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Three fun facts:
1) It ran significantly over-budget to construct,
2) The architect didn't live to see it completed, and;
3) It is forbidden to take photographs inside of it.
Construction of the Oslo Opera House, designed by architects Snøhetta, started in 2003 and the building was completed in 2007, ahead of schedule and US$50 million under its budget!
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Sichuan Opera's face-changing, or "Bian Lian," is a captivating performance art where actors swiftly switch between vividly coloured masks to depict changing emotions and characters. This technique, unique to Sichuan Opera, involves performers changing masks in a fraction of a second, leaving audiences in awe.
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Opera Ophidia - Sculpture by Ossi Somma, Reijo Paavilainen and Pertti Mäkinen.
Year 2000
# 88 Twisted
118 Pictures in 118
Sydney Opera House during Vivid festival. Managed to get this great lighting effect because of the rain on the night. via 500px ift.tt/1nrpVfk
The Opera House is part of a structure that includes a hotel, cafe and other rooms that was originally constructed with adobe bricks in 1923 by the Borax Mining Company. When mining ceased in 1928, the buildings fell into disrepair until Marta Becket fell in love with the place. She was a ballet dancer, opera singer and painter. She acquired the property in 1967. Marta had a dream and by force of will she made it happen. She renovated and operated the hotel and restaurant in addition to performing ballets she choreographed and operas she wrote. She covered the walls of the Opera House, hotel and restaurant with murals and paintings. Her last performance was in 2012 when she was 88. Marta died in 2017 but her legacy lives on as a result of a non-profit organization she founded that continues to operate the hotel and performance space in addition to raising money to repair and renovate the structures. The adobe bricks with which the buildings were built suck up water when it rains. Although average rainfall in the area is less than 2 inches a year, the recent atmospheric rivers California has experienced have been quite destructive.
Armenian National Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet Opera is an opera theatre in Yerevan, which was officially opened on 20 January 1933, with Alexander Spendiaryan's Almast opera performance. The opera building was designed by the Armenian architect Alexander Tamanian. It consists of two concert halls: the Aram Khatchaturian concert hall with 1,400 seats and the Alexander Spendiaryan Opera and Ballet National Theatre with 1,200 seats.Since it was opened, the Armenian National Opera & Ballet Theatre has performed more than 200 different operas and ballets by Armenian, Russian and Western European composers. . In 1956, the theatre received the status of National Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre.
The theatre has also hosted concerts performed by Charles Aznavour, Ian Anderson, John McLaughlin, Akvarium and many others. (Wikipedia)
Photo details: Exposure 1.6 sec at f/4.5 (ISO 200), Camera E-M10 with a OLYMPUS M.12mm F2.0 lens at 12mm.
(Photo by: Jerold Paterson, copyright ©2022 Image license Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 (CC BY-NC-4.0))
Part of a sculptural installation depicting dancers' bodies on the glass facade of the Oslo Opera House in Oslo, Norway.
Salle de spectacle / The Auditorium. Charles Garnier built the auditorium in the tradition of an Italian theatre. Shaped like a horseshoe, the stalls are overlooked by several tiers of boxes and balconies allowing as much to see as be seen. The ceiling by Marc Chagall was inaugurated in 1964 and affixed over the former one by Jules Eugène Lenepveu. Chagall completed the pantheon of opera composers whilst paying tribute to Garnier, with whom he shared a taste for shimmering colours
Looking southwest over the Oslofjord from the steps of the Opera House as the winter sun sets behind Hovedøya island. The ship is the ferry to Denmark, and the object to the left of the image is a permanent public sculpture called "She Lies" (Norwegian: hun ligger) by the artist Monica Bonvicini, made of stainless steel and glass panels. It floats on the water on its concrete platform and turns on its axis in response to the tide and wind.