Vahdat Hall

Talar -e Rudaki ( Rudaki Hall, today Vahdat Hall ) is the opera house and concert hall of Tehran, which is named after the Persian poet Rudaki.

The Talar -e Rudaki was built on the initiative of Schahbanu Farah Pahlavi on a 15,700 m² plot of land and opened on 25 October 1967. The building consists of an opera house with an attached to the auditorium seven -story administration building, which also houses the rehearsal rooms and a restaurant are housed. In the building there is also a small lounge for chamber concerts.

In the basement are the rooms of the artist. On the ground floor the waiting hall with the ticket counter, the buffet and the inputs is the auditorium.

The auditorium has 10 inputs. It holds 580 seats and has a ceiling height of 19 meters. The main auditorium chandelier is made of crystal. It has a diameter of seven meters. There are three rows of balconies decorated with plasterwork and wall lights. The boxes are lined with gray carpet and red satin walls.

The stage is divided into four parts. The front part of the stage can be lowered for opera and ballet performances by three meters. The two side parts can be driven up to six meters in height. The rear part of the stage is designed as a rotary stage.

In addition to concerts by Iranian artists of the Philharmonic Orchestra Tehran numerous performances with the participation of international musicians and conductors such as Henryk Szeryng, Claudio Arrau and Herbert von Karajan took place. Performances of the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra and the Berlin Philharmonic, and opera and ballet performances by internationally renowned ensembles took place in the Rudaki Hall. Maurice Bejart created in collaboration with Iranian artists independent Persian choreographies, which were listed in Tehran in the Talar -e Rudaki and in Persepolis in the 2500 years anniversary of the Iranian monarchy. Also the mime artist Marcel Marceau has performed with his program in the Rudaki Hall.