BAHRAIN NATIONAL THEATRE (BAHRAIN NATIONAL THEATRE)

A floating palace, whose gold and steel reflections on the Arabian Gulf give the impression that the Thousand and One Nights have been restored to the taste of the day in the twenty-first century. Inaugurated in 2012 by King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, this magnificent building designed by the French architects of Architecture-Studio (for example, the Institut du monde arabe de Paris) seems to float between sea and sky, frozen by the mirror of water drawing its prospects. With its golden roof, its huge glass windows and its fine and elegant columns that bear everything, the whole is truly impressive and responds to its neighbor, the National Museum. Only open to the public during performances, walking around this architectural jewel is already an enchantment. If you have the chance to attend a theater or concert, you will discover an amphitheater of 1,001 hallucinating places, all of which are decorated with elm (for acoustics) and curves, which recalls the shape of the Arab butterflies. It was here that the fishermen dropped the mooring before the pearl season. Since then, the greatest international artists have been there, including the Russian Bolchoï, which has given a memorable representation.