This stunning concert hall is home to the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, which performs here from September to June, and to the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir. Since it opened in 1982, it has also played host to an array of international musical artists, including Cecilia Bartoli, Ray Charles, Ravi Shankar, and Aretha Franklin. The hall was designed to give the audience a feeling of unusual intimacy with the performers -- none of the 2,812 seats is more than 33m (107 ft.) from the stage. The hall closed for 5 months in 2002 for an extensive acoustic enhancement project that also increased the size of the stage.