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Ansonia, CT
November 2021
"Built at 100 Main Street in Ansonia in 1869-1870, the Ansonia Opera House served as the lower Naugatuck Velley’s premier theater and public hall until the Sterling Opera House was built in Derby in 1889. The Ansonia Opera House’s hall is on the third floor of the building, while stores are located on the first floor. Until 1910, the hall was run by a corporation called the Ansonia Hall Company, in which Jeremiah Bartholomew and his descendants held a controlling interest.
Connecticut’s oldest opera house, for sixty years it was the center of Ansonia’s civic and social activity and entertainment, including graduations, dances, recitals, basketball games and boxing matches. Sometime after 1896, additional windows were added to the building‘s second floor. In 1971, the state fire marshal’s office closed the hall to public assemblies. It was later rented out as a gym and then as storage space and is currently in need of restoration."
Even on a cloudy day, Sydney is a great place.
Here's a shot of that iconic building from The Rocks.
the National Theater (Narodni Divadlo) in Prague
I love theaters (opera theater the most) and wanted to take a shot from this position since ever but I never had the chance to do so.
This time was different: our lady guide was very nice and, differently from other guided tour of theaters I visited before (where visitors were secluded in a lateral viewing position) we could sit right in the middle of the parterre seating area
I took the last seat, aimed up, and here it is...
enjoy
The Opéra de Nice is the principal opera venue in Nice, France, which houses the Ballet Nice Méditerrannée and the Nice Philharmonic Orchestra. It offers three types of performances: operas, ballets and classical music concerts
Moving Methafora. This art work, by Artist Franco Angelosante, is a cube- rotating world map, a form of metaphoric sense of contemporary life. What’s becoming to the human’s world? The shot was taken during a show named “Technology Art, l'Universo, l'Uomo, il Mito”, in L’Aquila, august 2005, during the "Celestinian Perdonanza".
Metafora in movimento. L'opera, dell'Artista Franco Angelosante, è un cubo-mappamondo rotante, che rimanda a metaforici significati di aspetti della vita contemporanea. Come diventerà il Mondo degli Umani? La ripresa è avvenuta durante una mostra intitolata "Technology Art", l'Universo, l'Uomo, il Mito", tenutasi ad agosto 2005 all'Aquila, durante la Perdonanza Celestiniana. La figura umana a sinistra, mentre legge i pannelli didascalici a testa bassa, manifesta solitudine e ...
This shot is from my collection taken at the Vivid Festival in Sydney. www.vivid.com.au A great event that began last year and has been taken to another level this year!
Some call for this building to be a wonder of the world. I don't know if I agree but it sure is impressive.
What impresses me most is when you're close enough to touch it you realise it is covered in tiles no bigger than my hand!
For a BIGGER impact make sure you view LARGE on black!... it's well worth it!
I'll try to describe it: Canon 5D III, 17-40 F4L Approx a 30 second exposure downloaded to Aperture. Downloaded from my photostream to my ipad then edited in Reflections App, then touched up again in Photoshop Express. Hence no Exif info.
This building once housed Swampland Opera in Toomsboro, Georgia.
"In 1975 Joe Boone, a former Georgia House of Representatives clerk and member of the prominent local Boone family of lawyers, politicians, and newspapermen who owned much of Toomsboro, cleaned up an old store in the middle of town as a place where he and his friends could gather and play country and gospel music. Mills sat in on piano on opening night. Boone called it the Swampland Opera House, and within weeks people were coming from nearby counties to have a steak at the restaurant next door and set up folding chairs at the theater for Saturday performances. Admission was anything you cared to put in the hat. An annual Syrup Festival, named after the local sorghum syrup mill, grew around the music venue in the 1980s and 1990s. Even after Joe Boone died in 1996, a group of locals formed a nonprofit to keep the show onstage."
"But by the end of the century, the vacant properties were too expensive to maintain, and the remaining Boones, now living in Tennessee, were ready to divest their holdings. In November 2000, the opera house, the hotel, the restaurant, the train depot, the syrup mill, the cotton warehouse, the bank, and several other buildings all went up for auction." From Atlanta Magazine Article found at www.atlantamagazine.com/news-culture-articles/toomsboro-f....
A quote about opera from the Terry Pratchett book Maskerade. The quote is not exact to what's in the book, as I only listen to the book on tape and got this quote online and couldn't check it against the original text.
blogged: workthatneedle.blogspot.com/2011/07/apologies-for-absence...
Wilhelm Riphahn, Architect
When it became apparent that there was a lot of renovation-work to be done on the opera, and especially after it was given a price-tag, voices became loud which said, "for that much money we could almost build a new one."
Well, it seems that these were exactly the words that somebody said after WW2, when the condition of the damaged 'old' opera house on Rudolfplatz was scrutinized. The result is pictured above, and there is now a hotel on Rudolfplatz.
Anyway, the decision was positive, in that this structure will be completely refurbished and the neighboring theatre (Schauspielhaus) will be razed and a new structure with new concept will be built in its place (whether that is positive remains to be seen!!)
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Un baile exótico y oriental en que a través de un rapido movimiento el bailarin se cambia la máscara durante una función de ópera china
I thought I would point my new camera at my favourite subject. I must confess I quite like the result.
View with B l a c k M a g i c
Whilst shooting Australia day in the city I couldn't resist a detailed photo of the opera house sails. I hadn't shot the opera house before, but I had the shot in my head that I wanted to create from here and the light was just what I needed...
ArTurbina Teatri Eksperimental
This building aims to preserve the memory of the old building and turn it into a turbine that produces art, hence the name of art + turbine. Almost all building spaces are multifunctional. Together with the new public square, arTurbina will form an endless art platform.
In the most conspicuous upper corner, stands a transparent cylinder, which creates one of the most suggestive building elements for visitors and artists. The cylinder has served as the artistic signal of many art events so far.
The entrance hall is reserved not only for the bar, but is also easily adapted for exhibitions, ceremonies and other activities.