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The Palais Garnier, also known as the Opéra de Paris or Opéra Garnier, but more commonly as the Paris Opéra, is a 2,200-seat opera house on the Place de l'Opéra in Paris, France. A grand landmark designed by Charles Garnier in the Neo-Baroque style, it is regarded as one of the architectural masterpieces of its time.
The building is located in the 9th arrondissement of Paris and is served by the metro station Opéra.
Upon its inauguration in 1875, the opera house was officially named the Académie Nationale de Musique - Théâtre de l'Opéra. It retained this title until 1978 when it was re-named the Théâtre National de l'Opéra de Paris.
In 1896, one of the counter-weights for the grand chandelier fell, killing one. This, as well as the underground lake, cellars and other elements of the Opera House, inspired Gaston Leroux in 1909 to write his classic Gothic novel, The Phantom of the Opera.
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Opéra Garnier, ook wel Palais Garnier genoemd, is een operagebouw in Parijs, gebouwd tussen 1861 en 1875.
Opéra Garnier is in 1861 ontworpen door de architect Charles Garnier in opdracht van Napoleon III. Het gebouw zou worden geopend in 1871, maar als gevolg van de Frans-Duitse oorlog werd de opening uitgesteld tot 5 januari 1875. Het interieur is rijkelijk voorzien van bladgoud, fresco's en marmer. Het plafond is in 1964 beschilderd door Marc Chagall. De stijl is neobarok, eclectisch en potsierlijk extravagant te noemen.
Dit is het grootste operagebouw ter wereld met een oppervlakte van ruim 11.000 m².
Het gebouw is onder meer bekend doordat Het spook van de opera (een roman van Gaston Leroux) zich er afspeelt. Er worden tegenwoordig vooral balletvoorstellingen gehouden; de operafunctie is grotendeels overgenomen door Opéra Bastille.
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...
The Sydney Opera House is a multi-venue performing arts centre in Sydney, Australia. It is one of the 20th century's most famous and distinctive buildings.
Designed by Danish architect Jørn Utzon, the building was formally opened on 20 October 1973 after a gestation beginning with Utzon's 1957 selection as winner of an international design competition. The government of New South Wales, led by the premier, Joseph Cahill, authorised work to begin in 1958 with Utzon directing construction. The government's decision to build Utzon's design is often overshadowed by circumstances that followed, including cost and scheduling overruns as well as the architect's ultimate resignation.
The building and its surrounds occupy the whole of Bennelong Point on Sydney Harbour, between Sydney Cove and Farm Cove, adjacent to the Sydney central business district and the Royal Botanic Gardens, and close by the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
Though its name suggests a single venue, the building comprises multiple performance venues which together are among the busiest[citation needed] performing arts centres – hosting well over 1,500 performances annually, attended by more than 1.2 million people. Performances are presented by numerous performing artists, including four resident companies: Opera Australia, The Australian Ballet, the Sydney Theatre Company and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. As one of the most popular visitor attractions in Australia, more than eight million people visit the site annually, and approximately 350,000 visitors take a guided tour of the building each year. The building is managed by the Sydney Opera House Trust, an agency of the New South Wales State Government.
On 28 June 2007, the Sydney Opera House became a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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The Sydney Opera House is a multi-venue performing arts centre on Bennelong Point in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It was conceived and largely built by Danish architect Jørn Utzon, who, in 2003, received the Pritzker Prize, architecture's highest honour. The citation stated:
“There is no doubt that the Sydney Opera House is his masterpiece. It is one of the great iconic buildings of the 20th century, an image of great beauty that has become known throughout the world – a symbol for not only a city, but a whole country and continent.”
The Opera House was made a UNESCO World Heritage Site on 28 June 2007. As of 2009, it is the most recently constructed World Heritage Site to be designated as such, sharing this distinction with such ancient landmarks as Stonehenge and the Giza Necropolis. It is one of the 20th century's most distinctive buildings and one of the most famous performing arts centres in the world.
Every opera house is haunted by ghosts: victims of exposure, murder, suicide, drowning, a broken heart, curses, martyrdom, an avalanche (1), and just plain bad luck. Kings, queens, clerics, artists, philosophers, peasants, gypsies, heroes, heroines -- none are spared.
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
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
This is what performers see when on stage at the Detroit Opera House. 2700 people looking at you!
The Detroit Opera House is an ornate theater located in Downtown Detroit, Michigan. The 2,700-seat venue is the home of productions of the Michigan Opera Theater and a variety of other events. The theater was originally designed by C. Howard Crane, who created other prominent theaters in Detroit including The Fillmore Detroit, the Fox Theater and the Detroit Symphony's Orchestra Hall. It opened on January 22, 1922. The building underwent an extensive restoration which took place in the 1990s. It reopened in 1996.
Over the years, the theater has gone through several name changes, being:
Capitol Theater (1922–1929)
Paramount Theater (1929–1934)
Broadway Capitol Theater (1934–1960s)
Grand Circus Theater (1960s–1985)
My thanks go out to Gary the Longelistener, who works here, and gave me a spectacular tour of the place from stage to roof.
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 ...
It may be easy to overlook the simple fact that there are generally at least two strangers implicated in each of the portraits in a 100 Strangers project. One of them is the photographer who is just as unknown to his subject as this person was too him minutes before.
In the case of my encounter with Laurent, as a tourist stepping out with his wife of a plane just landed at Charles De Gaulle airport, I clearly felt I was the stranger as I stepped onto the RER B light train towards the center of Paris. It was still morning and we hadn’t slept on the overnight flight. I had no plans to dish out my camera of my luggage at that point.
Laurent hadn’t slept either. He had booked some time ahead a flight at a bargain price to attend an opera by Leoš Janáček at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and had flown back at night. Being a freelance worker, he was returning home in Paris.
I’m not sure how we started conversing. Perhaps he was the one who turned to us because of our Québécois accents. Laurent said he visited Montréal a few years ago and cycled hundreds of kilometers in the province of Québec, at first alone in Abitibi and at a later point towards the Lac St-Jean region with French friends. He actually would like to come back.
After we had been chatting for a while, I thought this was a lovely start to our short European vacation as Laurent had spontaneously shown sympathy towards us. It was a moment well worth recording, even though a train wagon is not the ideal photo studio. Working from seat to seat with a fixed focal length was also a challenge.
I’d like to thank Laurent for accepting that I publish this portrait.
This photo is part of my 100 strangers project. Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the 100 Strangers Flickr Group page www.flickr.com/groups/100strangers/
Il peut être facile d'oublier le fait tout simple qu'il y a généralement au moins deux étrangers d’impliqués dans chacun des portraits d’un projet de 100 photos d’inconnus. L'un d'eux est le photographe qui est tout aussi inconnu à son sujet que cette personne dont il ignorait lui même l’existence quelques minutes auparavant.
Dans le cas de ma rencontre avec Laurent, alors que mon épouse et moi sortions à peine d'un avion à l'aéroport Charles De Gaulle en tant que touristes, je sentais bien que j’étais l’étranger lorsque je suis monté sur le RER B pour me rendre au centre de Paris. Il était assez tôt le matin et nous n’avions pas dormi sur le vol de nuit. Je ne pensais aucunement que je sortirais mon appareil photo de mes bagages à ce moment-là.
Laurent n'avait pas dormi lui non plus. Il avait réservé un certain temps à l’avance à un prix avantageux sa place sur un vol afin d’assister à un opéra de Leoš Janáček au Deutsche Oper Berlin. Il débarquait justement du vol de retour nocturne. Étant travailleur indépendant, il rentrait chez lui à Paris.
Je ne suis pas sûr de me rappeler comment nous avons commencé à converser. Peut-être était-ce lui qui s’était adressé à nous à cause de nos accents québécois. Laurent nous a dit qu'il avait visité Montréal il y a quelques années puis pédalé des centaines de kilomètres au Québec, d'abord seul en Abitibi, puis ensuite jusqu’au Lac St-Jean avec des amis français. Il aimerait bien pouvoir revenir.
Après que nous avions eu discuté pendant un certain temps, je me suis dit que cette rencontre avec Laurent qui avait spontanément montré la sympathie envers nous constituait un bon début à nos courtes vacances européennes. Un tel moment vaut bien une photo, même si un wagon de train ne constitue pas le studio idéal. Faire une prise de vue d'un siège à l’autre avec un objectif à longueur focale fixe représentait aussi un certain défi.
Je tiens à remercier Laurent d'avoir accepté que je publie ce portrait.
Cette photo fait partie de mon projet 100 Strangers (100 inconnus). Apprenez en plus sur ce type de projet et voyez les photos d’autres photographes à www.flickr.com/groups/100strangers/
View of the city hall and opera house in Greensboro.
Digital Collection:
North Carolina Postcards
Publisher:
American News Co., New York, N.Y.;
Date:
1910
Location:
Greensboro (N.C.); Guilford County (N.C.);
Collection in Repository
Durwood Barbour Collection of North Carolina Postcards (P077); collection guide available
online at www.lib.unc.edu/ncc/pcoll/77barbour/77barbour.html
It has been a year and half since my wife and I took our last vacation! This time our moto was "go big or go home" and as the stars aligned for vacation times and work schedules we found ourselves shooting for a January vacation. We weighed the options and Australia, being their summer, seemed like a great choice. We planned, saved, and dreamed and months later, on a hot summer morning in January at 6am I found myself in front of the opera house in awe! I was realizing what seemed liked a totally crazy idea months before had really come true. I was in front of the opera house and it was beautiful!
The city was just starting to wakeup, and people were out for their daily runs and doing boxing workouts in the park! It was wonderful to see the city start to come alive! I tried so hard to take it all in. The smells, the sounds, and the feeling of the wind coming off the water. It was a moment I'll never forget!
How it was done:
Canon 5d mkII, 16-35mm II
35mm, F11, ISO 50, 196 sec (3min 15sec)
This photo was achieved use a Lee Big Stopper Filter, with a modified Coken Zpro Filter Holder. Only basic adjustments in Lightroom after import to achieve final look.
The above shot is the Oslo Opera House in Norway. I visited Oslo just a few weeks before the mass shooting occurred and sometime before midsummer celebration. The nights were short and daylight was long. It was quite enjoyable and relaxing to shoot during blue hour as i didnt have to rush to get my shots due to the fact that the blue hour was basically the whole night.
The Opera House is the home of the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet and also the national opera theatre in Norway. It looks like a flat iceberg shape with inclined white lines. I went up the slope to its roof to get a view from above and somehow the seamless transition from wall to ceiling reminded me of skate parks. This place is surely a heaven for skaters plus i dont see any guards patrolling around this area.
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Digital Blending \ DRI
Manually blended from 3 exposures +/-2 EV
Shot @11mm, aperture of f/11 with ISO value of 200
Post processing and Adjustments in Photoshop CS4
The Sydney Opera House is an expressionist modern design, with a series of large precast concrete 'shells', each taken from a hemisphere of the same radius, forming the roofs of the structure. The Opera House covers 1.8 hectares (4.5 acres) of land. It is 183 metres (605 feet) long and about 120 metres (388 feet) wide at its widest point. It is supported on 580 concrete piers sunk up to 25 metres below sea level. Its power supply is equivalent for a town of 25,000 people. The power is distributed by 645 kilometres of electrical cable. -thank you wikipedia!
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
This is actually the first R8 V8 Spyder I got pictures of. The driver is a salesman of the local Audi Dealership. Took this picture infront of the very impressive opera of Leipzig.
Built 1903 and designed by Frank Matcham (who also did London Palladium, Coliseum and Richmond Theatre) .
Cantonese opera is one of the major categories in Chinese opera, originating in southern China's Cantonese culture. It is popular in Guangdong, Guangxi, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore and Malaysia. Like all versions of Chinese opera, it is a traditional Chinese art form, involving music, singing, martial arts, acrobatics, and acting.
Grand escalier / The grand stairway. Charles Garnier long reflected on the design of the Grand Stairway for the new Opera. In the end, he drew inspiration from the Grand-Thétre in Bordeaux. The steps, which go from concave to convex, are made of white marble from Seravezza (Italy). They hug the curve of the onyx balustrade, the pedestal of which is in green marble from Sweden and the 128 balusters in antique red marble