The Bridgewater Hall is a concert venue in Manchester city centre, England. It cost around £42 million to build in the 1990s, and hosts over 250 performances a year. It is home to the 165-year-old Hallé Orchestra as well as to the Hallé Choir and Hallé Youth Orchestra and it serves as the main concert venue for the BBC Philharmonic.
Bridgewater Hall
Bridgewater Hall overlooks the Rochdale Canal
Interior
Main auditorium interior, showing the pipe organ
The Hallé is an English symphony orchestra based in Manchester, England. Since 1996, the orchestra has been resident at the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester.
Antony Inglis rehearsing with the Hallé and the Leeds Festival Chorus
The Hallé's first programme (1858)
The Hallé performing at Jodrell Bank Observatory.
Mark Elder