It comprises three main performance venues (the Royal Festival Hall including the Saison Poetry Library, the Queen Elizabeth Hall and the Purcell Room), together with the Hayward Gallery, and is Europe’s largest centre for the arts. It attracted 4,451,934 visitors during 2018. Over two thousand paid performances of music, dance and literature are staged at Southbank Centre each year, as well as over two thousand free events and an education programme, in and around the performing arts venues. In addition, three to six major art exhibitions are presented at Hayward Gallery yearly, and National Touring Exhibitions reach over 100 venues across the UK. (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia | Southbank_Centre |
Address | Belvedere Road London, SE1 , London, UK |
Opening year | 1951, May 1st |
Official website | https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/ |
Award winning recording of a live concert from the Royal Festival hall London, given by the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Witold Rowicki. Orchestral Concert CDs OCCD 12/2011 full details from www.occds.org. You Tube Video used, Алые паруса 2015 by Marina Lystseva: