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Hans Zimmer brought his spectacular live show to Britain's biggest indoor arena - the Manchester Arena (aka AO) above Man Vic station on Friday 16th June 2023. With the Orchestra of the Odessa Opera in residence and host of talented multi-instrumentalists, there wre up to 45 people on stage at any one time. Zimmer seemed to be enjoying himself and engaged widely with the audience during a two-part three hour set that covered music from 31 film scores. The ariel ballet sequence accompanying Interstellar was magical. Manc lad Johnny Marr of the The The and The Smiths joined his son Nile Marr on guitar for the last couple of numbers; Niall being a permanent member of Zimmer's entourage.
While we were climbing, there were people singing Peking opera! It was beautiful, and we followed the voices to a lovely couple. We talked with them, and they were very nice. You can see the husband in the moon gate. ... er, his legs, at least. :p
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 Sydney Opera House is one of the most recognizable modern architecture in the world. It was completed in 1973 and has become an icon for the city of Sydney, as well as Australia.
Peking opera or Beijing opera (simplified Chinese: 京剧; traditional Chinese: 京劇; pinyin: Jīngjù) is a form of traditional Chinese theatre which combines music, vocal performance, mime, dance, and acrobatics. It arose in the late 18th century and became fully developed and recognized by the mid-19th century.[1] The form was extremely popular in the Qing dynasty court and has come to be regarded as one of the cultural treasures of China.[2] Major performance troupes are based in Beijing and Tianjin in the north, and Shanghai in the south.[3] The art form is also preserved in Taiwan (Republic of China), where it is known as Guójù (traditional Chinese: 國劇; simplified Chinese: 国剧; literally: "National theatre"). It has also spread to other countries such as the United States and Japan.
京劇又稱京戲，在台灣又稱平劇、國劇，是中國戲曲曲種之一。分布地以北京為中心，遍布全國。京劇是十九世紀中期，融合了徽劇和漢劇，並吸收了秦腔、崑曲、梆子、弋陽腔等藝術的優點，在北京形成的。京劇形成後在清朝宮廷內得到了空前的繁榮。京劇的腔調以西皮和二黃為主，主要用胡琴和鑼鼓等伴奏，被視為中國國粹。
京劇於2010年，獲選進入人類非物質文化遺產代表作名錄。
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 Sydney Opera House is a multi-venue performing arts centre in the Australian city of Sydney. It was conceived and largely built by Danish architect Jørn Utzon, finally opening in 1973 after a long gestation starting with his competition-winning design in 1957. Utzon received the Pritzker Prize, architecture's highest honour, in 2003. (Wiki)
From the ANA Hotel. When I checked in at this hotel I was allocated a room near the ground floor where the Opera House was obscured by the red-brick building shown here. As I had been sold the room as “Opera House view” I complained and was moved higher up, from where I took this shot. I was reminded of the sequence from “Fawlty Towers” where the deaf woman complains about the view and an exasperated Basil shouts: “That is Torquay, Madam – what do you expect to see from a Torquay hotel bedroom – Sydney Opera House, perhaps?”.
Three stitches of a close up of the Sydney Opera House on a cool winter's morning.
I used a 70-200mm 2.8 Nikkor that I rented. It's a great lens and this size doesn't do it justice but there's so much detail in the tiles on the roof that I'd never noticed before!
I went to the opera and it was a good occasion to wear a bit too much.
Dres: vintage
Tee: Gina Tricot
Hat: Bik bok
Bag: Topshop sale
Earrings: vintage from Frøken Dianas Salonger, Oslo
Tights: Atmosphere, allegro.pl
Boots: Sh
Performance of Offenbach's 'La belle Helene' by the orchestra, choir and ballet of the Kraków Opera. Kraków, Poland
McPherson Opera House at 221 S. Main in McPherson Kansas. It was built in 1888 at the cost of $42,000. This one is without the ugly construction sign in front.
NRIS #72001452. Added in 1972.
What better after a hard day's tourism than a night at the Varna Opera? We were forced to buy student tickets. It was Rigoletto, more or less. It was "la donna e mobile" as sung by Latka from 'Taxi'. We loved it.