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Sydney Opera House is one of the most inspiring buildings I have seen. There are so many details that reveal themselves as you move around the building, with intersecting sharp and smooth shapes.
The opera house was amazing. It was right beside the botanical gardens and had people walking and running around it and just enjoying life. Sydney was such an amazing city overall.
Tour to 27 Cambridgeshire Schools and 55 Camden Schools. Designs by Central St. Martins Students. Singers Paul Featherstone, Sarah Minns, Grace Nyandoro, Jessica Lawrence Hares, Jack Day, Rob Gildon. Pianists: Magnus Giljam, Will Carslake, Mark Tinkler, Olga Elborn.
Rhymes With Opera: accordionist Ruby Fulton, violinist George Lam, sopranos Elisabeth Halliday and Bonnie Lander, and baritone Robert Maril.
Photo by Jon Wasserman, (c)2009 Matthew Gray/American Opera Projects.
Rhymes With Opera: violinist George Lam, accordionist Ruby Fulton, sopranos Elisabeth Halliday and Bonnie Lander, and baritone Robert Maril in "Rhymes with Opera."
Photo by Jon Wasserman, (c)2009 Matthew Gray/American Opera Projects.
The Opéra de Lille is a neo-classical opera house, built between 1907 and 1913 and officially opened in 1923.
In 1903 fire destroyed the previous Lille opera house, which had been designed by Lille architect Michael Joseph Lequeux and built in 1785. For the replacement city officials chose architect Louis Marie Cordonnier by competition. Cordonnier's Belle Époque design features an elaborate pediment relief by sculptor Hippolyte Lefèbvre, and two flanking bas-relief panels Alphonse-Amédée Cordonnier and Hector Lemaire. The interior includes work by sculptor Edgar-Henri Boutry.
In July 1914, while not quite completed, the Germans occupied the city during World War I and commandeered much of the furniture and equipment of the Opéra to furnish the Theatre Sebastopol. After four years of occupation, the building was restored and opened its doors again in 1923 for a rededication as the Grand Theatre and a "première française".
In 1998 the theatre's physical condition required an emergency closure, in mid-season. Renovations evolved into a more ambitious project to improve the building's functional capabilities for the public and for performing artists. This project was complete in time for Lille's year as European Capital of Culture in 2004.
The opera house was built in 1903 to a design by Frank Matcham, who also designed the London Palladium (1910) and the London Coliseum (1904).
The Opera House ran as a successful theatre until 1927, when it was turned into a cinema. Silent films were shown until 1932 when the theatre was wired for sound and could present ‘talkies’. It also became the venue for an annual summer theatre festival. After the Second World War, it continued to serve primarily as a cinema until 1976. In 1979, it was refurbished and reopened as a venue for live performance.
In 2014, the opera house's former finance chief was jailed for two years for stealing nearly £250,000 from the opera house accounts in 2012 and 2013.
Priscianus: Opera. Edited by Benedictus Brognolus. Venice: [Jacobus de Fivizzano, Lunensis], for Marcus de Comitibus and Gerardus Alexandrinus, 1476. Opening page of text (a2r), with seven-line initial “C” supplied in blue and white on a square gold ground, the bowl of the initial filled with foliate decoration in purple and blue. Sp Coll Hunterian Bw.2.9.
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Glimmerglass Opera House, just north of Cooperstown, New York; built in 1987, the architect was Hugh Hardy of Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates
Despite not being a professional (I wish!) I was asked to help out at a local music event to take photographs of the acts. This is one of my favourites of the 'Opera Babes' who performed on one of the nights. I saw one of the ladies with some flowers and wondered if I'd be able to get a good shot of them moving as she bowed to the crowd. I couldn't believe my luck when this one turned out so well. It looks as though the bouquet is spinning with the central flower fairly still but those on the outside moving rapidly.