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Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre

Field	Value
name	Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre
東京芸術劇場
alternate_names	Tokyo Metropolitan Art Space (until 2009)
image_size	250px
cost	¥29,100 million
address	1-8-1 Nishi-Ikebukuro
location_town	Toshima, Tokyo
location_country	Japan
coordinates
opened_date	October 1990
floor_area	49,739 m2
architect	Yoshinobu Ashihara
other_designers	Nagata Acoustics
website
references	Factsheet

東京芸術劇場 Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre is a centre for the performing arts located in Ikebukuro, Toshima, Tokyo, Japan.

History

The theatre opened in 1990 and is operated by the Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture.

Yoshinobu Ashihara was the architect, with acoustical design by Nagata Acoustics.

Performance spaces

The complex contains a concert hall with 1999 seats and a playhouse with 834 seats as well as a number of smaller spaces.

The organ of the great hall, built by the French organ builder Marc Garnier and inaugurated in 1991, is composed of three independent instruments of contrasting aesthetics (Dutch Renaissance, German Baroque and modern French) for a total of 126 sets and more than 9000 pipes. This organ also has the unique feature of having two facades and being able to turn.

References

"Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture". Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture.
"Tokyo Metropolitan Art Space". [[Nagata Acoustics]].
"About Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre". Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre.
"Tokyo".

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