Esplanade Concert Hall

Love the location of this place. The esplanade concert halls is situated iconic-ally in the esplanade building which is the heart of the ART SCENE in Singapore. Love the extravaganza feel of the place, laced with medium height red carpet and simple state of the art acoustically perfectly designed walls. The natural acoustics of the concert hall is designed to amplify the appropriate tones to allow almost perfect acoustics at every performance, while you will not get any sharp echos or feedbacks. With its start of the art sound and video equipment, we could expect fantastic visual and sound at every performance and optimum sound at almost every location of this 1000 seater with 2 levels of circle seats.

Love the spacious stage and the well designed seats that is both comfortable and has ample leg room. Air-conditioning quiet and the noise at the Foyer is well insulated.... Its indeed a very grand place and the Orchestral concert I went to is a superb test of the acoutics of the place. I could hear almost every instrument performed with the very low bass to the extremely high ting-ing of the triangle.

The foyer is also pretty grandly decorated and for a performance here, everybody is beautifully dressed in their gowns and glam wear... One of the reasons I love to come to this place for a performance or concert is to be able to spend a glam night and to scratch that arty-farty spot of mine :)

Everyone should go to a performance at the esplanade concert hall at least once and enjoy the CROWN JEWEL Seats and feel arty-farty-ly glam... Its for good fun and memorable experience. Get a few friends and dress up old english, just don't snore so loudly... it would be fine :)

Sorry no pictures allowed and watch the bag check, no cameras and even mobile phones looking cameras.... I am saddened by this.... :)

Concert Etiquette Applicable, so behave yourself :)

With the Art Festival here, I guess it is a fitting time to review this art icon.

The concert hall seating arrangments consist of 2 or 3 storeys. The more expensive tickets will buy here a place on the ground floor, accessing these seats will not require climbing of stairs or escalators. The 2nd and 3rd expensive seats will need stairs and escalators respectively to reach. This is because these are box seats that overlook the stage. But whichever you choose, from experince and observation, the seats are usually quite close with little leg space for you to stretch, so do arrive early to avoid squeezing through people.

It is also a good idea to bring along a binocular to get a close look at the performers. Take note that for some performance even the drinking of water is prohibited to avoid distraction to the performers, to do so you have to go to the resting areas outside where drinks are sold at exorbitant prices.