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Un'opera d'arte di un architetto danese che non ha mai visto concludere la sua creazione, problemi politici per costruirla, 150 milioni di dollari per crearla, simbolo dell'australia e una leggenda già prima di essere costruita......il tutto riassunto in 5 linee.
The Opéra d'Avignon is an opera house located in Avignon, France that has been in operation for almost two centuries. The initial opera house was constructed in 1824–1825, and opened with its inaugural performance on 30 October 1825. The original opera house was destroyed in a fire on 26 January 1846. The current opera house was built in 1846–1847 and was designed by architects Léon Feuchère and Théodore Charpentier and was given historic buildings status in 1988
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Shot 22.05.2018 in Avignon, France Ref 134-031
The Vienna State Opera (Wiener Staatsoper) is an opera house – and opera company – with a history dating back to the mid-19th century. It is located in the centre of Vienna, Austria. It was originally called the Vienna Court Opera (Wiener Hofoper); in 1920, it was renamed the Vienna State Opera. The members of the Vienna Philharmonic are recruited from its orchestra.
The building was the first major building on the Vienna Ringstraße commissioned by the controversial Viennese "city expansion fund". Work commenced on the building in 1861 and was completed in 1869, following plans drawn up by architects August Sicard von Sicardsburg and Eduard van der Nüll, who lived together in the 6. Bezirk. It was built in the Neo-Renaissance style.
The Ministry of the Interior had commissioned a number of reports into the availability of certain building materials, with the result that stones long not seen in Vienna were used, such as Wöllersdorfer Stein, for plinths and free-standing, simply-divided buttresses, the famously hard stone from Kaisersteinbruch, whose colour was more appropriate than that of Kelheimerstein, for more lushly decorated parts. The somewhat coarser-grained Kelheimerstein (also known as Solnhof Plattenstein) was intended as the main stone to be used in the building of the opera house, but the necessary quantity was not deliverable. Breitenbrunner stone was suggested as a substitute for the Kelheimer stone, and stone from Jois was used as a cheaper alternative to the Kaiserstein. The staircases were constructed from polished Kaiserstein, while most of the rest of the interior was decorated with varieties of marble.
The decision was made to use dimension stone for the exterior of the building. Due to the monumental demand for stone, stone from Sóskút, widely used in Budapest, was also used. Three Viennese masonry companies were employed to supply enough masonry labour: Eduard Hauser (still in existence today), Anton Wasserburger and Moritz Pranter. The foundation stone was laid on May 20, 1863.
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The beautiful Sydney Opera House.
It is almost 3 months since I last posted a photo on flickr. Hope my friends still remember me. I've been very busy with work and travel. I was fortunate to attend a conference in Wollongong, Australia, and had the chance to take a few days off to visit Sydney. What a beatuiful place!
This is an HDR from three exposures taken on a cloudy/rainy day.
Robert Heuer (General Director/CEO of Florida Grand Opera) and Jane Robinson (Board of Directors of FGO) presenting Plaque of Appreciation to Maestro Stewart Robertson
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Blackpool Opera House. The auditorium on three levels seats 2,920 in a wide sweep. The circle alone (seen here) seats 763.
Blackpool, Lancashire, England - Opera House Blackpool, Church Street, Winter Gardens.
November 2012, image reworked 2021
Press-show of opera “Koriolan“ in terms of Vlad Troitsky project "New Music" at “KPI” Art and Culture Centre, Kyiv, Ukraine
2008-07-19 Jerevan, AM: Operaen. Foto av Christian Fredrik Borchsenius.
2008-07-19 Yerevan, Armenia: The opera. Photograph by Christian Fredrik Borchsenius.
In the evening, on July 10, we went to a Sichuan opera show in Chengdu.
Sichuan opera or Chuanju is a type of Chinese opera originating in China's Sichuan province. Today's Sichuan opera is a relatively recent synthesis of 5 historic melodic styles. Regionally Chengdu remains to be the main home of Sichuan 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 traditional formula is quite systematic with a combination of stunts like face-changing, sword-hiding, fire-spitting and beard-changing with the plot and different characters.
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School of Communication takes students on 2015 study abroad trip to Poland: Opera night
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Hair: Pipins - Yolande Hair Mixs
This hair has a texture changer script. Always take a copy of the hair before making any changes.
The hair itself is in two seperate parts. The main hair and the loose parts which flow from the main part. The textures are separated in two options : the "plain hair" part, and the "edge hair" part. This allows you to combine the colours in many different ways. Each hair part has 6 tones.
Skin: Pipins - Solene Skin Medium (Black Eyebrows)
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Guang Gong, Ancient Chinese General in Beijing Opera Costume, Represents Protection and Wealth
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The new opera building in Oslo, as seen from a boat. By 2015 this desolate area will hopefully be a whole new neighbourhood...
Turns out the first Opera cake was invented by Dalloyau and rest of the dessert shops followed. The one showing is not from Dalloyau... sorry
After the opera by Catherine Abel. Oil on linen.
Marigold - living the life of the Belle Epoque - has returned from a sparkling night at the opera and is now seated in the library, having felt compelled to search for the book she clutches.
Is it the story of the opera she has just witnessed? Is it a collection of poetry she'll inscribe for the handsome gentleman who escorted her? Or does the book contain a deeper secret?
Catherine Abel, 2015.
2015 Sulman Prize, Art Gallery NSW, Sydney, Australia (Friday 24 July 2015)
Interesting-looking streetlights outside Opéra Garnier.
I am here not only to window-shop Galeries Lafayette, but also locate the stop for Roissybus, the Paris city bus service (run by municipal mass transit agency, RATP) that runs nonstop to De Gaulle Airport; that is my chosen method for going to the airport next day to fly home, rather than the pickpocket-infested RER commuter trains or the expensive Air France coaches.
The Opéra Garnier is one of the Paris National Opera's two home venues in the city. It was built from 1861 to 1875 on a commission of Napoleon III, along with the Place de l'Opéra on which the building stands, at the intersection of Boulevard des Capucines and Avenue de l'Opéra. Inaugurated as "le Nouvel opéra de Paris" (the New Paris Opera), the venue became known as the "Palais Garnier" within the first decades of its existence, acknowleding the plans and designs of its architect Charles Garnier. The Paris National Opera now uses the Palais Garnier mainly for ballet. The Palais Garnier also houses the Bibliothèque-Musée de l'Opéra de Paris (Paris Opera Library-Museum), although the Library-Museum is no longer managed by the Opera and is part of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France.
Press-show of opera “Koriolan“ in terms of Vlad Troitsky project "New Music" at “KPI” Art and Culture Centre, Kyiv, Ukraine
We made a short notice booking to Copenhagen, Jayne had the first week in September booked off and we wanted to try and do a city break. Five nights hardly seemed enough but the short flight was ok. We flew over home heading east on a beautiful morning. I love flying over an area that I know and being able to see it from above. We had been warned that Copenhagen was expensive-it was! I hadn’t done any research before we set off but on the flight over, I read that taxis were expensive, so it was best to use the Metro from the airport, it isn’t far in to the city and the Metro was fairly easy to use. However! We should have caught the train, I read this whist we were sat on the Metro it has to be said! The nearest Metro stop, which I was frantically trying to work out, using my phone, travelling in and out of tunnels, turned out to be a 1.5 mile walk from our hotel, the rail station was .5. Never mind we were there to walk-subject to my lately diagnosed arthritic ankle, we just didn’t want to be towing suitcases over cobbled pavements at the same time.
We were staying in the Tivoli Hotel which was described as central, it is near Central Station but you wouldn’t describe it as central to the city. Our room wasn’t ready but we could upgrade for a modest amount plus we realised it would be a good idea to include breakfast in the upgrade deal. A good move as it turned out. Our room overlooked the train lines-all twelve of them!! We could already hear train brakes squealing along with the thump thump of steel wheels rolling over points and joints. It’s true to say that Central Station is a 24/7 operation. The overnight noise didn’t bother Jayne but I could hear it all night.
We dumped our stuff and I loaded up with the backpack and camera and we were straight out there. Copenhagen is a relatively small city but there is a lot to see. We were soon finding out that it has an extensive network of canals and bridges and these are a major feature of life in the city. Pan flat, the cyclist rules, There appeared to be twice as many bikes as residents, with countless thousands propped up everywhere you went. Where ever you looked there was silent conveyor of sit up and beg cycles being ridden in all directions. You soon got used to looking over your shoulder before making a move. The vast majority of bikes are left unlocked and almost no one wears a helmet ( I’m a no helmet man, much to the annoyance of the helmet zealots). Copenhagen is reputedly the happiest place in the world and it certainly came across as friendly and relaxed. It is, though, one of the most expensive cities in the world and two burgers and two small glasses of wine at Nyhavn cost us £50. Comically, there were four people, local to us, shouting out Jayne’s name, they had seen us going past and we had a laugh about the prices, They were sat drinking beer at £8.50 a pint. Despite the expense, the place was packed with people parting with their money. Wages are very high locally, as are the taxes. The high wages and high costs must feed each other in an upward spiral I would have thought.
Unfortunately the cost of entering buildings to go up towers etc. for a higher view of the city was also very expensive (to us). The tower at Christiansborg Palace is free but restricted by the lift system and you don’t get to the top, it does also open later than the others so you have a chance of seeing sunset over the city. Unfortunately the lifts were out of order on one of our best weather days. We did get to go up the day after but it was dull and I wasn’t overly impressed. The spiral tower across in Christiana, The Church of Our Saviour, was far more impressive. We climbed the tower here just after it opened on a stunning morning and the views are fantastic. There will be incredible bottlenecks when it’s busy though on the corkscrew stairs that get progressively narrower towards the top. Some people hog it to take endless selfies at the top and it is extremely tight up there, you can’t move up until they come down.
As usual, we tried to get to some out of the way places, with only five days and mixed weather though we had enough mainstream destinations to see. We had a day of heavy rain so we went back to the rail station which was a good indoor (and free!) destination, and made umbrellas and the rain the focal point of that days photos. The entire Danish navy seemed to be at anchor, we just missed an open day on one ship. Some I could photograph, others were guarded and had restrictions, I got the evil eye from a couple of guards as the spotted the big Canon in my hand. I can’t imagine that they could police the Japanese and stop them from getting their photos and selfies though. I always act very openly with the camera and if people look at me suspiciously I smile and give them the thumbs up. In a rail station I usually ask the police. In Central Station the police were in their station and I never saw one move out, it is covered by extensive CCTV but there were some very unpleasant people, drinking and watching for people being careless with their belongings. We were lucky to be in the station on Sunday as a tourist steam train arrived, it sat at the platform belching smoke and steam for fifteen minutes, it was also coming back in an hour so we had an expensive coffee and waited to see it again. There was big military event outside the Christiansborg Palace on Monday, with a parade through the city that came past just as we were in a good spot to view it. The area was full of soldiers wearing their medals. We haven’t discovered the reason, although someone suggested a passing out parade for new recruits. Maybe the ships were in port for this as well.
Tivoli Gardens is another big draw and we went in, again it was fairly expensive, it had been a stunning day and the biggest problem was contrast, with deep shadows and a bright blue sky. We stayed until dark, it opens late and is very colourful. We went on the world’s highest carousel and got flung around 260 odd feet in the air. Luckily, we also found a bar that served wine at ‘only’ £5.60 a glass so we sat and watched people have fun screaming and shrieking above us.
There are many buildings with copper domes, entire copper roofs, even modern buildings are often clad in either brass or copper to blend in with the ancient buildings around them. Like every city we have visited, tower cranes are in abundance. There is a lot of development going on and unfortunately a lot of it is around buildings that you would want to photograph. We walked 12 to 14 mile every day and took in most of the sights. We didn’t really do any interiors, only towers and the railway station. At the time of writing I haven’t looked at what I’ve got, I have around 3000 shots, some on the G1X which I used when it was raining heavily as it easy to put in a pocket. I have a lot less time for editing these days so it will be a long process I think. To save time I am going to create a list of generic tags that I can copy and paste to each upload – the time saving is enormous – so apologies to anyone who gets a photo of a canal when they wanted a steam train or vice versa.
Wexford Opera House opened to the public in September 2008 and the first opera of the festival of that year was performed a month later. It opened on the site of the Theatre Royal which had existed on this site since 1832 and had been the home of the Wexford Festival Opera since its inception in 1951.
The ethos of the festival has been to stage relatively unknown or forgotten operas. The festival initially focused on Italian opera, particularly the works of Bellini, Donizetti, Rossini, and the young Verdi, but has since widened its scope to other lesser-known works. Three operas are staged each year, providing a platform for young international singers to make their mark; Mirella Freni, Janet Baker, Geraint Evans, and Sergei Leiferkus are among those to have performed at this festival. The festival also features recitals, performances, and fringe events.
The Palais Garnier (English: Garnier Palace) is a 1,979-seat opera house, which was built from 1861 to 1875 for the Paris Opera. It was originally called the Salle des Capucines because of its location on the Boulevard des Capucines in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, but soon became known as the Palais Garnier in recognition of its opulence and its architect, Charles Garnier. The theatre was also often referred to as the Opéra Garnier, the Opéra de Paris or simply the Opéra. 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 1910 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." This opinion is far from unanimous however: the 20th-century French architect Le Corbusier once described it as "a lying art" and contended that the "Garnier movement is a décor of the grave".
The Palais Garnier also houses the Bibliothèque-Musée de l'Opéra de Paris (Paris Opera Library-Museum). Although the Library-Museum is no longer managed by the Opera and is part of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the museum is included in unaccompanied tours of the Palais Garnier.
The Opera House in Budapest, Hungary is usually compared to those from Paris and Vienna. In the year 1884, Miklos Ybl finished the building that is now the centerpiece of Budapest, using a Neo-Renaissance idea. The money used to build this wonderful building was funded by Emperor Franz Josef throughout most of the construction. It was then and stills today the center for all music life throughout Hungary. Throughout the last one hundred years, the Opera House has housed Hungary’s best luminary artists from all of Europe.
The inside of the Opera House is filled with masterly frescoes to give it the architectural effect that it holds. Painters such as Mor Than, Bertalan Szekely, and Karoly Lotz are just a few of the artists featured. Some say that the wonder begins before the performances even start. The whole interior is made of gilt and marble, which makes the view so breathtaking. Large stair cases and enormous chandeliers are scattered throughout the building to add to the larger scale appeal.
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Szalontay, Rozsa. Budapest. Budapest, Hungary: Szalontai Publishing House, 2006.