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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)
The community came together for a BIG party celebrating the museum’s 100th Birthday Year! We shut down 24th Street in front of the museum, until a little rain brought the party inside. These are photos from the Confetti Photobooth!
We enjoyed live performances by Mu Performing Arts, Dérobé Dance Band, The Bazillions, Brass Messengers, The Golden Bubbles, Duniya Drum and Dance, Children's Theatre Company, Minnesota Orchestra, and Minnesota Opera.
We made a collaborative balloon sculpture, party hats, and birthday-wish strings, plus we painted art cars then made soccer scarves with Minnesota United FC. Mall of America stopped by with their pop-up prize truck, too!
We snacked on goodies from The Sioux Chef’s new Tatanka Truck, Mik Mart Ice Cream, and TOT BOSS.
The Birthday Block Party was presented by Target.
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!
McPherson Opera House at 221 S. Main in McPherson Kansas. It was built in 1888 at the cost of $42,000.
National Register #72001452. Added in 1972.
Performance of Offenbach's 'La belle Helene' by the orchestra, choir and ballet of the Kraków Opera. Kraków, Poland
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
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.
Cast and crew of Opera Holland Park. Their production of L'amico Fritz by Mascagni opens on 10.06.11.
Built at the end of the 1870s, this Neo-Renaissance building decorated with Baroque motifs that is the Opera House boasted the most modern theatre technology of its time.
Opera house. 1901-03, restored 1979. Designed by Frank Matcham, restored by Derek Sugden of Ove Arup Partners. Coursed rock-faced gritstone with ashlar dressings and Welsh slate roofs. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys plus attic. East symmetrical entrance front has 5 windows with curved ends. Banded pilasters to ground floor with entablature, plain pilasters to upper floors. Central recessed entrance flanked by single fluted and banded Doric columns in-antis, with pair of glazed double doors and canted glazed side panels plus 4 overlights with circular glazing. Above a concave plaster with scrolls. Either side a round headed doorway with fanlight, that to right now blocked. Beyond single canted doorways with double panel doors. Central 3 bays covered by ornate iron and glass canopy supported on 2 columns each topped by an octagonal lantern. Above large central Diocletian window in moulded surround with keystone and curved balustrade, flanked by plain sashes in moulded surrounds with keystones. Topped by ramped parapet inscribed OPERA HOUSE with coat-of-arms above, flanked by balustrades with urn finials. Beyond curved sides have 2 plain sashes in moulded surrounds. Above, on either side 2 circular domed towers with paired squat Doric columns and 4 glazing bar windows, topped with entablature, ramped parapet and pedimented finials. Ribbed lead dome to each tower surmounted by ball finial. North front to Water Street has irregular stepped frontage in 3 blocks each stepped forward to right... INTERIOR: Baroque Revival style decoration by Dejong of London described by Pevsner as "sumptuous". Good foyer, stairs, and auditorium with elaborate plaster decoration to proscenium arch, boxes, balcony fronts and ceiling with painted panels. Classical and Art Nouveau influences to stained glass. Reputed to have original stage equipment. The original gasolier and distributor for the gas lighting and ventilation system is still evident. HISTORY: the Opera House was opened on 1 June 1903, it cost »25,000. It became a cinema in the 1950's, was restored and re-opened as a theatre on 30 July 1979, with a performance of Donizwtti's "Lucia di Lammermoor". EH Listing
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.
Neon sign on the Washington Opera House, 116 West 2nd Street, Maysville, Kentucky. The opera house was built in 1898. A number of famous artists and actors performed here including Marguerite Clark, Tom Mix, John L. Sullivan, and John Philip Sousa and his band. The Washington Opera continues as a theater and is currently home to the Maysville Players.