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Actress Dou Xiaoxuan performs Peking Opera "The Goddess of Heaven Scatters Flowers" during a preview for media at Lincoln Center in New York City, the United States, Aug. 20, 2014. "120th Anniversary of the Mei Lanfang "project was kicked off here on Wednesday under the leadership of Mei Baojiu, son of famous Peking Opera master Mei Lanfang to commemorate the 120th anniversary of Mei Lanfang and to promote the art of Peking Opera.
Close up side view of an old actor as he carefully applies traditional Chinese face paint under his eye.
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The Opera House Promenade.
this is the little Lumix LX5 and not a bad job it did either, when there was some light around. The camera is braced on the side of a lamp post.
The Opera House during Vivid Sydney 2010. Nikon D50, exposure times varied between 1 sec up to around 3 sec at approx f/8-12. I took multiple photographs of the Opera house's many looks during Vivid Sydney 2010.
Chris Mirto, assistant professor of opera theater, and guest artists work with conservatory students on a newly commissioned opera, as it is being written. The performance will be staged during Winter Term 2023, followed by an off-campus presentation.
Photo by Jonathan Clark '25
Chinese opera singer in Chengdu China. Photo was taken on 07/27/08 by Christopher M. Dawson with a Panasonic Lumix DMC-LZ7.
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!
Un particolare dell'Opera di Lione poco prima che venisse un nubifragio estivo...avrei voluto avere il mio cavalletto per una lunga esposizione!!!
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.
The Opera House building (Magyar Operaház) on Andrássy Avenue (this avenue was recognised as a World Heritage Site in 2002) in Budapest, Hungary.
Edifício da Opera (Magyar Operaház) na Avenida Andrássy (esta avenida foi incluída como Patrimônio Mundial da UNESCO em 2002) em Budapeste, Hungria.
The Telok Blangah Senior Citizens Centre, the Cantonese Opera interest group performed at the Telok Blangah Community Club hall.
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.
Tiled entrance to the Illinois Theatre, 204 North Mauvaisterre Street, Jacksonville, Illinois. Originally the Grand Opera House of 1892 stood on this site. It began screening movies in the 1920’s and was renamed Illinois Theatre in 1927. Operated by Fox Theatres Corporation it was closed in early-1938 and was demolished. A new Illinois Theatre designed by the Boller Brothers was built and opened in March 1939. It was also managed by the Fox Theatres Corporation. In the 1970’s it was taken over by Kerasotes Theatre and was twinned. By 2008 it was being operated by an independent operator, screening first-run features. A third screen was created in the former balcony, and the cinema is equipped with digital projection. In 2015 it was converted into a 5-screen theatre. In December 2018 it was taken over by Eisentraut Theatres.
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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