2006, Crosby Stills Nash & Young performed to 16,000 fans at the new Center — 37 years after their historic performance at Woodstock.

Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre (Deer Creek)
yubyub41 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: yubyub41.
This is the Live Nation owned outdoor amphitheater. It is the largest outdoor music venue in central Indiana with 6,000 seats under a pavilion and about 18,000 general admission lawn seats.

Tallinna Lauluväljak (Tallinn Song Festival Grounds)
AlbinoFlea (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: AlbinoFlea.
From www.laulupidu.ee:
One of Tallinn's most worthwhile places to visit is located at the foot of the Lasnamägi area of the city on Pirita Road near the sea. This place is the Tallinn Song Festival Grounds where the All-Estonian Song Festivals have been held since 1928. Also festive ceremonies, concerts, open-air performances, exhibitions, and other events take place in this vast area. In 1988 several manifestations abounding with people were organized where patriotic songs were sung and blue-black-white flags were flown after a lengthy time of them being forbidden. These summer days were later called the "singing revolution". At the end of the summer, on September 11, a huge event took place at the Tallinn Song Festival Grounds entitled "The Song Of Estonia". More than 300,000 people participated, and for the first time the re-establishment of Estonia's independence was openly demanded.
Lauluväljak
The most dominant feature of the Tallinn Song Festival Grounds is the Song festival stage - the only one of its kind. The current grandstand-like sounding board structure, which holds up to 24,000 singers, was erected in place of the previous one for the 1960 All-Estonian Song Festival. The construction of the song festival stage is original and unique. The space between the point of support of the front arch is 73 meters. The back arch unites with it at the same points. In between the two arches is the concavo-convex screen made out of wooden shields, which has two convexities - a hyperboloid paraboloid. This way, all the groups of voices can be distinguished but the sound as a whole is directed out to the Song Festival Grounds.
The width of the song festival stage is 120 meters. The 43 steps of the center section rise 18 meters high. The height of the center of the front arch is 36 meters and its diameter is 2 meters. Both of the side walls of the song festival stage reach out to the towers. During the festival, radio and television broadcasts can be made from the south tower. At the top of the 42-meter-high north tower is the festival flame. The building materials of these structures include locally mixed limestone, concrete, wood, and metal. The creators of the project (A. Kotli and H. Sepmann, architects; E. Paalman, engineer; H. Laul and H. Oruvee, consultants) were successful in designing an architectural masterpiece that is whole and unique. This includes a concavity in the shape of an ellipse which is where the audience sits. This area is 200 meters in length and 175 meters in width.

Amphitheatre at Carthage

Amphitheatre of Puteoli

Journal Pavilion
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Amphitheatre of Durres
The Amphitheatre of Durres, built in the 2nd century before Christ, figures amongst the largest monuments of the Antiquity. It is the only monument of this type on Albanian territory. The amphitheatre is situated in the center of the city of Durres, the main port of Albania. The founding of Durres, a city mentioned by writers and historians, dates back to 627 before Christ.