Dubai Opera
Dhow-shaped performing arts venue seating two thousand, opened 2016 in Downtown Dubai.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Dubai Opera traces why its roofline curves like a dhow, the wooden sailing vessel that carried Emirati traders and pearl divers long before Downtown Dubai's towers existed. You'll hear how Danish architect Janus Rostock chose that shape deliberately, and what it took to make a two-thousand-seat hall reconfigure between a theatre, a concert hall and a flat-floor event space. It also follows the venue's opening night and the performer who filled it.
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