Browse Descriptions for: Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House

Order By:

Mac

Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 01:11:00

Norman Foster wrapped a glowing red drum in glass and shaded it with a canopy the size of a city block - Dallas's answer to the question of what a 21st-century opera house should be. The Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House, in the downtown Arts District at 2403 Flora Street, opened in October 2009 as the centrepiece of the AT&T Performing Arts Center. The design inverts the form's snobbery: Foster and Partners - under Pritzker winner Norman Foster and Spencer de Grey - turned the traditionally...