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Salle de spectacle / The Auditorium. Charles Garnier built the auditorium in the tradition of an Italian theatre. Shaped like a horseshoe, the stalls are overlooked by several tiers of boxes and balconies allowing as much to see as be seen
This Week in Bristol, Indiana 1-20-18. The Bristol Opera House, which has been home to the Elkhart Civic Theatre group since the 1960’s is looking to make some long planned renovations to significantly improve the theatre-going experience. For years, actors as well as audience members, have traveled to Bristol from around Northern Indiana and Southwest Michigan to the theater originally built back in 1897. Currently, lobby space is limited, so they would like to put in new a concession stand and box office space and renovate the men's restroom to make it ADA compliant. The projected cost for the project is $110,000. The Elkhart County Foundation has given them a matching grant. The theatre group has currently raised about half of the money it needs to qualify for the matching grant.
Performance of Offenbach's 'La belle Helene' by the orchestra, choir and ballet of the Kraków Opera. Kraków, Poland
Rear entrance away from muddy wheels, and fully enclosed passenger area
Northwest Carriage Museum in Raymond, Washington. Started by the Dennis family, who operate a chain of hardware stores on the Olympic peninsula.
Yerevan (Armenia, 2013)
The ground-breaking of the Opera-Theatre took place on 28 November 1930 during the celebrations of the 10th anniversary of Soviet Armenia. The building was designed by the Armenian architect Alexander Tamanian in a neoclasical style, influenced by Soviet brutalist architecture. It was officially opened in 1933.
Performance of Offenbach's 'La belle Helene' by the orchestra, choir and ballet of the Kraków Opera. Kraków, Poland
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 Opera in early morning fog.
More info about Oslo Opera House is found on the main page of my Opera House set.
© Aslak Tronrud 2012
Today I went to "Il Trovatore" at Houston Grand Opera. This is the impressive view looking up from the entryway escalator at the Wortham Center, downtown Houston.
Phantom of the Opera country. Totally OTT (but they should never have let Chagall near the ceiling).
Only spent an hour in Sydney at the airport but I had the right seat on the airplane to snap a photo of the Opera House on my way in.
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.