The entrance to the Winspear Opera House features the Annette and Harold Simmons Signature Glass Facade, which ascends 60 feet creating a seamless visual appearance between the vibrant red glass panels of the McDermott Performance Hall and the surrounding Sammons Park. The Winspear Opera House is designed by Foster + Partners under Pritzker prize-winning architect Norman Foster and Deputy Chairman Spencer de Grey. The Winspear Opera is the 2010 winner of the Architectural Awards with the United States Institute for Theatre Technology, Inc.The Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House is a 21st century reinterpretation of the traditional “horseshoe” shaped opera house, engineered specifically for performance of opera and musical theatre, with stages equipped for performance of ballet and other types of dance. Conrad Schmitt Studios’ decoration of the Margaret McDermott Performance Hall is a radiant example of the level of beauty on display at the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts.
Today, the Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House provides state-of-the-art performance spaces for The Dallas Opera, Texas Ballet Theater, Broadway productions, and the country’s performing arts.
The Studio decorated and gilded a total of 4200 square feet! Working together with architects Foster + Partners, Conrad Schmitt Studios provided consultation services, decorative samples and 12kt white gold leaf (51% gold & 49% silver) gilding on the wave-like balcony fronts for the three tiers, the box and the orchestra levels for the new performance hall. A 21st century reinterpretation of the traditional architecture’s horseshoe configuration, the Margaret McDermott Performance Hall was designed and decorated to be the measured standard to influence all modern opera houses. The new Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House forms a part of the AT&T Performing Arts Center, a cultural hub, located in the Arts District of downtown Dallas, Texas. To enhance the elegant lines of the Winspear Opera House’s Margaret McDermott Performance Hall.
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