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Grand escalier / The grand stairway. Charles Garnier long reflected on the design of the Grand Stairway for the new Opera. In the end, he drew inspiration from the Grand-Thétre in Bordeaux. The steps, which go from concave to convex, are made of white marble from Seravezza (Italy). They hug the curve of the onyx balustrade, the pedestal of which is in green marble from Sweden and the 128 balusters in antique red marble
Sydney Opera House
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These wonderful woman (Janinah Burnett and Lucia Bradford) sang during the opening reception for Kehinde Wiley's New Republic exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum.
As I was out and about taking pictures on an overcast February day, I came through the small town of Catawissa, PA. This old building was on the corner of a very busy cross-roads and it definitely caught my eye. I haven't found much information about the building aside from a fellow poster on Flickr. This building was apparently built around 1869. I'd love to learn more about this sharp old relic.
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Un besazo guapa!
The Sydney Opera House is a multi-venue performing arts centre in Sydney, Australia. It is one of the 20th century's most famous and distinctive buildings.
Designed by Danish architect Jørn Utzon, the building was formally opened on 20 October 1973 after a gestation beginning with Utzon's 1957 selection as winner of an international design competition. The government of New South Wales, led by the premier, Joseph Cahill, authorised work to begin in 1958 with Utzon directing construction. The government's decision to build Utzon's design is often overshadowed by circumstances that followed, including cost and scheduling overruns as well as the architect's ultimate resignation.
The building and its surrounds occupy the whole of Bennelong Point on Sydney Harbour, between Sydney Cove and Farm Cove, adjacent to the Sydney central business district and the Royal Botanic Gardens, and close by the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
Though its name suggests a single venue, the building comprises multiple performance venues which together are among the busiest[citation needed] performing arts centres – hosting well over 1,500 performances annually, attended by more than 1.2 million people. Performances are presented by numerous performing artists, including four resident companies: Opera Australia, The Australian Ballet, the Sydney Theatre Company and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. As one of the most popular visitor attractions in Australia, more than eight million people visit the site annually, and approximately 350,000 visitors take a guided tour of the building each year. The building is managed by the Sydney Opera House Trust, an agency of the New South Wales State Government.
On 28 June 2007, the Sydney Opera House became a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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These actors in Manila, the Philippines, are marking Chinese New Year with a performance of Chinese opera.
Ansonia, CT
November 2021
"Built at 100 Main Street in Ansonia in 1869-1870, the Ansonia Opera House served as the lower Naugatuck Velley’s premier theater and public hall until the Sterling Opera House was built in Derby in 1889. The Ansonia Opera House’s hall is on the third floor of the building, while stores are located on the first floor. Until 1910, the hall was run by a corporation called the Ansonia Hall Company, in which Jeremiah Bartholomew and his descendants held a controlling interest.
Connecticut’s oldest opera house, for sixty years it was the center of Ansonia’s civic and social activity and entertainment, including graduations, dances, recitals, basketball games and boxing matches. Sometime after 1896, additional windows were added to the building‘s second floor. In 1971, the state fire marshal’s office closed the hall to public assemblies. It was later rented out as a gym and then as storage space and is currently in need of restoration."
Upper part of Opera Garnier building, The figural group atop the right avant-corps of the façade, known as L'Harmonie (1869), is 7.5 metres (25 ft) of gilt copper electrotype. It was made by sculptor Charles Gumery Paris France
Even on a cloudy day, Sydney is a great place.
Here's a shot of that iconic building from The Rocks.
Just a little change of pace here, for variety. I've been fascinated by seeing other Flickr members' HDR work of small objects and finally had to try my own.
These opera glasses were owned by Kim's grandmother. The barrels are mother-of-pearl, and they still work quite well, though they haven't been to an opera in quite a while.
Canon A590 IS, CHDK, five DNG images exposed +/- 2/3 stop, merged and tonemapped in Photomatix, additional adjustments in Adobe Camera Raw.
Civic Opera Building. Chicago, IL. Photo by John Lishamer Photography (www.johnlishamer.com) All Rights Reserved. Nikon F3. Nikkor 24mm f2.8 ais. Fujifilm Neopan 400 @800 (expired). Rodinal, 1:50.
A closer look at the lady's gloved hand holding on to her opera glasses in Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s “La Loge”.
Courtauld Gallery, Somerset House.
London, July 2005
Death Valley Junction just outside the National Park. The entire town was bought in 1967 by a New York ballet dancer Marta Becket who decorated, hand painted the interior of the opera house and performed here until her death. This is the motel portion where we stayed. Textured with water photographed where endangered Pup fish live a short distance away in Nevada. The irony of a desert with very limited rainfall which is home to a fish that has survived the environment is amazing to me.
the National Theater (Narodni Divadlo) in Prague
I love theaters (opera theater the most) and wanted to take a shot from this position since ever but I never had the chance to do so.
This time was different: our lady guide was very nice and, differently from other guided tour of theaters I visited before (where visitors were secluded in a lateral viewing position) we could sit right in the middle of the parterre seating area
I took the last seat, aimed up, and here it is...
enjoy
This building once housed Swampland Opera in Toomsboro, Georgia.
"In 1975 Joe Boone, a former Georgia House of Representatives clerk and member of the prominent local Boone family of lawyers, politicians, and newspapermen who owned much of Toomsboro, cleaned up an old store in the middle of town as a place where he and his friends could gather and play country and gospel music. Mills sat in on piano on opening night. Boone called it the Swampland Opera House, and within weeks people were coming from nearby counties to have a steak at the restaurant next door and set up folding chairs at the theater for Saturday performances. Admission was anything you cared to put in the hat. An annual Syrup Festival, named after the local sorghum syrup mill, grew around the music venue in the 1980s and 1990s. Even after Joe Boone died in 1996, a group of locals formed a nonprofit to keep the show onstage."
"But by the end of the century, the vacant properties were too expensive to maintain, and the remaining Boones, now living in Tennessee, were ready to divest their holdings. In November 2000, the opera house, the hotel, the restaurant, the train depot, the syrup mill, the cotton warehouse, the bank, and several other buildings all went up for auction." From Atlanta Magazine Article found at www.atlantamagazine.com/news-culture-articles/toomsboro-f....