Sentence examples for circular orchestra from inspiring English sources

This theatre provided seats for some 12,000 people, and its circular orchestra is backed by a stagehouse and surrounded on three sides by a stone, hillside-supported bank of seats.

The difficulty in achieving audibility to an audience of thousands, disposed around three-fifths to two-thirds of a full circular orchestra in the open air, seems to have been insoluble so long as the performer remained in the orchestra.

The stage buildings of theatres began to receive monumental treatment as well, although the action still took place on the flat circular orchestra and the seats were for the most part still wooden (or were missing the audience sitting upon the bare hillside that was usually chosen for theatre sites) rather than stone.

The entire cosmos was depicted in the drama, represented on a vertical set: above was the seat of the gods, below was the place of exile and punishment, and in the middle was the flat circle of the Earth, represented by the circular orchestra, where the chorus performed.

Development on the site began with the creation of the orchestra, a circular floor of earth 60 feet in diameter with an altar at the centre.

The action occurs on four circular platforms next to the orchestra onstage.

The stage was altered acoustically with double plywood semi-circular partitions that separated the orchestra into five sections to increase reverberation.

For the armory performance, Mr. Gilbert will lead one of three orchestras deployed in a circular pattern on the Drill Hall floor, with the other two conducted by the composers Magnus Lindberg and Matthias Pintscher.

Filmed using 360 degree cameras on a circular stage surrounded by a 170 piece orchestra, it gives the viewer options to view the concert from different perspectives as Beck covers David Bowie's "Sound and Vision".

The centre of the theatre was the original dancing place, a flat, circular space containing the altar of Dionysus, called the orchestra.

In spite of the circular bar in the middle, the five piece colored orchestra and the booths around the wall, it is still spiritually a bank.