Segerstrom Center for the Arts
Exterior day view of Segerstrom Center for the Arts' Segerstrom Hall.
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| Former names | Orange County Performing Arts Center |
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| Address | 600 Town Center Drive |
| Location | Costa Mesa, California |
| Coordinates | 33°41′34″N 117°52′53″W / 33.692674°N 117.881499°WCoordinates: 33°41′34″N 117°52′53″W / 33.692674°N 117.881499°W |
| Type | Performing arts center |
| Capacity | Segerstrom Hall: 3,000 Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall: 2,000 Samueli Theater: 375 Judy Morr Theater: 250 Arts Plaza |
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| Opened | 1986 |
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Charles Lawrence César Pelli |
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Pacific Symphony Philharmonic Society of Orange County Pacific Chorale |
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Segerstrom Center for the Arts, originally called Orange County Performing Arts Center, is a performing arts complex located in Costa Mesa, California, United States, which opened in 1986. The Center's Segerstrom Hall and Judy Morr Theater were designed by Charles Lawrence and opened in 1986. The Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall, Samueli Theater and the Lawrence and Kristina Dodge Education Center opened in 2006, and were designed by Cesar Pelli, an architect who has received numerous awards and other honors for his work including the American Institute of Architects Gold Medal in 1995.
It is the artistic home to three resident companies: Pacific Symphony, the Philharmonic Society of Orange County and Pacific Chorale.
In addition, the Education Center includes the Studio Performance Space and Boeing Education Lab. It is also the home of the American Ballet Theatre William J. Gillespie School, which opened in 2015. Other features include two private donor rooms, the elegant Leatherby’s Café Rouge and an informal cafe.
The Orange County Museum of Art has announced plans to move to a new building to be built adjacent to the Center for the Arts.
The Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall, which is part of Segerstrom Center for the Arts, has a concert organ - the William J. Gillespie Concert Organ (C.B.Fisk Opus 130). It has 4,322 pipes and 75 stops, including 57 individual voices, 4 manual keyboards with 61 notes each, 1 pedal keyboard with 32 notes. It weighs nearly 30 tons and took approximately 42,000 hours to assemble and install.
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