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Oslo Opera, Norway.
Sorry for excessively over posting from this spot:p
Part of the art and sciences complex designed by Santiago Calatrava, the Palau de les Arts stands as the world’s tallest opera house at 75 meters in a stunning 55,000 square-meter white silhouette encompassing four halls: the Sala Principal (Main Hall), Aula Magistral (Master Room), Auditorium and Martín y Soler Theatre. The Sala Principal seats 1,500 visitors mainly for opera and other performing arts, boasting four levels of seating and the world’s third largest orchestra pit. Spiralling staircases and panoramic lifts can be found towards the sides of the venue, offering various access paths to walkways and Mediterranean gardens.
Got the D700 finally and went out to take a few snaps...
Wish you a nice friday and a great weekend!
Explore Front Page 5/12/2008 - thanks so much!
A great opera in the middle of Paris France with a some great stairs. Tripods where not allowed so I had to be creative and used the edge of the balcony. I made multiple shots so I can remove all the people in photoshop afterwards
A man takes a photo of a "body" (part of a sculptural installation) protruding from the exterior of the Oslo Opera House in Oslo, Norway.
The Copenhagen Opera House (in Danish usually called Operaen, literally The opera) is the national opera house of Denmark, and among the most modern opera houses in the world. It is also one of the most expensive opera houses ever built with construction costs well over US$500 million. It is located on the island of Holmen in central Copenhagen. (Wikipedia)
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The pigeons remain loyal to the FF crew. I asked them to give up the location of the hunt items in Opera and they refused like good birbs should.
Shroomin AV made with FF2023 items detailed here flic.kr/p/2owk1mw
Das Sydney Opera House ist eines der markanten und berühmten Gebäude des 20. Jahrhunderts und das Wahrzeichen von Sydney. Es geht auf den Entwurf des dänischen Architekten und Pritzker-Architektur-Preisträgers Jørn Utzon (1918–2008) zurück.
Das Sydney Opera House ist am 12. Juli 2005 in die Australian National Heritage List und am 28. Juni 2007 in die Liste des UNESCO-Welterbes eingetragen worden. Dänemark sieht das Opernhaus heute als Bestandteil seines kulturellen Erbes an und hat es in Dänemarks Kulturkanon 2006 aufgenommen.
The Sydney Opera House is a multi-venue performing arts centre in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is one of the 20th century's most famous and distinctive buildings.
Designed by Danish architect Jørn Utzon, the building was formally opened on 20 October 1973 after a gestation beginning with Utzon's 1957 selection as winner of an international design competition.
On 28 June 2007, the Sydney Opera House became a UNESCO World Heritage Site
...was planning to get up this morning & meet my good friend Mario Bekes down at "The Rocks" for some sunrise shots. My alarm didn't go off and I woke at 5:45am....well after having planned to meet Mario. Several txt messages later, I was back asleep whilst Mario finished aff his shots in the rain.
Hope you got a few decent photos in Mario & if you didn't here is one from my WIP folder.
Opera Blue is for you Mario - Sorry : )
Note: when I originally took this photo, I used some selective desaturation (House Lights). Which do you prefer?
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Built in the sixties and using spherical geometry, the Sydney Opera House, “changed the image of an entire country” [quote by Frank Gehry]
I took this while attending Pella, IA Tulip Festival. It was settled by Dutch immigrants and this heritage is well represented throughout the town. According to Wikipedia there is even a Pella Dutch dialect.
The Pella Opera House was Pella’s first 4-story structure, located in the heart of downtown Pella. The current building is actually the second Opera House in town. According to an article written by Ray Koenigs in the 1986 Pella History Book, an earlier Opera House had been built in 1860. That building was destroyed in a fire in 1883, and three years passed before there was talk of building a replacement.
The building was designed by architect Stanley De Gooyer and was built and largely financed by Herman Rietveld, owner of the Pella Drain and Tile Company. The Pella Advertiser of November 8, 1900 says that, “Mr. Rietveld has done more for the building interests of Pella than any other man in our city.” A business man with many interests, he was involved in banking, newspaper publishing, various manufacturing businesses and farming.
On July 21, 1900, ground was broken and construction began.
Today, in the triangle at the top of the Opera House, one can read the words “Opera House Block.” Block in this case is a reference to a business area building rather than a city block. The building was 65 feet high, 120 feet long and 40 feet wide. A few days before its opening, the Pella Advertiser stated that “the ground floor will be devoted to offices, an implement room, a heating plant for the entire building as well as the box office and grand staircase leading to the second floor theater. The stage is 28 feet in depth with an opening 18′x20′ and fitted with the latest scenery from the finest studios in the US. There was also a balcony and above that on the 4th floor will be a large room with a Brussels carpet, fit for receptions and banquets. Hundreds of incandescent lights will illuminate the interior.”
The opening play on Saturday, November 16, 1900, at 12:30pm was “What Happened to Jones?” The critic who reviewed the performance praised the orchestra, but complained that the play itself was devoid of any real plot to give it an interest and consisted in the sandwiching of jokes both new and old between the flimsy makeshift of a plot.[Opera House website]
Darth Vader in Paris,
Years ago I got up at 5 am to shoot the Opera Garnier in Paris with no one there. Lately, I got the idea what if Darth Vader landed there to do a little inspection for a John William concert at the opera:-)
He would not want to be noticed and come there early.
I saw the last star war Movie The Last Jedi. I love the new characters, but I was disappointed by Luke Skywalker lack of spirit, he was the one character in the Saga that was a true Jedi and I felt it didn't make sense for him to be so down. What did you think?
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