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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
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 Marriage of Figaro, K. 492, is an opera buffa in four acts composed in 1786 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with an Italian libretto written by Lorenzo Da Ponte. It premiered at the Burgtheater in Vienna on 1 May 1786. Wikipedia
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Librettist: Lorenzo Da Ponte
Language: Italian
Arias: Non più andrai, Se vuol ballare
Characters: Figaro, Conde de Almaviva, Don Curzio,
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It started raining shortly after I arrived. I was delighted because it resulted in extra reflexions of light.
We are going on a tour of the Opera House today.
The Palais Garnier Opera House was completed in 1875. Using a variety of materials, including white marble, the building is a beautiful composite of Baroque and Beaux-Arts Architecture.
La Boheme - Giacomo Puccini - English National Opera - 29th April 2013..Marcello - Richard Burkhard.Rodolfo - Gwyn Hughes Jones.Colline - Andrew Craig Brown.Schaunard - Duncan Rock.Benoit - Simon Butteriss.Mimi - Kate Valentine.Parpignol - Philip Daggett.Musetta - Angel Blue.Alcindoro - Simon Butteriss.Policeman - Paul Sheehan.Foreman - Andrew Tinkler..Conductor - Oleg Caetani.Original Director - Jonathan Miller.Revival Director - Natascha Metherell.Designer - Isabella Bywater.Lighting - Jean Kalman
A view of the Opera House from Circular Quay. The Opera Bar with the white umbrellas is also visible and probably one of my favourite bars in Sydney providing full views of the Harbour Bridge and North Sydney.
It is really hard to believe I've spent 23 years of my life in Sydney without appreciating its beauty until now. I think it is one of the most beautiful cities in the world but London still remains home for me, at least in the foreseeable future.
HDR, 9 exposures, using Photomatix Pro.
I just love the opera house in Oslo! The sunrise usually mirrors in the large glass surfaces...
Panasonic LX3:
1/160 sec - f/2.8 - 55mm - ISO 80
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.
A great suggestion by David Storey - I have added a custom privacy mode Face Gesture - to turn it on and off.
Opera glasses were made as early as 1730 in the form of a telescope. Binocular opera glasses did not begin to appear until the early 19th century. It was around this time that they began to gain popularity, and by the 1850s they were a fashion accessory that opera and theatre goers had to have. These Mother of Pearl glasses were made around the late 19th century by Colmont in Paris. Colmont was a company that produced military and civilian optical eye-wear during the 19th and 20th centuries.
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.
The Central City Opera House located in the National Historic Landmark District in Central City, Colorado, USA was constructed in 1878 by Welsh and Cornish miners.
In 1877, the citizens of Central City organized a fundraising drive for a grand new opera house befitting the gold mining town's reputation as "the richest square mile on earth." Many of the town's residents were Welsh and Cornish miners, who brought with them a rich tradition of music from their homeland. While locals pitched in during construction, the organizers also retained some of the best building professionals in the area. Denver architect Robert S. Roeschlaub provided an elegant, understated design for the stone structure, and San Francisco artist John C. Massman added elaborate trompe l'oeil murals to the interior. A creek flows through a flume under the Opera House.
The early glory years following the 1878 grand opening were short-lived. Musical and theatrical events appeared on its stage; Buffalo Bill performed here as well as P. T. Barnum’s circus. When the Central City mines were played out, the Opera House fell into disrepair.
In 1929 a dedicated band of Denver preservationists and music lovers formed the Central City Opera House Association and went to work to turn the spotlights back on. A volunteer-driven effort led by Ida Kruse McFarlane, Edna Chappell and Anne Evans led to an extensive restoration of the Opera House in 1932. That summer, actress Lillian Gish opened the newly restored opera house with Camille, launching an annual tradition of summer festivals in Central City that continues to this day.
It appears in the credits of the 1975 cowboy film, Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox as a site used in a scene where actress Goldie Hawn performs a dance routine.
Maintenance of the building again declined after the 1950s. In the 1980s and 1990s, the entire structure from top to below bottom (the foundation and the flume) has been restored, rebuilt, renewed or revamped, including replacement of the 1920-era lighting relic by a computerized lighting system.
In 1999 the wooden chairs were replaced with plush new theater seating. A memorial to the original chairs is on the grounds of the house. Continuing a tradition from 1932, many of the chairs commemorate Colorado pioneers, notable performers, and opera supporters. Illustrious names like Horace Tabor, Buffalo Bill Cody, Beverly Sills, and Lillian Gish are carved on the backs of the seats.
The opera house was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1973. (from Wikipedia)
Kept Under Glass: Unheard Women's Voices was a performance on 5/5/21 at the Whitman-Walker Corner, sponsored by the Goethe-Institut, the Austrian Cultural Forum, IN Series Opera Company, and Spooky Action Theater. Three opera singers sang in different bay windows, with the audience standing outside on the sidewalk. They sang a spectrum of under-represented German and Austrian women's works from across eight centuries, with some of the translated lyrics, singers's faces, and other visuals projected on the building.
The Oslo Opera House
Rolleiflex 2.8E3, TMX, EI 100, Caffenol-C-MRS 14min @ 20C
Regular C-C-M with Reduced Sodium carbonate content, 40g/l vs 54g/l normally.
Inaugurée en 1903, la salle de l’Opéra de Vichy, l’un des plus beaux Opéras d’Europe, pur joyau de style Art nouveau, unique en France, se prête à toutes les manifestations lyriques et chorégraphiques. Elle présente dans une harmonie or et ivoire, une merveilleuse décoration de masques, de lyres, de visages et de fleurs.
Cette décoration est l’œuvre du sculpteur d’ornements Pierre Seguin, du ferronnier Emile Robert et du peintre Léon Rudnicki.
Cette salle pouvant accueillir 1400 personnes est l’œuvre de Charles Lecoeur et Lucien Woog.
Went down to Mrs Macquaries Point for an early morning shoot ... the Opera House is probably the most photographed building in Australia but it's always fun to be there.
15 Secs @ f14, 70 mm
Sydney Opera under construction in 1968 taken from Sydney Harbour. This is the second stage of contruction after the earlier concrete sail collapse. You can see the sun shining through the gaps in the individual sails.
Opera House Ripon - the outside walls of the auditorium block with a new roof, following a fire over 30 years ago, now form a warehouse with no internal features of the theatre remaining.
Ripon Opera House
March 2012