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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)
An opera on an old deep sea tug: one of the events taking place during the World Port Days in Rotterdam. I thoroughly enjoyed the opera, which is based on a true story, and thought it was a unique show!
For more information on the opera, please visit www.intorno.nl
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.
Sydney Opera House, Bennelong Point, New South Wales, April 2016. First planned in the late 1940's, a n architectural competition was won by Jorn Utzon in 1957 (although the geometry of the roof 'sails' wasn't actually worked out). Building work soon followed and after a long and very controversial construction period, which involved a lot of political shenanigans and a redesign by Peter Hall, it was opened in 1973. Now a World Heritage Site.
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
Performance of Offenbach's 'La belle Helene' by the orchestra, choir and ballet of the Kraków Opera. Kraków, Poland
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This is a completed commission for midwinterwriter, who asked me to re-create the 'Mirror' nightgown ensemble worn by Emmy Rossum in the 2004 'Phantom of the Opera' movie.
This skirt is made from very lightly teastianed lace with a muslin underlayer to prevent it from becoming entirely transparent.
The rest of the outfit includes a lace camisole, satin corset, and muslin robe.
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.
Phantom of the Opera Singapore 2007
I was there TWICE and both experience was great. I'm their super fans!
Leipzig Opera House
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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 Guild’s Talking Opera series concluded last night at the beautiful Fenimore Art Museum with Abby Kreh Gibson and Guild President Tom Simpson (right) discussing Verdi’s Aida, which kicks off the 2012 Festival. It was particularly relevant that this talk occurred at Fenimore because the museum is presenting an exhibit of costumes related to the season, which includes costumes from Aida and Armide productions at the Metropolitan Opera. Abby and Tom went through the opera, relaying information about Verdi himself and the opera and how it focuses on themes of patriotism and the father-daughter relationship. After the talk, snacks were provided and the complementary Fenimore exhibits were open to those who attended.
William M. Brown
The Major Domo (spoken role): Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė
Richard Strauss Ariadne auf Naxos
Opera in one act with prologue
Musical Director: Valery Gergiev
Director: Michael Sturminger
Costumes and Set Designers: Renate Martin & Andreas Donhauser
Mariinsky Concert Hall, St Petersburg, Russia
8 March 2011
© Mariinsky Theatre | Natasha Razina
Lemaire Mother of Pearl opera glasses, circa 1900; silver thimble, early 1900's; silver tray, early 1900's; Marvella faux pearls, circa 1950; Ronson Adonis lighter, circa 1950.
The opera glasses, thimble and tray belonged to my wife's Grandma McKenzie. The pearls and lighter belonged to her mother.
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