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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 covers 1,8 hectares of land. It is 183 metres long and about 120 metres wide at its widest point. The roofs of the House are constructed of 1.056.000 glazed white granite tiles, imported from Sweden.
The start to the Vivid Sydney Festival with a spectacular 3D light display on some of the cities more notable buildings in and around The Rocks .
Opera House . Vivid Festival . Sydney .
The Opera House Garnier, location of the famed phantom of the opera. We only drove by, but it is an impressive building.
Opera is a famous Theater Art of Italy. It was started in 1600s. At the beginning there were elements such as singing and dancing. But, French was the first country who added the element of dancing to opera. As per Italian language, opera indicates works and in Latin it stands for the plural of labor. This means that there can be duet, trio, and group singing. It also uses several aspects of the spoken theater, like costume and backdrop.
A singer and Chinese instrumentalists perform traditional Chinese opera in a pavilion off a public square in Hangzhou. People in the square also take part in other activities such as aerobics (with its own competing music) and martial arts.
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.
Sydney Opera House at night. Opera Bar in the foregound.
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The Sydney Opera House Origamic Architecture
This is a spectacular magical art for you to put together and is made with paper entirely. The building design is base on the Sydney Opera House. It is foldable.
Dimensions of the finished model: 11.61 inches or 29.5 cm in length / 10.23 inches or 26 cm in width / 4.72 inches or 12 cm in height.
Entrance to the teahouse.
Sichuan Opera - actually an amalgam of five styles - is famous as one of the major styles of Chinese traditional performance. It has ancient beginnings, dating from the Three Kingdoms period (220-280)
The ShuFeng YaYun Teahouse was the place where opera stars traditionally gathered, now it's just a venue for performance. However it is still run as a teahouse - you sit in small groups round a table where tea is served, and replenished by an attendant from a teapot with a metre long spout, ideal for reachingto the back of the table. Also a plate of crystal dumplings to nibble on during the performance. Apparently if you get a VIP seat, ear cleaning is also included! Presumably all the better to hear the singing.
The varied origin was pretty evident in the performance. Lots and lots of variety. Music, puppetry, dance, song, acting, acrobatics, shadow play,comedy, fire breathing and face changing, the most famous and spectacular of all. Somehow, in a split second, one mask is changed with another, and back again just as quickly. How it's done is a closely guarded secret!