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Phantom of the Opera country. Totally OTT (but they should never have let Chagall near the ceiling).
Chinese Opera is a form of drama and musical theatre and has its roots going back as far as the third century. In Bangkok, Chinese opera is played at San Jao Sien Khong at Talaad Noi and other places during Chinese celebrations.
Oslo Opera House is undoubtedly one of the most striking examples of modern architecture that I have seen. It looks almost like a spaceship from Starwars!
Los Angeles Opera (General Director Placido Domingo) opens officially its 2007-08 season, James Conlon, now beginning his second season as the company's music director, conducts Beethoven's Fidelio.
The production, directed and designed by Pier'Alli, choreographed by Nicola Bowie, features soprano Anja Kampe as Leonore, tenor Klaus Florian Vogt as Florestan, baritone Eike Wilm Schulte as Don Pizzaro, bass Matti Salminen as Rocco and bass-baritone Oleg Bryjak as Don Fernando.
Slim Khezri plays a Prisoner (part of the ensemble)
show dates:
Saturday September 8, 2007 6:00 p.m.
Saturday September 15, 2007 7:30 p.m.
Sunday September 23, 2007 2:00 p.m.
Wednesday September 26, 2007 7:30 p.m.
Saturday September 29, 2007 7:30p.m.
Wednesday October 3, 2007 7:30 p.m.
Saturday October 6, 2007 2:00 p.m
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photo courtesy of www.slimk.cjb.net
An actress dressed as a traditional Beijing Opera Princess and an actor dressed as a Army General strike martial art poses in an outdoor pavilion.
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Here is my obligatory photo of the opera house at Sydney.
It is impressive but it was much smaller looking than I imagined it would be.
We took the ferry around the harbour and I took the photo from the water side.
Grupo de teatro de Funcionarios de la UCSC.
Dirección: Leonardo Iturra.
Jueves 18 de diciembre, 2014.
Centro de Extensión UCSC.
I don't know what possessed me to do this but a couple of years ago I came up with this design for a t-shrit. I had been listening to a lot of Wagner.
At the time I was a bit tired of people trying to foist their questionable cultural values upon me with their innane t-shirt messages so I said to myself "If I have to look at your stupid t-shirts then you will have to look at mine."
So I had one printed up. No one evers asked about it. I think they were afraid.
"Hier ich stehe, ich kann nicht ander." -- Martin Luther
Performance of Offenbach's 'La belle Helene' by the orchestra, choir and ballet of the Kraków Opera. Kraków, Poland
Parte del edificio de la Ópera Estatal de Viena ("Wiener Staatsoper"), en la ciudad homónima.
Hasta 1920 se llamó "Ópera de la Corte de Viena".
Waist-up portrait of an old actor in traditional Chinese face paint wearing a business suit posing in a stairwell.
Enjoy
Smart Light Sydney
Artwork by Eno, Luminous launched with the lighting onto the Sydney Opera House sails.
Auswahl der GIS-Daten nach Region im Browser Opera Mobile und in der Opera-Desktopversion (im Hintergrund).
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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Piper's second opera house in various stages of disrepair... it was used as a basketball court at one time! Victoria and I went to see R. Carlos Nakai play here a few years back... It was a very enjoyable Native American flute performance. His web page is here: www.rcarlosnakai.com/
Louis Moreau Gottschalk played at the original opera house I believe. Here is what he thought about Virginia City in 1865: "The town is ugly, built of wood on rough ground. The streets are steep and irregular. The cafés are numerous. The music store is a shoemaker's shop, two-thirds of which is filled with boots and the rest with drawers and loose sheets of music, which would seem to prove that the population walks more over the rugged soil of the town than on the road florid with art. It is not truly to speak a town, it has rather the appearance of one of those European fairs, which once a year attract for two months merchants and purchasers from the four points of the horizon. The dust blinds when it does not choke you, and vice versâ, and both at once. Shut up in the midst of steep mountains, the sight perceives as far as it can extend only the gray tints of the arid soil, or the sombre masses of the sage, the only vegetable that grows. It is meagre, sad, mean, and monotonous. I have never really known spleen save in Virginia City. It is the most inhospitable and the saddest town that I have ever visited. I have passed eleven days here, during which I have given three concerts. I have not received from the inhabitants one invitation, not one visit, nor any mark of distinction. I fortunately found here a family from New Orleans, whom the vicissitudes of fortune have temporarily banished here, and a young Louisianian, who, by their interest, sometimes contributed to dissipate the ennui of my isolation....
Alf Doten mentions him in his diary entry of June 6th: Evening I attended the
second one of Gottschalk's concerts . . . Miss Lucy Simmons sings with him. He appears to be the greatest pianist in the world. He certainly is the greatest I ever heard." This an excerpt from a book I wrote a few years back. Here is a photo of the cover: www.flickr.com/photos/owlsplace/801024084/in/set-72157600...
Back to the most beautiful opera house I've ever seen! October 2nd, 2012. With Horizon Perfekt and Tungsten
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.
Edificio de la Ópera en "La Ciudad de Las Artes y Las Ciencias" de Valencia. Toma nocturna, a pulso (con la cámara sobre la cabeza), desde bajo del puente de Monteolivete.
[Olympus OMD-EM5 + Panasonic Lumix G 7-14 mm f4 Vario ASPH]
The Sydney Opera House is an expressionist modern design, with a series of large precast concrete 'shells', each taken from a hemisphere of the same radius, forming the roofs of the structure. The Opera House covers 1.8 hectares (4.5 acres) of land. It is 183 metres (605 feet) long and about 120 metres (388 feet) wide at its widest point. It is supported on 580 concrete piers sunk up to 25 metres below sea level. Its power supply is equivalent for a town of 25,000 people. The power is distributed by 645 kilometres of electrical cable.
The roofs of the House are covered with 1.056 million glossy white and matte cream Swedish-made tiles, though from a distance the tiles look only white. Despite their self-cleaning nature, they are still subject to periodic maintenance and replacement.
The Concert Hall and Opera Theatre are each contained in the two largest groups of shells, and the other theatres are located on the sides of the shell groupings. The form of the shells is chosen to reflect the internal height requirements, rising from the low entrance spaces, over the seating areas and up to the high stage towers. A much smaller group of shells set to one side of the Monumental steps and houses the Bennelong Restaurant.
Although the roof structures of the Sydney Opera House are commonly referred to as shells (as they are in this article), they are in fact not shells in a strictly structural sense, but are instead precast concrete panels supported by precast concrete ribs. The building's interior is composed of pink granite quarried in Tarana and wood and brush box plywood supplied from northern New South Wales.
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