AMADEUS at concert halls, open-air events and theme parks

From small theaters, big concert halls to open-air events: AMADEUS has the perfect solution for the acoustics indoor and outdoor. With our smart technology we can also achieve modern immersive installations. We are proud to present you our partners and projects. Download a reference list of our projects here.

AMADEUS ACTIVE ACOUSTICS

Vilco | Mozartplatz | Théâtre De Beaulieu, Lausanne | Andermatt Concert Hall | Halle E | König Albert Theater, Bad Elster | CCS Congress Centrum Suhl | HCC Hannover – Kuppelsaal | Congress Centrum Alpbach | Fondation Beyerler | Vilco Kongresszentrum

AMADEUS ACTIVE ACOUSTICS

House of Digitization| Mythos Mozart | 007 Elements | Telekom Summit | St. Margarethen Opera in the Quarry | Opera Graz | Styriarte | Opening of the Wiener Festwochen 2017 | Luma Arles

AMADEUS ACTIVE ACOUSTICS

The perfect acoustic enhancement for live music and speech in a multi-purpose venue, concert hall or theatre.

VILCO: KONGRESSZENTRUM FRANKFURT / RHEIN-MAIN

With its contemporary design, versatile layout, and commitment to delivering top-notch performances, the newly-completed Vilco has firmly established itself as a premier event hall on a national and international level.

Amadeus Acoustics adapted the Vilco to the highest acoustic standards ensuring exceptional performing and listening conditions for classical concerts and leveraging the hall's 72 Renkus-Heinz Loudspeakers and 32 Audiotechnica microphones to serve multiple needs at the touch of a button through the Amadeus Core.

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FORUM MOZARTPLATZ: AN IMMERSIVE ACOUSTICAL SPACE FOR MODERN EVENTS AND WORKSHOPS 

Amadeus Acoustics, in partnership with Rohde Acoustics, contributed to system design and installation for the major reconstruction project at Forum Mozartplatz in central Vienna. 

Working alongside Unverblümt Architekt Di Erich Strolz, Amadeus Acoustics’s role in the larger project of transforming the pre-existing space into a modern venue for business and culture was centered around a multifunction room within the forum.

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THÉÂTRE DE BEAULIEU, LAUSANNE

Nearly 1600 attendees gave a standing ovation to Renaud Capuçon and the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra (OCL) in the inauguration of the Théâtre de Beaulieu on 03.09.2022.

Amadeus Active Acoustics worked on the theatre’s acoustic renovation, optimising the acoustics for symphonic music. The theatre’s acoustic was highly praised by the press.

The Théâtre de Beaulieu is Switzerland’s largest theatre and home of the OCL.

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ANDERMATT CONCERT HALL

With a brilliant concert, the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra inaugurated the new Andermatt Concert Hall, designed by Studio Seilern Architects. AMADEUS Active Acoustics was chosen by Kahle Acoustics to complement the architectural acoustics and add additional volume to this exclusive venue and make it true multipurpose. From symphony concerts to conferences, from events to chamber music performances everything is possible with the optimized presets of the AMADEUS Active Acoustics System.

Read more about this project here.

Pictures: Kanipak Photography / Roland Halbe

It is fascinating how much dynamic range the Andermatt Concert Hall provides. It offers a high degree of intimacy while it sounds like a bigger hall.

— Jonathan Brett, conductor, Andermatt Concert Hall

MOZART’S REQUIEM

When stage director Romeo Castellucci and Ensemble Pygmalion’s musical director Raphaël Pichon premiered their interpretation of Mozart’s requiem at Festival d’Aix-en-Provence in 2019, the work was instantly praised as a modern masterpiece.

However, when Wiener Festwochen contracted Amadeus Active Acoustics to reconfigure Museumsquartier’s Halle E for the spring 2022 prologue of the festival, it was unclear how the Requiem, which had won over outdoor audiences, would be successfully adapted to the festival’s chosen indoor venue.

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Picture: Pascal Victor, Art Com

KÖNIG ALBERT THEATER, BAD ELSTER

With its supraregional charisma, the König Albert Theater Bad Elster is a cultural and social meeting place in the heart of Europe; it is one of the most important and magnificent court theatres there is. The program, which changes almost daily, ranges from cabaret to theatre and concerts. During the hall's renovation, the existing, outdated VRAS system was replaced by AMADEUS Active Acoustics while keeping the existing loudspeakers and microphones, making this a secure and sustainable investment for long-term management.

Anyone can change the hall's acoustics in just a few milliseconds; AMADEUS does not require specially trained personal.

Picture: Jan Bräuer

CCS CONGRESS CENTER SUHL

The largest events and conference venue in Thuringia features amplified concerts, conferences and events. Therefore the natural acoustics are very dry to fit those multi-purpose needs. For the performance of unamplified symphony concerts AMADEUS was chosen to add the missing envelopment and loudness, so important for the authentic interpretation of classical music.

AMADEUS Active Acoustics scans the sound field with nearly invisible microphones. The sound events are then analyzed for their intensity and point of origin. Millions of reflections are calculated as if the walls would be much more reflective and diffuse. Those reflections are then reproduced by more than 100 speakers in the ceiling and side walls of the venue. Intensity, density, composition and tonal balance can be influenced by AMADEUS ad libitum.

Pictures: Robert Kallenbach / CCS Suhl

HCC HANNOVER - KUPPELSAAL

The Kuppelsaal is Germany's largest concert hall with a capacity of 3500 seats. AMADEUS is used to add clarity, proximity and loudness to this huge and reverberant space. The opening night Sir John Eliot Gardiner conducted the London Symphony Orchestra and was intrigued by the result. He knew the hall from the past and was impressed how well every nuance transmitted to the audience and to the fellow musicians.

CONGRESS CENTRUM ALPBACH

The Congress Centrum Alpbach hosts the European Forum Alpbach, which is an interdisciplinary platform for science, politics, business and culture. It connects international decision-makers from all sectors of society with an interested audience and committed young people. AMADEUS was chosen for their new multi-purpose hall to be at the forefront of technology. It is used for concerts, theatre performances, speech lift in conference applications, 3D Audio playback and surround sound cinema projections.

BEYERLER MUSEUM BASEL, SWITZERLAND

For the opening of the Goya exhibition in the famous Beyerler museum in Basel, the artist Philippe Parreno approached AMADEUS for his new multimedia installation using advanced sound design concepts and film. His artwork, based on the Pinturas Negras by Goya, was displayed in a single exhibition room.

The multimedia installation is an art object and as such, specific requirements and effects desired by the artist had to be translated into the use of spatial 3D audio techniques and acoustic settings. The short timeframe for realization of the project added significant pressure as well since the museum was being prepared for the opening night.

Picture: Mark Niedermann

AMADEUS IMMERSIVE AUDIO

AMADEUS creates new sound worlds and the total immersion with 3D sound technologies.

HOUSE OF DIGITIZATION

The House of Digitization (Haus der Digitalisierung) in Tulln, which opened its doors in December 2022, offers a wide range of digitization services to small and medium-sized businesses in Lower Austria.

Amadeus Acoustics played a crucial role in developing the 4,200 square meter exhibition space into a multi-purpose immersive venue.

The Amadeus Core provides multifunctional immersive audio to the center, which frequently demands audiovisual interaction with a 360° LED wall that encompasses the showroom and events area.

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MYTHOS MOZART

Mythos Mozart begins in "Requiem - Mozart's Death", a mysterious room with 1,500 candles. In this initial room, Amadeus Active Acoustics creates a huge cathedral acoustics, letting the spectators interact with the touching sounds of Mozart's last piece.

From there, visitors enter an immersive experience starting in 1791s Vienna, going right through Mozart's mind. All of the immersive audio content, which is reproduced by over 300 loudspeakers, was created with the Amadeus Immersive Audio System.

The museum installation uses 3 Amadeus Cores, which immerse the audience into Walter Wezowa’s newly composed works (based on Mozart motives). It premiered in Vienna on 20.09.2022.

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007 ELEMENTS

007 ELEMENTS is a cinematic installation dedicated to the world of James Bond. It is located 3000 metres above sea level on the top of Gaislachkogel mountain. AMADEUS was used to create an immersive journey through a series of high-tech, interactive galleries, each equipped with a custom-designed 3D Audio speaker system to reproduce the signature elements of the James Bond universe.

Pictures: Bergbahnen Sölden; Photograph Kristopher Grunert

TELEKOM SUMMIT

Amadeus Immersive Audio was chosen by Juergen Swoboda of the company Klangerfinder to produce an immersive film specially produced for the venue and the event. AMADEUS supported the sound design team to create a smooth integration of AMADEUS into the workflow. The AMADEUS 3D Pan plugin was used in Pro-Tools to control sound objects in 3D space.

Picture: Volker Werner

AMADEUS OPEN-AIR

Our advanced audio technology also provides an acoustic enhancement outdoors.

OPERA IN THE QUARRY

Next to the Neusiedler Lake, the St. Margarethen Quarry is an UNESCO World Heritage Cultural Landscape. At the same time it is Europe’s largest natural stage. It covers an area of 7.000 m2 and hosts nearly 5.000 opera lovers. This years production - Mozart’s Magic Flute - was a huge success and attracted more than 91.000 spectators with an occupany rate of 93%.

AMADEUS created the perfect acoustical setting for this Open Air production. More than 100 speakers were installed to establish an immersive journey throughout the opera. The positions of the actors were tracked in realtime and a virtual opera hall was created around the audience. Also soundscapes and different special effects augmented the dialog parts. Virtual birds were buzzing around Papageno acoustically, cave effects, thunders and fire effects where created.

Pictures: Thomas Ludwig

MARIA DE BUENOS AIRES - GRAZ OPERA

For this complex opera production with a stage width of more than 30 meters AMADEUS created an immersive experience for the audience. The positions of the actors were tracked in realtime and AMADEUS produced a dense reflection pattern with more than 60 speakers surrounding the audience. Also the orchestra was projected to the whole width of the stage keeping the soloists close to the orchestra what was essential to make the sensitive timing of the tango music work, while delivering a spectacular wide image of the orchestra.

LA MARGARITA - A BAROQUE HORSE BALLET

Emperors and kings used to bask in the glow of the horse ballets. Here, the high art of classical dressage, the grandeur of baroque music and the dramatic art of the opera form a perfect blend. The styriarte sets out to bring this form of art back to life with “La Margarita”, a story about the fabulous hero Heracles and the tempting Golden Apple of the Hesperides.

The major austrian newspaper der Standard writes:

“The fact that the music is at the center of attention is due to the AMADEUS system, which produces three-dimensional sound scenes. Event the subtleties of musical interpretation reach the audience, which is unusual for this open-air setting, pleasing the balance between both instrumentalists and singers.”

OPENING WIENER FESTWOCHEN 2017

Each year The Wiener Festwochen are celebrating their opening at the Rathausplatz in Vienna. Mistress of ceremonies and hostess of this musical show in 2017 was Conchita Wurst.
Her symphonic concerts, whether at the Linz Brucknerhaus or the Sydney Opera House, have been jubilant festivals. Together with the Vienna Symphonic Orchestra Conchita encountered the incomparable variety that has made the city of Vienna unique for so many centuries.

Together with speakers by d&b audiotechnik AMADEUS created a virtual concert hall around the audience. It helped to bring space to the orchestra mix and made room for the band mix in the frontal speaker system.