Toronto’s Four Seasons Centre is an utterly gorgeous theatre.  You can find lovely photographs of it all over the place including as the background to this blog. The front of house area is all glass fronted and looks over University Avenue; one of downtown Toronto’s busiest, and noisiest, streets.  There are three hospital ERs within five minutes walk of the FSC so you can work out the siren potential.  Add to that the subway runs under the building and you get some idea of the brilliant engineering required to isolate it acoustically.  Any way, that’s just a preamble to saying that at night, and perhaps especially on a dreary winter evening like last Tuesday, one can see some striking vistas.  I was in the house to see Saariaho’s L’Amour du Loin for a second time and I was up in Ring 3.  In the interval I was struck by the view across the atrium to the street.  I only had my iPod for photography purposes so it’s not a great shot but I rather like it.