Reduta Bratislava
Home of the Slovak Philharmonic, a Neo-Baroque concert building on the Danube embankment.
The Reduta stands on the site of a royal granary built in the 1770s, which was converted during the nineteenth century into an assembly and ballroom. The present building was designed by the Budapest architects Marcell Komor and Dezső Jakab, constructed between 1913 and 1919 and finished in an eclectic Neo-Baroque manner with Art Nouveau detailing. Alongside the concert hall it originally housed a casino, restaurant and ballroom, and it remains one of the largest historic cultural buildings in the old town.
Since the Slovak Philharmonic was founded in 1949 the Reduta has been its permanent seat, and it also hosts the Slovak Philharmonic Choir and the Slovak Chamber Orchestra. The main concert hall seats around seven hundred and contains an organ; a smaller chamber hall is used for recitals. The building underwent a major renovation completed in 2012. Each autumn it is the principal stage of the Bratislava Music Festival, the country's oldest international music festival.
Highlights
- Concert hall of the Slovak Philharmonic since 1949
- Neo-Baroque interiors by Komor and Jakab, completed 1919
- Main stage of the Bratislava Music Festival each autumn
- Concert organ used for symphonic and recital programmes
