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Nearly a period aft its 1932 opening, Radio City Music Hall is getting a futuristic upgrade. Madison Square Garden Entertainment announced that Sphere Immersive Sound, billed arsenic the astir precocious performance audio strategy successful the world, volition debut astatine the legendary venue this autumn — marking a large measurement successful the company’s program to bring the groundbreaking exertion from Las Vegas’ Sphere to its broader portfolio of venues.
The strategy volition marque its Radio City debut with the 2025 Christmas Spectacular Starring the Radio City Rockettes, earlier rolling retired crossed each concerts and unrecorded events astatine the Music Hall successful January 2026. The upgrade, MSGE says, volition alteration however artists and audiences acquisition dependable successful the storied theater.
“The instauration of Sphere Immersive Sound astatine Radio City is the adjacent improvement successful the astir 100-year bequest of this iconic venue,” said Josephine Vaccarello, evp of unrecorded astatine MSG Entertainment. “It represents a important concern that volition payment some artists and guests. With Sphere Immersive Sound present astatine the Beacon Theatre and Sphere successful Las Vegas, we’re arrogant to proceed expanding this exertion crossed our venues.”
Originally developed for Sphere successful Las Vegas, the 18,600-seat venue known for its elephantine LED exosphere and afloat immersive audio-visual experiences, Sphere Immersive Sound employs next-generation 3D audio beamforming and question tract synthesis to present consistent, crystal-clear dependable to each spot successful the house.
Instead of dependable dissipating unevenly done a space, the strategy precisely directs implicit 7,000 individually amplified loudspeakers, creating what MSG calls “headphone-quality dependable without the headphones.” The result: identical clarity and measurement whether a listener is sitting successful the beforehand orchestra oregon the backmost mezzanine.
Radio City’s signature accumulation — the Christmas Spectacular, returning for its 92nd play — volition service arsenic the system’s inaugural showcase. The Christmas Spectacular has agelong been a testbed for caller amusement technology, from holographic projections to drone choreography.
“With Sphere Immersive Sound, we tin creatively play with euphony and dependable effects to immerse audiences successful Christmas similar ne'er before,” Jessica Tuttle, evp of productions for MSG Entertainment said. “It allows america to alteration the Music Hall into a existent vacation wonderland.”
The Radio City installation volition besides people the rollout of 3D Differential Beamforming, allowing artists and engineers to digitally sculpt and localize dependable wrong the venue, fine-tuning acoustics for some assemblage and performers. The rollout volition besides debut
Intelligent Audio System Synthesis, which integrates non-HOLOPLOT speakers into the Sphere ecosystem, ensuring adjacent dependable sum crossed the hallway — including antecedently challenging architectural areas.
These advances besides unfastened the doorway for Sphere Immersive Sound to beryllium deployed successful a wider scope of venues and configurations beyond MSG’s properties, perchance establishing a caller manufacture modular for performance sound.
From its archetypal opening-night performance to generations of Rockettes performances, Radio City Music Hall has been synonymous with New York entertainment. The installation of Sphere Immersive Sound reinforces MSG Entertainment’s committedness to preserving that bequest portion pushing it forward.
Tickets for the 2025 Christmas Spectacular are on sale now. The amusement opens November 6, 2025, with performances moving done the vacation play earlier the venue’s afloat dependable rollout successful January.
“Radio City has ever been astir creating unforgettable moments,” Vaccarello said, “and with Sphere Immersive Sound, those moments volition present dependable amended than ever.”
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