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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
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.
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.
Sterling Opera House
Derby, CT
On April 2, 1889 the doors of the Sterling Opera House were opened to the public. It was designed by Italianate Victorian style architect H. Edwards Ficken, who also was co-designer of the famous Carnegie Hall located in Manhattan, NY. It was built to serve both political and entertainment needs.
The lower two levels and the basement were actually the town's City Hall and police station from when it opened up until 1965.
The auditorium was used for hundreds of shows and live musical performances in its day. In fact, many world famous performers such as Harry Houdini and Red Skelton took the stage at Sterling. Shows were held up until 1945 when the curtain closed for the last time.
The Sterling Opera House was also later recognized as a historic place with historic value when it became the first building in CT to be added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 8, 1968.
A Ópera de Arame, com estrutura tubular e teto transparente, é um dos símbolos emblemáticos de Curitiba. Inaugurada em 1992, acolhe todo tipo de espetáculo, do popular ao clássico, e tem capacidade para 1.572 espectadores.
Part of a sculptural installation depicting dancers' bodies on the glass facade of the Oslo Opera House in Oslo, Norway.
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.
COPENHAGA (Dinamarca): Casa da Ópera.
Casa de Ópera de Copenhaga (português europeu) (em dinamarquês:Operaen) é a sede da ópera nacional da Dinamarca e uma das casas destinadas a música mais modernas do planeta. A Operaen é considerada a casa de ópera mais cara já construída. Foi erguida na ilha de Holmen com um custo total de mais de 500 milhões de dólares.
A Operaen, propositalmente, fica exatamente na direção do Palácio de Amalienborg e da Igreja de Mármore. A porção da ilha de Holmen, onde a ópera foi construída chama-se Dokøen (Ilha das Docas, em português), um antiga e tradicional porto da cidade de Copenhaga. A Operaen pode ser acessada através dos serviços de autocarros e metro, além de algumas balsas que partem do Porto da cidade.
info: pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casa_de_%C3%93pera_de_Copenhague
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
The Copenhagen Opera House is a donation from the A.P. Møller and Chastine McKinney Møller Foundation to the Danish people. It totals 41,000 square metres. Five of the fourteen storeys are subterranean. The main stage of the opera seats an audience of 1400.
The Opera House is clad with southern German Jura Gelb limestone, and the foyer features Sicilian Perlatino marble. The wall of the auditorium facing the foyer is clad with maple wood, and the ceiling in the main auditorium is adorned with 105,000 sheets of 24 carat gold leaf, equivalent to 1.5 kilos of gold.
The Copenhagen Opera House is designed by Danish architect Henning Larsen, and a number of Danish artists have contributed to the decor, among them Per Kirkeby who has created four bronze reliefs, and Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson who has contributed the three light sculptures for the foyer.
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))
The Peking Opera
This opera is like nothing else in the world. This was my second visit to an authentic performance, but the first one in this grand palace of opera. I understand that it had been closed for a long time. I felt honored to be invited to attend the opening night performance of the Peking Opera.
The opera is mesmerizing and confusing event. I had a wonderful assistant with me, and she was able to translate the essence of the story to me. The plot was a classical tragedy told in dance and other-worldly sounding voices. Also I was very fortunate to have carte-blanche and was allowed to take photos anywhere. I used this as much as possible, trying not to make myself an annoyance.
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