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Even on a cloudy day, Sydney is a great place.
Here's a shot of that iconic building from The Rocks.
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 shot is from my collection taken at the Vivid Festival in Sydney. www.vivid.com.au A great event that began last year and has been taken to another level this year!
Some call for this building to be a wonder of the world. I don't know if I agree but it sure is impressive.
What impresses me most is when you're close enough to touch it you realise it is covered in tiles no bigger than my hand!
For a BIGGER impact make sure you view LARGE on black!... it's well worth it!
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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....
A quote about opera from the Terry Pratchett book Maskerade. The quote is not exact to what's in the book, as I only listen to the book on tape and got this quote online and couldn't check it against the original text.
blogged: workthatneedle.blogspot.com/2011/07/apologies-for-absence...
Wilhelm Riphahn, Architect
When it became apparent that there was a lot of renovation-work to be done on the opera, and especially after it was given a price-tag, voices became loud which said, "for that much money we could almost build a new one."
Well, it seems that these were exactly the words that somebody said after WW2, when the condition of the damaged 'old' opera house on Rudolfplatz was scrutinized. The result is pictured above, and there is now a hotel on Rudolfplatz.
Anyway, the decision was positive, in that this structure will be completely refurbished and the neighboring theatre (Schauspielhaus) will be razed and a new structure with new concept will be built in its place (whether that is positive remains to be seen!!)
Explored.....
I thought I would point my new camera at my favourite subject. I must confess I quite like the result.
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The Opéra de Nice is the principal opera venue in Nice, France, which houses the Ballet Nice Méditerrannée and the Nice Philharmonic Orchestra. It offers three types of performances: operas, ballets and classical music concerts
It has been a year and half since my wife and I took our last vacation! This time our moto was "go big or go home" and as the stars aligned for vacation times and work schedules we found ourselves shooting for a January vacation. We weighed the options and Australia, being their summer, seemed like a great choice. We planned, saved, and dreamed and months later, on a hot summer morning in January at 6am I found myself in front of the opera house in awe! I was realizing what seemed liked a totally crazy idea months before had really come true. I was in front of the opera house and it was beautiful!
The city was just starting to wakeup, and people were out for their daily runs and doing boxing workouts in the park! It was wonderful to see the city start to come alive! I tried so hard to take it all in. The smells, the sounds, and the feeling of the wind coming off the water. It was a moment I'll never forget!
How it was done:
Canon 5d mkII, 16-35mm II
35mm, F11, ISO 50, 196 sec (3min 15sec)
This photo was achieved use a Lee Big Stopper Filter, with a modified Coken Zpro Filter Holder. Only basic adjustments in Lightroom after import to achieve final look.
Today, May 1st 2019, on the beach, I met Daveda Karanas, the mezzo-soprano opera singer who plays the role of Liese in The Passenger.
It was so wonderful to talk about the opera with her and discuss this very difficult subject of The Holocaust.
We both agreed that although it is a very difficult issue, we have to keep talking and telling about the Holocaust.
Daveda said that she was shocked to find out that so very many young Americans know nothing about the Holocaust.
I wish I had my camera with me, but I hadn't just because I went swimming.
Daveda was on the beach with her 3 y/o daughter and we had such an interesting conversation.
The Passenger (Passazhirka)
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"The horrors of World War II, still raw today, were fresh in 1959 when Auschwitz survivor Zofia Posmysz wrote a play titled The Passenger from Cabin 45 for Polish radio. The play became the basis of the opera by Mieczys& Weinberg in 1967. The action of the drama takes us from the stylish gentility of a luxury liner's deck to the squalor of a death camp, where cruelty, despair, and unspeakable courage are evident in equal measure.
En route to a new post with her husband, a German diplomat, Lisa is unnerved by the sight of a woman--another passenger--who eerily resembles Marta, one of the inmates Lisa oversaw when she was a prison guard at Auschwitz. The opera moves back and forth in time, alternating the experience of her tortured present, as she struggles to explain her past to her horrified husband, with flashbacks of life at Auschwitz and her manipulative interactions with Marta.
Suppressed for more than 40 years, Weinberg's gripping opera has emerged anew, electrifying audiences."
And now at the Tel Aviv Opera.
“As Liese, the mezzo-soprano Daveda Karanas gave a richly textured performance, with a gleaming voice and first-class acting. She effectively communicated a person being overwhelmed by guilt, as her desperate rationalizations failed her (“I never beat anyone. They appreciated that.”). And somehow, despite her participation in terrible crimes, she came off as more appealing than her weaselly husband, whose horror at learning of her past evaporated when it appeared the secret was safe and would not impede his career.”
The Opera Park reflects six themes: The English Garden, White Nordic Forest, Red North American Forest, Oak Forest, Cherry Grove and Tropical Greenhouse (The Growth House Restaurant or in Danish: Væksthuset Restaurant).
The Opera Park has been awarded the European Garden Award 2025 - marking the 10th award for the project! From a modest lawn to a lush park island in the heart of Copenhagen.
Architects: Cobe.
www.instagram.com/cobearchitects/
(cobe.dk/ - a new website is under construction)
Sydney Opera House forcourt and steps - Unusually deserted in the early morning (during a light rain shower)
Passing by a professional photoshoot, I couldn't help taking advantage of the situation.... View large on black. Without the benefit of light equipment, it needed some treatment: a selfmade texture, and several light and colour adjustments in PS
The above shot is the Oslo Opera House in Norway. I visited Oslo just a few weeks before the mass shooting occurred and sometime before midsummer celebration. The nights were short and daylight was long. It was quite enjoyable and relaxing to shoot during blue hour as i didnt have to rush to get my shots due to the fact that the blue hour was basically the whole night.
The Opera House is the home of the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet and also the national opera theatre in Norway. It looks like a flat iceberg shape with inclined white lines. I went up the slope to its roof to get a view from above and somehow the seamless transition from wall to ceiling reminded me of skate parks. This place is surely a heaven for skaters plus i dont see any guards patrolling around this area.
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Digital Blending \ DRI
Manually blended from 3 exposures +/-2 EV
Shot @11mm, aperture of f/11 with ISO value of 200
Post processing and Adjustments in Photoshop CS4