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Champagne, cheese, french bread, just a corner of the table, a moment from our posh picnic with friends at Glyndebourne Opera house. Under cover on the upper circle on a wet, misty afternoon, with the brickwork and rooftop of the original country house in the background. Yes, it's that time of year again, already, for an October Glyndebourne weekend.
Actually it has to be called 'sparkling wine', as it's English, from the vineyards at Tenterden, Kent. But the cheese was French :)
Chinese opera (Chinese: 戏曲/戲曲; Pinyin: xìqǔ) is a popular form of drama and musical theatre in China with roots going back as far as the third century CE. There are numerous regional branches of Chinese opera, of which the Beijing opera (Jingju) is one of the most notable.
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Amargosa Opera House Death Valley Junction, California. www.amargosa-opera-house.com/index.htm . If you ever go to Death Valley, be sure to stop by and check out this amazing theater in the desert.
The Zürich Opera House has been the home of the Zürich Opera since 1891, and also houses the Bernhard-Theater Zürich and the Zürich Ballet.
Built to replace the Aktientheater which burnt down in 1890, it was originally known the Stadttheater Zürich, a description that appears on the building’s lintel. It was built by the Viennese architects Fellner and Helmer, who changed their previous design for a theatre in Wiesbaden only slightly. It was built in only 16 months and was opened in 1891, and was the first opera house in Europe to have electrical lighting.
It was the city's main performance space for drama, opera, and musical events until 1925, when it was renamed Opernhaus Zürich and a separate theatre for plays was built
By the 1970s, the opera house was badly in need of major renovations; when some considered it not worth restoring, a new theatre was proposed for the site. However, between 1982 and 1984, rebuilding took place but not without huge local opposition. In response to the combination of high subsidies for opera and the lack of cultural programs for youth, large protests were held in May 1980. The protests became known as the Opernhauskrawalle youth protests or in the local dialect “Züri brännt”, which means “Zurich is burning”, as documented in the 1981 Swiss documentary film of the same name.
The rebuilt theatre was inaugurated with Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg and the world première of Rudolf Kelterborn’s Chekhov opera Der Kirschgarten.
As restored, the theatre is an ornate building with a neo-classical façade of white and grey stone adorned with busts of Weber, Wagner, and Mozart. Additionally, busts of Schiller, Shakespeare, and Goethe are to be found.
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Opera Without Singing
Boston Pops Orchestra conducted by Arthur Fiedler
RCA Victor Red Seal Records/USA (1956)
The Palais Garnier is an elegant 1,979-seat opera house, which was built from 1861 to 1875 for the Paris Opera by the architect Charles Garnier. It was the primary home of the Paris Opera and its associated Paris Opera Ballet until 1989, when a new 2,700-seat house, the Opéra Bastille, with elaborate facilities for set and production changes, opened at the Place de la Bastille. The Paris Opera now mainly uses the Palais Garnier for ballet.
The Palais Garnier is probably the most famous opera house in the world, a symbol of Paris like Notre Dame cathedral, the Louvre, or the Sacré Coeur basilica. This is at least partly due to its use as the setting for Gaston Leroux's 1911 novel The Phantom of the Opera and the novel's subsequent adaptations in films and Andrew Lloyd Webber's popular 1986 musical. Another contributing factor is that among the buildings constructed in Paris during the Second Empire, besides being the most expensive, it has been described as the only one that is unquestionably a masterpiece of the first rank." (Wikipedia)
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I must say I am so fed up with this opera that I just put a link for you to see the dance.......
Local opera and movie house located in McConnelsville. Aptly named for McConnelsville and Malta, Ohio, that the opera house serves. A good write up of its history can be found at this link:
A Ópera Garnier ou Palais Garnier é uma casa de ópera localizada no IX arrondissement de Paris, França. O edifício é considerado uma das obras-primas da arquitetura de seu tempo.
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Sichuanese opera (Chinese: 川劇 is a type of Chinese opera originating in China's Sichuan province around 1700.Today's Sichuan opera is a relatively recent synthesis of 5 historic melodic styles. Regionally Chengdu remains to be the main home of Sichuanese opera.
Overall the art form is well known for its singing, which is less constrained than that of the more popular Beijing opera form. Sichuan opera is more like a play than other forms of Chinese opera, and the acting is highly polished. The music accompanying Sichuanese opera utilizes a small gong and an instrument called a Muqin, which is similar to the Erhu.
The traditional formula is quite systematic with a combination of stunts like face-changing, tihuiyan, sword-hiding, fire-spitting and beard-changing with the plot and different characters.
Depending on the style, face paint is also limited compared to other related forms. Jing characters do not appear, and the only painted face characters are those with a small white patch in the middle of the face, which indicates a slightly evil character.The face paint colors are traditionally limited to black, red, white and grey.
View of an opera house. A sign visible on the building reads "The Cash Mercantile
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North Carolina Postcards
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Medlin & Austin
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Monroe (N.C.); Union County (N.C.);
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Durwood Barbour Collection of North Carolina Postcards (P077); collection guide available
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