Keywords: Chandelier and stage inside the auditorium of the Margot & Bill Winspear Opera House, part of the AT&T Performing Arts Center complex in the Arts District of Dallas, Texas LCCN2015630583.tif 1 photograph digital tiff file color Notes Credit line The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M Highsmith's America Project Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division ; Title date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer ; Forms part of Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M Highsmith Archive ; Gift; The Lyda Hill Foundation; 2014; DLC/PP-2014 054 ; Designed by Foster + Partners under Pritzker Prize-winning architect Norman Foster the opera house was engineered specifically for opera and musical theater performances as well as having special stage design for ballet and other forms of dance The custom chandelier consisting of 318 internally illuminated rods forming a 40-foot-high and 40-foot-diameter lighting fixture retracts into the ceiling once a performace starts Various configurations of the rods can produce several effects such as a Christmas-tree shape--the inverse of what's shown here 2014 Creator Carol M Highsmith Library of Congress Catalog http //lccn loc gov/2015630583 Image download https //cdn loc gov/master/pnp/highsm/30300/30347a tif Original url http //hdl loc gov/loc pnp/highsm 30347 No known restrictions on publication LOC-image highsm 30347 32 47 4204 0 N 96 47 8402 0 W alt 0_source exif_heading PD-Highsmith Images uploaded by Fæ The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M Highsmith's America Project Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M Highsmith Archive Photographs by Carol M Highsmith |