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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.
Buxton Opera House, The Square, Buxton, Derbyshire, England
I love the lettering and detail around the entrance.
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The Vienna Opera. (It was sooo windy on top of Albertina last night that my camera was almost blown away!)
Looks really better in bigger size because of details.
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Tommy is my son, this photo is in your stream:
S. PAOLO - DALLA 1° LETTERA AI CORINZI: (Stralcio)
Fratelli, nessuno puĂ² dire: «GesĂ¹ è Signore!», se non sotto l'azione dello Spirito Santo.
Vi sono diversi carismi, ma uno solo è lo Spirito; vi sono diversi ministeri, ma uno solo è il Signore; vi sono diverse attività , ma uno solo è Dio, che opera tutto in tutti. A ciascuno è data una manifestazione particolare dello Spirito per il bene comune.
Come infatti il corpo è uno solo e ha molte membra, e tutte le membra del corpo, pur essendo molte, sono un corpo solo, così anche il Cristo. Infatti noi tutti siamo stati battezzati mediante un solo Spirito in un solo corpo, Giudei o Greci, schiavi o liberi; e tutti siamo stati dissetati da un solo Spirito.
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S. PAUL - from 1st Corinthians: (Excerpt)
..........., Jews or Greeks, slave or free, we were all baptized by one Spirit.
(In those "all", we like it or not, there are also Roma!)
In that regard, many do not know that the Rom have given a saint to the Church:
"A gypsy on the altars! Ceferino Jiménez Malla"El Pelé "de Benavent was born in Lleida in 1861 and shot at the cemetery Barbastro in the summer of 1936. In the early months of bloody civil war that Spain was arrested for defending a priest at the time clutching a rosary. It is the first Gypsy blessed in church history, proclaimed May 4, 1997 by John Paul II in Rome. The news has caused some surprise and revived in us the memory and the discomfort felt by the encounter with the gypsies on the street.
I reconnected S. Paul to the Rom also the recent news stories relating to the employment of the Basilica of St. Paul by the Roma that were later assisted by Caritas
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Two girls singing opera on the street during Edinburgh's Fringe Festival 2007. This was taken on the Roayl Mile.
Death Valley Junction California would be a ghost town if it wasn’t for the sparkling white Spanish Colonial style hotel and adjoining opera house at its center. The stats for the town are stark: gas stations-0, auto repair shops-0, bars-0, convenience stores-0, hotel-1, opera house-1, Cafes (associated with Hotel and open on weekends only)-1. These are unusual commercial stats for any town. Originally named Amargosa, the town started as a result of borax mining in the area. Located at the terminus of the Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad, it soon had a population of 350 people, which was a good size for a remote desert town. Pacific Coast Borax Company constructed a U-shaped complex of Spanish Colonial style adobe buildings to house the company offices, store, dormitory, a twenty-three room hotel, dining room, lobby, and employees' headquarters. The buildings designed by architect Alexander Hamilton McCulloch became the center of town. A recreation hall, called Corkhill Hall, was built at the northeast end of the complex. A multipurpose facility, the building served as a community center and was used for dances, town meetings, as well as, church services, movies, and even funerals. Other structures and business were added to town. A large gas station across from the hotel provided gas for haul trucks and motorists adventurous enough to come out this far into the desert. Repair shops not only for haul trucks and cars but for railroad cars too opened for business. Soon stores, bar and other businesses opened and the town thrived. In the late1920s, the hotel served as a very nice place to stay for company executives and visiting investors. After what was a long hot train ride they were often met at the train by white-gloved valets who took them to the hotel.
Then the Great Depression, changes in mining locations and activity and World War II took its toll on the town. In 1942, the Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad ceased to be economical. The tracks were torn up completely and sent to build a railroad to aid the Allies military effort in Egypt. Once the railroad stopped, the town slowly fell into disrepair. The town was renamed to Death Valley Junction with the hope of attracting tourists on the way to then Death Valley National Monument, but the decay of the town continued. Then in the spring of 1967, Marta Becket and her husband found themselves stuck with a flat tire near the town of Amargosa. While her husband attended to the tire, Marta wandered through the town. She soon found the old recreation hall. Drawn to it, she moved to town, and settled down. Marta, a dancer and performer her whole life, began performing shows in the Corkhill Hall which she renamed the Amagorsa Opera House. She painted murals on the walls and, after a 1970 National Geographic article, her performances became quite famous. Her last performance was in 2012 and she passed away in 2017.
Before her death, Ms. Becket established the nonprofit Amargosa Opera House, Inc. to continue preservation of the property. The nonprofit owns the town of Death Valley Junction, which is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Though Marta is gone who legacy is carried by others who continue to perform in the Opera House..
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On a sunny day in Paris, I thought it best to spend some of my time indoors so I could get away from the heat and harsh light, and hopefully take a few photos.
I therefore headed over to the Palais Garnier to check out their beautiful interior. It was a little crowded, so getting a shot of their grand staircase without people was never going to happen. I sat on the steps to the balcony you see in this image, waiting for that moment when the stairs may suddenly become free from all of the couples posing and tour groups learning. As this woman stood to admire the view I realised that I didn’t really have to focus on the stairs at all, and could instead block the majority of people out by using the balcony, and that this woman standing there was probably the ideal focal point for the image. So I grabbed a quick shot before she moved.
Voila, a location I felt had no real promise due to the masses of people was suddenly presenting an image to me. I’m very pleased with the results.
I did have to get rid of 5 people from the shots on the stairs and other balconies, but luckily the place is pretty symmetrical so I was able to cut elements of the architecture, about an inch at a time, from one side of the building and flip it over to the other side to cover the people, and then mask it in to the original architecture. Turned out okay.
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Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge from Mrs Macquaries Chair. This is one of my favourite Sydney shots I have taken, what do you think?
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Took this along the walkway around the Park Hyatt Hotel. I had heard that the Pacific Jewel, the cruise boat we were due to board later in the day, was due to dock around 7am. I was up ealy and at Circular Quay before then ready to get some photos of it passing the Opera House and going under the bridge. I was sure I had not missed it and that it was running a bit late so walked around this area taking plenty of photos of the Opera House from many different angles while I waited. I saw the reflection in the glass of this hotel on my third walk along this boardwalk.
It turned out the boat had docked ahead of schedule so I had missed it.